THE UNEMPLOYED FOREIGN-BORN.

The article focuses on alien labor in the United States. There are in excess of six million aliens in the U.S. Estimates indicate that once economic recovery is well on its way, the country will have a fixed unemployed population of five million persons. Although much has been written about unemployment as a purely economic and industrial problem, little thought has been given to the degree to which it is aggravated by the denial of work to persons of foreign birth, who are not actual or potential American citizens. Statistical and objective studies show that large numbers of the present alien group in the U.S. are out of work because they are not citizens of the country. Until they become naturalized, there is the probability that they will be thrown upon public charities for support, and the further unhappy circumstance that even that very public support, in certain parts of the country, may be denied to them on the ground that they are aliens. An example of this attitude is a bill introduced in the New York State Senate barring aliens from receiving any work relief under the unemployment aid program.