MIGRATION PROBLEMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 45, 22 January 1926, Page 7

MIGRATION PROBLEMS.

COMING LABOUR CONGRESS.

GATHERING IN MAY,

LONDON, Jan. 21. Details of the coming World Labour Congress on migration are disclosed by the Daily Herald’s Paris correspondent. It appears that tho organisation of the congress, which will open in London on May 18, was discussed yesterday by a joint committee consisting of Messrs Merens, Jouhaux and Brown, on behalf of Labour and tho Socialist International, and Mr Cramp and M. Debrouokere, on behalf of the International Federation of Trade Unions. It was decided to issue invitations to affiliated national Labour organisations, also to Labour movements in other countries interested in the problem, such ns Japan, China, India and the United States and Mexico. The joint committee will submit a long report on the importance and perils arising out of the migration of the yellow races in the Far East, and dealing with the economic as well as tho racial aspect. The report will also deal with. European migration problems, as instanced by the fact that the foreign population in Franco is estimated at present to be at least two millions, of whom half are said to bo Italian. Mr Cramp cpme to London last night.—A. and N.Z. cable. AMERICAN QUOTAS. SEVERAL ALREADY EXHAUSTED. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. Tho State Department has announced that 17 countries have already exhausted the current immigration quota, while 50 have balances. Australia, with a quota or 121, still has 67. New Zealand, with a quota oi 100, has 33. Yap and Afghanistan are the only countries which have not sent immigrants to the United States during the present fiscal year, each having a quota of 100. —A. and N.Z. cable.