The Immigration Problem: Or, America First. a Brief Treatise Explaining How Hundreds of Thousands of Foreign Cheap Laborers Are Annually Brought to ... Stringent Laws to Check This Growing Evil and - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917. Excerpt: ... WAGES SENT ABROAD. There is still another feature of this alien employment question which was forcibly brought to light during the panic of 1907-8 that those who are so shortsighted as to favor immigration, so-called, for economic reasons might do well to consider, and that is the vast amount of money sent out of the United States by these aliens. No less authority than the Congressional Immigration Commission is sponsor for the statement that $275,000,000 was sent abroad by immigrants in 1907, and further that "this estimate did not take into account the large sums carried abroad by returning immigrants." Think what this would mean in case the United States should get involved in war and these aliens--millions of them employed here--should elect to withdraw their earnings and send or take the same out of this country! Hourwich in discussing this subject, makes the statement that' Italian laborers save about 80 per cent of their wages." In the "Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor" we find the statement that "95 per cent of the Italian laborers save from $25 to $30 per month, or an average of more than $200 each, based on an employment of eight months in the year." Do these Italian laborers invest this money in the United States? Of course they do not--and every intelligent advocate of immigration knows this to be true. They take or send the major portion of this money to Italy and invest it there; and the same may be said of other alien laborers from Eastern Europe. Samuel Gompers tells us that the records of a postoffice in a township of Russian Poland show that 37 workmen who had emigrated from that township to the United States sent home in 1903 an average of $665 each, or a total of more than $24,000. At this rate, think what must be the amount of money s...