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By International Labor News Service.
Indianapolis, Ind., July 4. America's
widespread interest in the question of
immigration, to which organized labor
has devoted much attention, was indi
cated by the great number of essays
submitted in the American Legion's
national essay contest n "Why Amer-i
ica Should Prohibit Immigration for'
Five Years."
More , than 350,000 high school pu-t
pils, representing every section of the"
country, submitted essays in the con
test. Three prizes, first, $750; second;
$500, 'and 'third, $250, were offered by,
the American Legion for the three best,
essays. The judges Were Raymond F.
Crist, United States commissioner of
immigration ; W. T. Bowden, assistant
commissioner of education, and Wil
liam Tyler Page, , clerk of the House
of Representatives.
The prize winners were as follows :
First prize, Sara R. Heysham, 17
years old, Norristown, Pa. ; second
prize, Florence Sweetman, 16 years
old, Rochester, N. Y.; third prize, By
ron Hill, 17 years old, Jackson, Tenn.
The first prize essay follows : , .
Why America Should Prohibit' Immi
gration for Five Year.
America has done nobly by the
stranger. From tie beginning she has
been a home for the oppressed. Class
distinction, social prejudices, differ
ences by birth, religion or ideas have
not been erected as barriers. A man
was recognized as a man "for a' that."
Nobly has our generosity been re
warded. In the conquest of the west
they have borne the burden. In the
crisis of the Civil War they stood by
the Union. In the development of
great public enterprises they have
done the rough work. Those who
came were our kinsmen. Men from
the British Isles and northern Europe.
Their ideals ' were readily adjusted to
our own.
But a change has taken place. The
character of the immigrant is dif
ferent. Now more come from south
ern Europe. Instead of joining in the
conquest of the west they congest our
already over-congested cities. They
come without money, without educa
tion and without standards of living.
Their ideals of government are alien
to our own.
The problem of our cities, always
serious, has become acute since the
World War. We are without suffi
cient houses for homes, which tends
to lower moral standards. Our schools
are inadequate to meet the growing
numbers, which breeds ignorance, vice
and crime. Huddled in districts they
live in America as though not 'in
America. Our laws are ignored and
strife is all too common.
Therefore for the sake of the
strangers who come to our shores as
well as for the best interests of those
who are already here and for the well
being of our homes and institutions
we ought to lock the gates against all
strangers for the next five years.
We owe it to the founders of this
Republic to guard the institutions and
alws we have inherited. We have . a
trust to preserve the Ship of State.
To load a boat beyond the law of safe
ty means the destruction of all.
We owe it to our homes to see that
the moral standards of society are
not lowered. To create abnormal
conditions that breed immorality is to
jeopardize the family.
We owe it to the future America
to guarantee an intelligent and con
tented citizenship. Every American
child must have an opportunity for
education in our public schools. Neith
er child labor nor ignorance can be
tolerated within our borders.
We owe it to all that is sacred in
life to preserve the religious ideal.
Sunday has a meaning in our history.
"Religion and morality" George Wash
ington declared to be "Indispensible
to prosperity.
To secure these blessings to our
selves, to the strangers within our
gates and civilization will require a
just measure of time. Five years of
self-discipline in the life of the nation
may mean the salvation of America
as well as the salvation of the world.
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The report of the Workers' Health
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uureau ior ine year lyj was pre
sented before the 50 delegates from
seven states gathered together at the
second annual convention of the
Workers' Health Bureau. The report
received the endorsement of the dele
gates,' who 'drew up a set of resolu
tions based on it and pledged them
selves to carry on the 'fight to protect
workers against health exploitation.
The activities of the Workers' Health
Bureau for the year 1923 showed these
delnite services rendered to the trade
union movement :
1. The painters of New York and
Connecticut were insured the forty-
hour week through evidence prepared
by the Workers' Health Bureau in its
report, "Health Facts in Support of the
Five-Day Week for Painters."
2. The bureau initiated and actively
participated in the campaign to amend
tne JNew York state compensation J
law, and make compensable diseases
resulting from exposure to:
1. Benzol poisoning.
2. Gasoline, benzine, naphtha pois
oning.
3. Infection or inflammation due to
cutting compounds, dusts or liquids,
fumes or gases. '
4. Fumes by chlorine, bromide or
iodine derivatives of petroleum pro
ducts, such as T. N. T.
5. Silicosis or lung injury due to
breathing in dangerous silica quartz
dust.
In the usual political shuffle the
benefits to the workers were ignored
and the bills were lost in the rules
committee, but as a direct result of
the bureau's efforts the state industrial
commission appointed a committee to
investigate the extent of benzol pois
oning and silicosis in New York.
3. The Danbury, Connecticut hat
ters, with the scientific information
furnished by the Workers' Health
Bureau, were able for the first time
to assist the members of their locals
in handling compensation claims, and
securing official consideration and at
tention. One of the most important
results of bringing these cases into the
open will be the pressure brought to
bear on the labor department for care
ful factory inspection in Danbury.
4. An active campaign was con
ducted in Wisconsin and Massachu
setts to combat the spray painting
evil.
The Workers Health Bureau was
called upon to supply the necessary
health facts to prove the increased
danger of poisoning from forcing out
poisonous paint materials under air
pressure. . The spray gun throws
poisonous paint spray and fumes in all
directions, and where the machine is
employed the air has been found to
contain from 27 to 83 times as much
lead as would poison a man. The
spray painting machine may be a time
saver, but the cost is paid by the
painter, whose health and life are at
stake.
