Session #76 · 1939–41

Speech #760002379

The Chief of Army Engineers reported approximately 20 alien relief workers on floodcontrol projects in California. The Department of Agriculture listed 89 aliens. 28 of whom are employed abroad by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 6 in the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine in foreign countries. 13 are laborers for the Bureau of Public Roads in Alaska and Central America. 5 are soil research experts. and 12 are employed seasonally as woodsmen in the Forest Service. An elevator boy and the assistant superintendent of charwomen were listed by the Federal Reserve Board as not naturalized. I suppose we could not find an American boy with enough sense to run that elevator. It was necessary to employ an allen. The Department of Labor disclosed that it employs five Chinese and two Japanese interpreters in the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. I assume that is essential. Mr.
Keywords matched
Naturalization Immigration naturalized

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Chinese Japanese
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT REYNOLDS
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
NC
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
760002379
Paragraph
#0
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