Speech #660291937

That hundreds of big financial industrial and shipping concerns. such as those named. are financing the activities of the InterRacial Council. Second. That an important part of the work of that concern is to advocate the abolition of the literacy test. to open wider the door of immigration. and make it easier for illiterates and others to get in. and to procure the admission of millions of. illiterate laborers. . Members of Congress and the people who wonder why we are unable to procure satisfactory legislation on this subject will find in the facts stated a showing of the attitude of certain groups. and in that at least a partial explanation of the difficulties met by the Congress in its efforts to protect the Nation against the peril which alarms the people and is real. People representing these powerful groups came before your Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. gentlemen. and requested an arrangement be made to admit as many as 4.000.000 laborers. stating that it would be best for them to bring their families with them. The gentlemen whom I have named have been actively identified in a propaganda for adinissions and against restriction and have a powerful organization. as shown by the testimony. a full copy of which I would like to hive inserted in the RECORD but for the fact that it is so voluminous. I say these things. gentlemen. not because I want to be sensational or to take up the time of the committee with unimportant matters.