IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 211, 24 August 1926, Page 5

IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS

LESS EFFECTIVE IN U.S. New York, Aug. 23. An indication that the present restrictive immigration law. while most effective in the first year of its operation, has begun to prove less potent in stemming the tide of incoming common and skilled labourers, against whom it was planned, is contained in an analysis of immigration statistics issued by the National Industrial Conference Board for the fiscal year ended June 30th. The 1925 annual period saw a rtet loss of 15,106 common labourers and a gain of only 42,422 skilled, while in the 1926 fiscal year there was a gain of 10,436 common and 47,147 skilled. Moreover, the total net gain in the population in 1926 was 227,496, or 13 per cent, over 1925, although 6-1 per cent, less than 1924. which was the last year before the present law became effective. It is interesting to note that the influx of professional classes from Sxxope has continued unabated ever since the war, and that apparently approximately one out of every hulldred persons in Canada came to take up residence in the United States in 1926, immigration from Canada being 91,000 or 900 less than in the previous year.—(A. and N.Z.)