Assistant Secretary of Labor Philip Hannah, ##tifying today before the House Sub-Committee on Immigration in favor of the Strat## Bill to admit 400,000 DP’s to the U.S. within the next four years, said that ##ere is no factual basis for the view that the immigration contemplated by this ##ll would hamper or injure the economic well-being of our country.”The entry of 400,000 persons over a four-year period, the Labor Department official said, will have “no significant effect on the labor market of the United ##ates. The number of workers in this group annually would be but one-tenth of one ##rcent of our total labor force.”
He suggested that the bill contain a provision for the special care and education of displaced children who would be brought to this country, “to compensate for privations suffered during their formative years and to help them become good citi?ns.” He emphasized the fact that the Stratton Bill “does not in any sense consiste a reversal of our present immigration policy.”
Monsignor John O’Grady, representing the War Relief Services of the National ?tholic Welfare Services, said he thought that the solution of the displaced persons problem in Europe was equally as important as economic reconstruction and should be ##lved as part of the whole program of European rehabilitation.
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