5. The Workers' Health Bureau
drew up a set ,of minimum health
standards as a basis for negotiations
with employers and as a first step in
controlling working conditions.
Substantial gains have been made by
the painters of New York, after none
months' negotiations. The health
clause in their trade agreement now
provides for ventilation and rest per
iods, prohibition and regulation of ben
zol - and wood alcohol, and the regula
tion or elimination of other paint ma
terials injurious to health. This is the
first time in this industry in the United
States that health safeguards have
been secured by, direct negotiations I
with the employers.
6. The Workers' Health Bureau has
been instrumental in revising and in
troducing new state regualtions gov-
erning tne neaitn ana saieiy oi me
painters. In Massachusetts, at the re
quest of the state conference of paint
ers, the Workers' Health Bureau pre
pared a set of regulations to be adopt
ed in the state code. These regula
tions contained a special section de
voted to defining protective methods
for painters engaged in painting pub
lic works and buildings. Dry rubbing-
down has already been definitely pro
hibited. Safeguards won in Massa
rhn;ptt5 are bound to react to the
benefit of the trade in all sections of
the country. Uniform health regula
tions are now being prepared so that
they can be adopted in any state of
the Union.
Comprehensive studies of the health
problems of the hatting industry have
been made, showing the effect of mer
cury poisoning, chemical analyses of
dyes used in the hatting trade, sani
tary conditions in the shops, and
methods for improving these condi
tions. Similar studies have been made
for the painters.
A comprehensive study of the haz
ards of the glaziers and glass bevelers
trade is now being completed, based on
the medical records of 200 men exam
ined in the journeymen painters and
allied crafts health clinic. New York.
This is the first study of this industry
ever made in this country.
These are the concrete services ren
dered by the Workers' Health Bureau
to labor. To carry the work forward
labor should give the bureau its finan
cial and moral support.
Industrial Commissioner Shientag of
New York made a sound decision
when appealed to by organized labor
to disapprove an emergency certificate
applied for by the State Department
of Public Works to permit two 10
hour shifts of work daily on the .ter
minal elevator contract at Oswego.
Commissioner Shientag refused to
approve the certificate, pointings out
that the contractor could, if necessary
employ workers 24 hours a day on the
Jpb by establishing three shifts of
eight hours each and thus employ
more workers now unemployed.
The commissioner's decision was
strictly- in accord with the. best inter
ests of public policy. Authorities in
other states might well be guided by
it in' passing on requests similar to
the one on which Commissioner
Shientag made his decision.
Zinovieff, chairman of the fifth
congress of the Third of "Red" Inter
nationale, has madea discovery.
He announced at the congress that
with the exception of Russia, mem
bership in the Communist party in
the various countries of the world is
dropping. He admitted that the party
membership in the United States had
dropped from 20,000 to 5,000, while in
England it decreased from 10,000 to
3,000 and in Germany, from 300,000 to
250,000.. He quoted figures from South
American countries equally disappoint
ing to Communist hopes.
Zinovieff is finding rout that the
Reds can't fool all the workers all of
the time, a job that they apparently
thought was easy. When the toilers
realize what Communist means, none
but an infinitesimal number will have
anything to do with it. They have
seen what Russia has endured under
Red" rule and they do not want to
have the Russian experiment tried
upon them. Hence the dwindling
Communist parties.
Bricklayers and hoisting engineers
who are refusing to work with incom
pete'nt non-union iron workers in
New York City are taking a wise pre
caution against death or serious in
jury. The bricklayers and engineers know
that as long as no-unionists are work
ing over them, there is an excellent
chance of being hit by falling iron and
being taken to the hospital ro the
morgue. So they have declined to
continue at work on jobs where their
lives are endangered. Presumably
they will not return to work until the
non-unionists are replaced by union
men, who have proved their skill and
competency on many a difficult and
dangerous job.
The course taken by the bricklayers
and engineers was the only one open
to men whose sole wealth is their la
bor power and whose families face
misery and starvation when they are
deprived of the use of their labor power
by accident or death. It is a course that
should be emulated by workers in every
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trade wnose lives are menaced by in
competent non-unionists.
The far-reaching effects of the work
of the International Labor Office, in
which, unfortunately, the United States
is not taking a part, is shown by its suc
cess in helping child workers of Persia.
Some time ago the International La
bor Office made friendly representations
to the Persian Government regarding
conditions under which women and chil
dren were employed in the carpet indus
try in Kerman and adjacent villages.
Children began work at the age of four
or five at the carpet weaving looms,
working long hours in very unsanitary
surroundings. In many instances chil
dren became cripples for life from sitting
many hours each day. crouched over the
loom. . Following the representations of
the Labor Office, steps were taken to
temporarily remedy the conditions pend
ing more definite measures.
The Labor Office now learns that in
accordance with the decision of the Per
sian Government, the Governor of the
Province of Kerman has issued a decree
which confirms and in some respects ex
tends the measures previously applied.
The decree provides a maximum work
ing day of eight hours, holidays with pay
on Fridays and festival days, a minimum
age for boys of eight ears and for girls
age for boys of eight ears and for girls
of ten years, separate working places for
boys and girls with proper supervision,
prohibition of the employment of per
sons suffering from contagious diseases
prohibition of unsanitary workshops and
unhealthy conditions in the shops, and
monthly sanitary inspection of shops. The
police authorities are instructed to en
force these requirements, any infring
ment of which is punishable with fine and
imprisonment.
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