Speech #710095005

Under that permission I American Fascisti. the oath of allegiance to Mussolini. the fact shall print paragraphs which explain in a nonlegal way the the Sons of Italy in America in annual convention were only various paragraphs of the bill. as follows: saved from giving a majority vote of allegiance to the dictator Section 1 of this bill needs no further explanation other than -by the efforts of the orders president. Mr. Cottilli. now a New to say that this act shall be known as the immigration act of York State supreme judge. The 1.000 copies printed were 1930. snapped up by the members and the public. The testimony Section 2 repeals subsection (c) of section 4 of the immigracreated little or no stir. Last November a magazineHarpers. tion act of 1924. It is this provision of the act of 1924 which I believeprinted an exposure of the workings of the Fascisti exempts immigration from countries on the Western Hemisphere in the United States of America. from the quota provisions now in force covering the rest of the It attracted a little attention. The exposure would have been world. dead in a month. but for this former colleague of ours ToM Section 3 provides that the quota system now in force shall HEFLiNI do not stand for most of the speeches he has made- not be less in fact but limited as to countries which are now I am proud that he had the power in the legislative body to read effectively covered. Conditions on this Continent of North that entire article. He thundered it. He made the public America and on the Continent of South America are held to be wake and see beyond what was simply a part of our knowledge so widely divergent in character from the immigration reon the subject with no action taken. But H=ruN made the ceived from the various political subdivisions or geographical dictator in Italy call back the Fascisti. Every Fascisti organiza- areas that immigration from these regions has been artificially tion in the United States has been closed. Their flags. their stimulated since immigration from Europe has been restricted. oaths to be first and to be forever Italians. even though natu- Section 4. This section is chiefly technical for administrative ralized here. are suppressed for the moment. thanks to that purposes. The data upon which the quotas are based has been orator who. when he means business. shoots both barrels. I consolidated in some cases by the Commissioner General of Immido not care whether he is a Democrat or a Republican and on gration into geographical areas rather thanpolitical subdivisions this bill I do not care what party you belong to. nor should any designated in section 3 of the act for simplicity and precision. of us. for in these things we are all Americans. On the computation of the quota established as hereinafter deWhy do I say a good word for HIsMN? Because what he has scribed. political boundaries have been disregarded and geodone to stop open Fascisti meetings in the United States paves graphical areas formed into immigration units which are prethe way for a bill from our committee to take away the citizen- scribed as the basis for quota. ship of those who insist in dual allegiance. And because I There is no nature of discrimination In this procedure belearn that in my State right now a man from the Mediterranean cause by and large the immigration from each immigration unit is rushing around among naturalizedcitizens. who desire to be is of the same general character. This Is so for Canada and good citizens. condemning me for my immigration work in Con- Newfoundland belong together and these two subdivisions of the gress. and calling on the voters to keep me at home. Last year British Empire are grouped together. Mexico is. of course. an editor of a New York foreignlanguage paper. naturalized but grouped as one unit with its dependent island. Central and for one year. felt it to be his duty to campaign against me in South American logically fall in the same unit. and finally the the third congressional district of Washington. In Chicago a West Indies form the last unit described in this section.