Selected Articles on ImmigrationH.W. Wilson Company, 1915 - 315 páginas |
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Página 36
... supply of labor to that expansion . As a class the new immigrants are largely unskilled laborers coming from countries where their highest wage is small com- pared with the lowest wage in the United States . Nearly 75 per- Icent of them ...
... supply of labor to that expansion . As a class the new immigrants are largely unskilled laborers coming from countries where their highest wage is small com- pared with the lowest wage in the United States . Nearly 75 per- Icent of them ...
Página 38
... supply of cheap labor existed in Europe was taken advantage of for the purpose of expanding the industries , can not well be demonstrated . Whatever may be the truth in this regard , it is certain that southern and eastern European ...
... supply of cheap labor existed in Europe was taken advantage of for the purpose of expanding the industries , can not well be demonstrated . Whatever may be the truth in this regard , it is certain that southern and eastern European ...
Página 39
... supply of unskilled labor , and in some of the industries this is reflected in a curtailed number of working days and a consequent yearly income among the unskilled workers which is very much less than is indicated by the daily wage ...
... supply of unskilled labor , and in some of the industries this is reflected in a curtailed number of working days and a consequent yearly income among the unskilled workers which is very much less than is indicated by the daily wage ...
Página 41
... supply is preferable to a very rapid industrial expansion which results in the immigra- tion of laborers of low standards and efficiency , who imperil the American standard of wages and conditions of employment . The commission agrees ...
... supply is preferable to a very rapid industrial expansion which results in the immigra- tion of laborers of low standards and efficiency , who imperil the American standard of wages and conditions of employment . The commission agrees ...
Página 42
... supply emigrants with copies of such records , and that thereafter immigrants from such countries should be admitted to the United States only upon the production of proper certificates showing an absence of convictions for excludable ...
... supply emigrants with copies of such records , and that thereafter immigrants from such countries should be admitted to the United States only upon the production of proper certificates showing an absence of convictions for excludable ...
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admitted agricultural aliens Ameri American standards Anglo-Saxon arrivals Asiatic assimilation Austria-Hungary become California census cent century cheap Chinese cities citizens civilization colonies coming common labor communities decade demand desirable distribution eastern Europe eastern Europeans economic effect Ellis Island emigration employees employment English evils exclude fact farm favor foreign foreign-born German grants gration head tax ideals ignorant illiteracy test illiterate immi important increase industrial institutions interests Irish Italian Japan Japanese land language large numbers legislation less literacy lower migration million mills moral nation native American native-born North American Review number of immigrants occupations old immigration opportunity Oriental paupers persons political population present problem question race racial reason recent immigrants residence restriction result Russian schools settled settlers Slav slums social South southern and eastern standard of living steamship tion United unskilled labor wage-earners wages workers York
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Página 301 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Página 262 - Whenever in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States or their residence therein, affects or threatens to affect the interests of that country, or to endanger the good order of the said country, or of any locality within the territory thereof, the Government of China agrees that the Government of the United States may regulate, limit, or suspend such coming or residence, but may not absolutely prohibit it.
Página 225 - An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States...
Página 263 - The subjects or citizens of each of the high contracting parties shall have liberty to enter, travel, and reside in the territories of the other...
Página 312 - You cannot be friends at all except upon the terms of honor. We must show ourselves friends by comprehending their interest whether it squares with our own interest or not.
Página 134 - God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting, Then had sifted the wheat, as the living seed of a nation...
Página 43 - And provided further, That skilled labor may be imported, if labor of like kind unemployed cannot be found in this country : And provided further, That the provisions of this law applicable to contract labor shall not be held to exclude professional actors, artists, lecturers, singers, ministers of any religious denomination, professors for colleges or seminaries, persons belonging to any...
Página 263 - This understanding contemplates that the Japanese Government shall issue passports to continental United States only to such of its subjects as are non-laborers, or are laborers who, in coming to the continent, seek to resume a formerly acquired domicile, to join a parent, wife, or children residing there, to assume the active control of an already possessed interest in a farming enterprise in this country...
Página 44 - As far as possible, the aliens excluded should be those who come to this country with no intention to become American citizens or even to maintain a permanent residence here, but merely to save enough, by the adoption, if necessary, of low standards of living, to return permanently to their home country. Such persons are usually men unaccompanied by wives or children.
Página 263 - ... other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detri-ment of labor conditions therein, the President...