Legislators, scientists and representatives of immigrants will meet at the Bar Association Tuesday at 8 P. M. to discuss the Johnson immigration law, it was announced yesterday by Nathaniel Phillips, president of the League of Foreign Born Citizens, 342 Madison Avenue, who summoned the conference principally to offer plans to correct some of the defects of the present immigration law.
Professor Franz Boas, anthropologist, will present the larger scientific aspects of the problem, while Professor Julius Dracheler of City College, an authority on immigration, will discuss technical problems. Representatives Anning S. Prall and Nathan D. Perlman will present the point of view of Congress, while Mr. Phillips and Harold Fields, chairman of the committee on immigration legislation for the league, will speak in behalf of the immigrants.
Among the societies represented at the conference will be the Salvation Army, Catholic Immigrant Auxiliary. Independent Order of B’rith Abraham, Jewish Welfare Board, National Council of Episcopal Churches, Board of Education, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Home Missions Council, Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society, Staten Island Social Service, State Education Department, Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities, Young Men’s Christian Association, Italian Auxiliary, Naturalization Aid League and the Hudson Guild.
Consultations and conferences have been held with many authorities in allied fields with the result that this general conference has been called to acquaint all civic and patriotic organizations engaged in similar work with the recommendations of this committee.
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