In the same letter they say: If every ship available today were packed to its capacity on every trip for the next two years. they could not bring over here more than a million and ti half of workers for factory. farm. or household. all of which the country needs. In another letter. dated New York. December 8. 1920. the president of the InterRacial Council says: If there has been any danger to America. it has not been from the immigration of foreign born to this country. The danger has been from the departure of foreign born. from the lack of sufficient numbers of foreignborn workmen in the industries that depend upon foreignborn labor. from the restrictionist attitude of some of our people. These quotations show the drift of this stream of letters sent to Members of Congress. I have a considerable collection of thems. They are in line with the following quotation from a recent letter from the Federation of Construction Industries: The business men of the United States will need to exert themselves actively. both individually and as associations if the disaster to the country arising from the stopping of immigration Is to be averted. The InterRacial Council is a concern of some magnitude. Some months ago it had 40 or 50 executives and other fulltime paid employees in its offices in New York. and an unascertalned number of other agents and elmployees.
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