By the Associated Press
London, June 13—Great Britain is worried over the increasing number of skilled artisans and domestic servants who want to take up their abodes in the United States. The stream of Emigrants which has flocked from these shores to America has caused a special committee of the government to injure into the causes.
Only the exhaustion of the annual quota of British subjects eligible to enter the United States under the percentage law has prevented tens of thousands of others from pitching their tents under the stars and stripes. With the exception of France and Germany, practically every nation is now barred from sending emigrants to America until next July, then the new annual quota begins. Already the steamer booksings from the United Kington to America for July, August and September are full.
“America may still be the melting pot,” remarks the Westminster Gazette editorially, “but its legislators are keeping a stricter eye on the metals which go into the alloy than ever before. The British race is given a certain measure of flattery in an evident disposition to welcome more of its members, but that is scarcely surprising when we discover that the people whom we send are in large measure domestic servants and skilled workers, neither of whom we can afford to lose.”
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, June 13, 1923
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