UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.

Free Lance, Volume XVIII, Issue 971, 27 February 1919, Page 8

UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.

Keep Them Out

AMERICA has long been very "fulE. up" of the criminal anarchists of the I.W.W. brotherhood, and is now taking steps to clear them out of the country. Several thousands of thesesocial pests are, so a Washington cable informs us, to be deported. Similarly, England seems to have awakened, to the folly and danger of allowing the foreign Bolshevik and anarchist scum, to abuse English liberties and plot, mischief against the very community which has in the past given refuge to* the victims of continental autocracies and tyrannies. London alone is_ said to have 20,000 Bolsheviks, the majority of whom are Russians. These are tobe cleared out neck and crop, and the wholesale purgation should be greatly to the benefit of the community. "With, the foreigners, we presume, will als© ; be deported the British section of the Bolshevik party, according to the cable $bout one-third of the party ,as a whole. The question now arises, where are all these mischievous, dangerous people,, people who are declared enemies of all law and order, to be deported to?

The Russians, we assume, will beshipped back to their own country, and there should be little chance of any of them finding their way to this Dominion. But how ab'out the Bolsheviks of British birth who are to be cleared out of England. P What of the--20,000 and more I.W.W. members and similar pests of whose objectionable presence and danger-laden propagandathe United States is to free herself? Is there not a danger of a large proportion of these worthies emigrating toAustralia and New Zealand? On this subject of undesirable immigration the National Government owes it, wethink, to the law-abiding and loyalist majority in this country, to make some definite announcement of its policy. Goodness only knows our own Revolutionary Socialists are a sufficiently dangerous menace to the industrial peace .and to the security of" society without their being reinforced by the arrival of thousands of eveis. yet more cranky and dangerous folkfrom over sea.