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Show THE OGDEN STAN WOULD CHANGE ALIEN LAWS Labor Department Urges Enrollment of All Foreigners WASHINGTON, Dec 4.-The application of the present American immigration policy ard proposed alterations in that policy constitute ! a large part of the material on which the labor department's an-J nual report, as made public today : by Secretary Davis, is based. Three salient changes in immigration practice are suggested by j ' Mr. Davis. The first would appiy ; to citizens of Canada, Mexico and I other North American countries ! outside the United States the quota j ; restrictions now governing the entrance of aliens from other lands, j The second- would allow temporary j ! mfcrease in the admission of aliens ! in times of established and particularized labor shortage in the Unit- ] ed States, and permit administrative restriction of all immigration under existing legal iimits in times of unemployment. The third major proposal would require the j registration and enrollment of all ; aliens admitted to the country. URGES SAFETY. Along with the discussion of these points, however, Mr. Davis deals at considerable length with ; the department's other work in- : eluding mediation in labor dis- putes, the assembling of thq sta-! tistics of wages and commodity costs, assisting employment, and supervising naturalization. With respect to these domestic functions of j the department, he stresses particularly the necessity for expansion of the collection of labor statistics re- j lating to accident rate3 and safety in industry and urges that the pres- j ent federal employment service be placed on a more permanent basis j as "insurance against unemploy- ; ment." ! In presenting his immigration j I recommendations, Mr. Davis cites j statistics shewing that, while the present law allows a quota immigration into the United States of I but .164,000 persons a year from countries exclusive of North America, non-quota provisions affecting realtives of aliens already in the United States, and foreigners coming under professional, educational; and commercial status classifications, make it possible for a much j greater number of aliens to enter the country. ALIENS SMUGGLED. The present large inflow of im- j migrants from Canada and Mexico, ! unrestricted by the lav so far as native citizens of theee countries j' are concerned, is putting a pre- mium, says Mr. Davis, on "bootleg- ' ging of aliens.'' Europeans in large numbers gaining entrance to ; those countries, he asserts, are being smuggled unlawfully to the! United States, and he believes that i placing them under the quota provisions of the law would allow ef- ; fective steps to be taken to shut out the evaders. The expense of regulating immigration into the United States, Mr. Davis reports, amounted to $3,732,315 in the fiscal year 1924. but was more than met by receipts .from taxes on immigrants, fines! and other income of the depart-! ment, which totalled $6,334,756. j "We have taken steps toward se- . lective immigration in the act of 1924," Secretary Davis said in sum- ; marizing his departmental recom- j mendations. "Ws should go the whole way and make sure that all j applicants for admission are quali- I fied before they have their homes. ! We should make our quota law ap-' plicable to Canada, Mexico and Central and South America, thus closing a door whicn now invites the activities of the smuggler ol' aliens. We should piovide for the admission regardless of quota limitation of farmers and skilled ani inskilled laborers needed in the United States when iabor of like kind cannot be found unemployed in this country, and when no strike or lockout exists or impends ,n the industry which needs sucn iabor. To balance this, the president should be given power to prohibit or further limit immigration whenever unemployment in this country makes such suspension desirable. "Vre should proceed to humanize our immigration laws, wherever that is possible Our laws should not operate to keep mem- j bers of families apart. ENROLL ALIENS. "Further we need a complete revision and codification of our natu- ralization laws. To du this 1 would I provide for the annua.' enrollment ! of our alien population, and through this enrollment would provide means of educating every j alien in American customs, our language, our ideals and our institutions. It is true that this enroll- ment plan would enable us co ; know the alien who is here in vio- latioil of our laws. We should I know them. This plan is probably ! the only available means of put- j fmg an end- to the scandalous boot- ; legging of aliens through our sea- i ports and over our borders." The United States employment j service, Mr. Davis says, is "by co- : operating with and co-ordinating ! public employment offices through- 1 out the country, to a limited extent, bringing together the maniess job and the jobless man." "General sentiment has crystal- : lized into beiief thaT this under- : taking is an important function of the federal government," he adds. "In my opinion, the service should be made a statutory nureau of the department of labor." The record of the department in seeking settlement of industrial dis- ! putes is illustrated by Mr. Davis with a series of detailed accounts of situations considered, .and he : asks that more money be appropriated to "make the conciliation service still more effective as the in- ! dustrial peace-making agency of the government." ACCIDENT TOLL. "It is time to get down to facts in our effort to make industry safe for America," he says in introducing 4his proposals relating to the bureau of labor statistics. "Our whole struggle for safety in in- : dustry from a national point of views, is a fight in a fog. We do ; not realize that no human being 1 on the face of the earth today can tell within thousands how many American workers were killed in i industry last year. The American people are entitled to know-exactly i what price they pay in human life i and lim for prosperity. 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