U.S. AND IMMIGRANTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 200, 24 August 1926, Page 7

U.S. AND IMMIGRANTS.

FLOW UNRESTRICTED. TOO MANY LABOURERS. NEW YORK, August 23. The present restrictive immigration law which, proved most effective in the first year of its operation, has begun to prove less effective in stemming the tide of incoming common and skilled labourers against whom it was pla'hned, according to an analysis of immigration statistics which has been issued by the National Industrial Conference Board. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 1925, there was a net loss of 15,106 common labourers and a gain of only 42,422 skilled labourers.

In the fiscal year ended June 30, 1926, there was a net gain of 10,436 common labourers and 47,147 skilled labourers. Moreover the total net gain in population in the 1920 period was 227,496, or 13 per cent more than in 1024-25, but 64 per cent less than in 1923-24, which was the last year before the present law became effective.

It is interesting to note that the influx of the professional classes from Europe has continued unabated ever since the Avar, and that apparently about one out of every 100 persons in Canada came to the United States to take up their residence here. The immigration from Canada in the year 1925-20 totalled 91,000, which was 900 less than in the previous year.— (A. and N.Z.)