AMERICA'S RETURN.
'JAYo lmvp turned our backs on America only temporarily,".' say most of the emigrants arriving in Hamburg from the United States bound for their former homes in Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Russia. " Thoy assort that they find it 'wiser 1 to"flop-" from America',' during . tlie prevailing .' crisis, because thoy can' Hvo moVc cheaply' in Europe. Nine-tenths of thorn 'declare their • intention of recrossing tho ocean nxsnnn as ' the situation'becomes normal. ■ Others who liavo brought back: £-10 or so from:. America intend to begin a fresli cxistwico m thoir old homes. .
A 1 Hamburg authoilty on emigraiit problems declares thai the eotniiincd -oap.tal which the latter class represents'is : u considerable item, the loss of which 1 m'aj" easily make itself felt in tho United States. '• Tno Gorman authorities, after' medical tfxg'niination of tho arriving' eniinraiits; arc hurrying thorn' across country /to -ithtMr ultin'iatv' 'le-' stination.'with all ■ possibk>:dosn'atchi: in order that a labour crisis mny: ivof'.W precipitated by througs of them 'sctt.::ig , -(lown': , in tho Fatherland..
It' is . estimated •'Hhnt 200,000 ■'emigrants have already returned'to ICinopo .froirf'Anierica, and as 100,000,- who.- were ; intending to go to America, will now. stay at home.' aa alarming labour crisis is imminent '' '•••
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 121, 14 February 1908, Page 4
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197AMERICA'S RETURN. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 121, 14 February 1908, Page 4
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