Seeks Admission of Greater Number of Jewish Immigrants to Canada

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

The question of admitting a greater number of Jewish immigrants to Canada was taken up by A. A. Heaps, Jewish labor member of the Canadian parliament, with the Minister of Immigration and Colonization.

“The Minister was favorably disposed to my suggestion,” Mr. Heaps stated in an interview with the representative of the “Jewish Daily Bulletin.”

“I will demand from the government the unqualified recognition of the right for a greater Jewish immigration to Canada,” Mr. Heaps stated. “According to the present Canadian laws only farmers, farm workers and servants may be admitted. Jewish immigrants are, therefore, totally restricted, as they are not well represented in these occupations. I shall make clear the moral right of the Jews to demand a proportionate number of immigrants as granted to other nationalities.

“The Canadian government should grant a yearly concession for a certain number of Jewish immigrants to the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society of Canada, who assumes the responsibility that the arrivals will not become dependent on the government,” he declared.

BROOKLYN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HEARS ARGUMENTS AGAINST ALIEN REGISTRATION

Louis Marshall, the Rev. John Haynes Holmes of the Community Church and Congressman Emanuel Celler, attacked the proposed Alien Registration bill, which has the support of the Secretary of Labor, James J. Davis, and other Government officials, at a meeting of the Immigration Committee at the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night.

Dr. Holmes said that the bill was a result of “war psychology.”

Congressman Celler argued that the bill was despotic and un-American. The meeting was attended by about two hundred. Several spoke from the audience in a forum following the speeches. All who spoke attacked the bill.