Perhaps the fact that the Government selects its navy yard workmen through the civil service. which requires them to be American citizens. has something to do with it. In that connection I would call attention to some of the mistakes in some legislation that we have passed. It seems that out in Seattle the immigration commissioner of the United States for all of that country is also the labor mediator. and lie was until recently in charge of the United States Labor Employment Bureau. It strikes me that these positions. or any two of them. are inharmonious and should be in separate hands. In the Northwest thecitizens have been trying for a long time to have a lot of revolutionary agitatorsforeignersdeported. but for some reason It has not been done. Many of these foreigners. who have not even taken out their first papers. have been taken into the unions and have swamped certain unions. When the time comes for their deportation by the United States immigration commissioner. the step is made hard for that official and is likely to embarrass him In his capacity as Federal labor mediator. I have a telegram here that says there are not less than 500 aliens in Seattle. many of them labor agitators and leaders. who can be deported under the laws we have already on our statutes.
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Generalizes that foreigners are revolutionary agitators.