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President Eugene G. Grace of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation has an answer to Judge Gary's plea for letting down the immigration bars. He announced that he had 1,000 Mexican laborers at work in his plants, that they were efficient and reliable, and that since there was no restriction on Mexican immigration, the steel industry could replenish its labor shortage with Mexican labor without seriously disturbing economic and labor conditions in the steel towns. It is expected that many employers of common labor will take advantage of the fact that Mexican labor has no legal quota limit...
...night, an hour before the Sabbath. A gang of sturdy white men, geared out with ropes and revolvers surround the jail. They curse the sputtering Sheriff, and sledgehammer at the steel walls. Then, acetylene flames; and soon the leader has dragged out a Negro. The gang, now quiet, packs for the country. Fifty automobiles follow, respectfully curious...
...Mexicans profitably employed by Steel President Grace...
During the past week the current financial and business situation changed little. Production, particularly in steel, oil and automobiles, remained at high rates, but with a detestable tendency to decline. The stock market remained dull and heavy. Cotton and wheat were firmer. The slackening tendency observable in business generally is normal for this season of the year, but business leaders are inclined to think consumption has begun to overtake production, and that further increases in the rate of output would be for a speculative purpose alone. Wages are generally rising, however, and in general profits in industry and trade seem...
...class suffers so much as the farmer from the bane of surplus supplies", Professor Sprague declared. "This is true for two reasons. In the first place, farming produce cannot be exported easily because it will spoil in the process. Secondly, the farmer cannot suspend, operations as do the large steel or coal corporations, until the prices rise and even if he could, the farming class is so numerous that prices as a whole would be affected little by one man's attempt to decrease the output. The general wheels of 'up or down' are hard on the farmer because...