Immigration and Labor: Hearings ...on H.R. 7826 and H.R. 11730 |
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... statement of mine is a fact ? Mr. TWYEFFORT . I would like to broaden out that subject a little . I would perhaps , individual in making this statement , but I am a firm believer , Mr. Chairm and members of the committee , I am a firm ...
... statement of mine is a fact ? Mr. TWYEFFORT . I would like to broaden out that subject a little . I would perhaps , individual in making this statement , but I am a firm believer , Mr. Chairm and members of the committee , I am a firm ...
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... statement , but we have one of our members who has some evidence to submit to you on that . Mr. RAKER . You say there are none of the young men preparing for or coming into this line of work at those prices ? Mr. TWYEFFORT . Yes , sir ...
... statement , but we have one of our members who has some evidence to submit to you on that . Mr. RAKER . You say there are none of the young men preparing for or coming into this line of work at those prices ? Mr. TWYEFFORT . Yes , sir ...
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... statement , and I know it is true , that t !! propaganda has gone abroad that there are no more admissions . Mr. RAKER . That is good propaganda . But there are 12,473 yet to come fro Sweden from December 20 this year up to June 30 ...
... statement , and I know it is true , that t !! propaganda has gone abroad that there are no more admissions . Mr. RAKER . That is good propaganda . But there are 12,473 yet to come fro Sweden from December 20 this year up to June 30 ...
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... statement from those who consider it impossible for a man to come here with his family after selling whatever he may possess over there and risking that with a possible return . As long as that condition will prevail , this condition ...
... statement from those who consider it impossible for a man to come here with his family after selling whatever he may possess over there and risking that with a possible return . As long as that condition will prevail , this condition ...
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... statement . But I do not think it applies on to our trade , but to almost all trades . I have mentioned steel , coal mining , and mig mention others that are in the same state we are in . Mr. WILSON . Your call is for skilled labor ? Mr ...
... statement . But I do not think it applies on to our trade , but to almost all trades . I have mentioned steel , coal mining , and mig mention others that are in the same state we are in . Mr. WILSON . Your call is for skilled labor ? Mr ...
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abroad admission admitted ALBERT JOHNSON aliens American Association BANFIELD boys CABLE cent CHAIRMAN citizens citizenship coming Committee on Immigration common labor Congress desirable eastern Europe economic Ellis Island EMERY emigration employed employees employment enrollment Europe fact FARBER Farm Bureau Federation foreign foreign-born Government immigration law increase industry Italians Italy January Jewish Jews KOHLER land large number LARKIN LAWTON legislation literacy test living MALONEY Manufacturers matter mean merchant tailors mills mines National organization passports PATTERSON percentage permit persons PIERCE Poland population present President problem question quota law race RAKER refugees REID Representatives restriction ROSENBERG Russia SABATH Secretary of Labor shortage of labor SIEGEL situation skilled labor statement steel tion to-day trade TRAUTMANN treaty TWYEFFORT unemployed United unskilled VAILE visé wages WALLACE WETZEL WHITE WILSON workers York
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Page 589 - Provided further /That whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, the President...
Page 565 - States, and, where such action may be necessary, to make a written record of such evidence ; and any person to whom such an oath has been administered under the provisions of this Act who shall knowingly or...
Page 562 - alien" wherever used in this Act shall include any person not a native-born or naturalized citizen of the United States ; but this definition shall not be held to include Indians of the United States not taxed or citizens of the islands under the jurisdiction of the United States. That the term
Page 501 - That the number of aliens of any nationality who may be admitted under the immigration laws to the United States in any fiscal year shall be limited to 3 per cent of the number of foreign-born persons of such nationality resident in the United States as determined by the United States census of 1910.
Page 374 - And provided further, That the provisions of this law applicable to contract labor shall not be held to exclude professional actors, artists, lecturers, singers, ministers of any religious denomination, professors for colleges or seminaries, persons belonging to any recognized learned profession, or persons employed strictly as personal or domestic servants.
Page 565 - Certified copies of all papers, documents, certificates, and records required to be used, filed, recorded, or kept under any and all of the provisions of this act shall be admitted in evidence equally with the originals in any and all proceedings under this act and in all cases in which the originals thereof might be admissible as evidence.
Page 490 - Japanese themselves prevented any emigration to our country of their laboring people, it being distinctly understood that if there was such emigration the United States would at once pass an exclusion law. It was of course infinitely better that the Japanese should stop their own people from coming rather than that we should have to stop them; but it was necessary for us to hold this power in reserve. Unfortunately, after I left office...
Page 565 - Act, or to the various Acts relative to the compilation of the Official Register, such persons as he may deem advisable and from time to time fix, raise, or decrease their compensation. He may draw...
Page 565 - Act $100,000, or as much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended for the salaries and expenses of persons so employed and for expenses incident to such employment ; and the accounting officers of the Treasury shall pass to the credit of the proper disbursing officer expenditures from said sum without itemized account whenever the Secretary of Labor certifies that an itemized account would not be for the best interests of the Government...
Page 565 - ... an oath has been administered under the provisions of this act who shall knowingly or willfully give false evidence or swear to any false statement in any way affecting or in relation to the right of any alien to admission to the United States shall be deemed guilty of perjury and be punished as provided by section fifty-three hundred and ninety-two, United States Revised Statutes.