LABOUR FOR AMERICA
IMMIGRATION QUESTION:
WASHINGTON, April 18.
Officials at the. White House have given out that President Harding agrees with the statement of the head of the United States Steel Corporation, that a serious labour shortage is threatened through the immigration law. President Harding admits' that if. the situation becomes acute, it may be advisable to admit skilled labourers in excess of the quotas, but declares there ia no question of throwing wide open tha gates at the demand of employers, and at the expense of the best interests of the country. In a letter to President Harding, Mr Davis, the Secretary for Labour, says that in view of the demand for labour it is inevitable that there will be an agitation in some quarters for the lifting if the immigration restrictions, “it is ..'unnecessary to point put the evil of throwing open the gates at a time of prosperity in order to flood the country with workers and non-workers, whose very presence would serve to bring that prosperity to an end.
“It is a short-sighted policy to seek cheap labour through immigration. It has been my experience since the days when I worked in the mills that cheap labour is expensive labour.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18851, 2 May 1923, Page 7
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204LABOUR FOR AMERICA Otago Daily Times, Issue 18851, 2 May 1923, Page 7
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