Session #81 · 1949–51

Speech #810076299

First. the United States needs the additional skilled population which these DPs bring into our country. Second. it will reduce the burden of expense which we are now paying through the IIO. which for this current year is $70.000.000. and tend to bring us to a goal which we set of July 1. 1950. at which time we expected to be able to terminate. or at least to so materially reduce our support of IRO that it would no longer be a major factor. Third. the moral obligation which we owe to the DPs. and this is not based on any abstruse proposition. but is based on our adoption in this House of the International Refugee Organization charter. We joined that organization. and along with the other nations which are members agreed to bring about resettlement of displaced persons. On the question of the skills of thtse people it is very important to note that these displaced persons who are left are not devoid of skills. On the contrary. various useful skills are very much present in these people. An actual survey made by the International. Refugee Organization as of the fall of last year of 283.188 DPs. a very considerable sample. showed that professional and management personnel among that 283.000 constituted 12.8 percent: agricultural workers still constituted 22 percent. skilled workers in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing employment constituted a total of over 28 percent. Far more than the majority of the adults in these groups are still very skilled workers. and are available to us. Of course. as we all know. we are short of certain skills in this country. and those skills are provided for in this bill. by giving preference to farm. household and construction workers. tailors. and so forth.
Keywords matched
Refugee

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic contributor Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
JACOB JAVITS
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
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Speech ID
810076299
Paragraph
#0
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