National origins provision of immigration law

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-196168

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: National origins provision of immigration law

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: III, 171 S

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of Frank B. Steele, secretary-general, representing the Sons of American Revolution

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10 NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW Mr. Lroyp. Mr. Chairman, I also have a letter from the National Patriotic Council, who passed a resolution the other day, and I would like to turn that in for the record. The Cmamman. It may be inserted. (The letter referred to is as follows :) THE NATIONAL PATRIOTIC COUNCIL, Washington, D. C., January 30, 1929. Senator HizaM JOHNSON, Chairman Senate Immigration Committee, Washington, D. C. My Dear Senator: I desire to inform you that the National Patriotic Council, nt a meeting to-day, at the Arlington Hotel, attended by many leaders of nation. wide organizations, voted unanimously in favor of the retention and putting into effect of the national origins provision of the immigration act of 1924, and instructed its officers to offer ail possible opposition to the Nye resolution (8. 192). Yours very truly, CorNELIA Ross Porrs, President. The *Cuairman. Proceed, Mr. Trevor, as you desire, in reference to the matter before the committee. STATEMENT OF JOHN B. TREVOR, NATIONAL IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION CONFERENCE, NEW YORK CITY Mt. Trevor. My name is John B. Trevor, my address is 11 East Ninety-first Street, New York; my business address is 40 Wall Street. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I represent the Na- tional Immigration Restriction Conference, which is a body of dele- gates of patriotic organizations from all over the country, all of whom are firmly in support of the national origins provision of the inmigration act of 1924. * Also I have been requested to represent a great many other organi- zations. If I may, I will enumerate them : The Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, one of the most important organizations of the country, which at a special meeting of the chamber, held on June 23, 1927, the following report and resolutions, submitted by its executive committee, were adopted. I would like to submit that report as representative of the views of the chamber of commerce on this subject The Crairmax. Very well. {The document referred to is as follows:) CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE STATE oF NEW YORK At a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, held June 23, 1927, the following report and resolutions, submitted by its executive committee, were adopted : IMMIGRATION To the Chamber of Commerce: The executive committee of this chamber, from recent events throughout the world is convinced that the American people can mot remain supine, if our institutions and Government are to endure. Of all forms of administration, democracy is peculiarly susceptible to the infiltration of foreign elements that do not understand or appreciate the customs and government of the new land in which they settle. There is no.use closing our eyes to the fact, that the outstanding motive underlying modern immigration is the economic betterment of the immigrant. Those most ready to abandon the land of their birth, either

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