Ended

The International Conference on Immigration and Emigration was concluded at Rome.

In spite of the fact that the U. S. delegates and some South American delegates abstained from voting, a large number of resolutions were passed:

1) Exchange of information on immigration and emigration conditions;

2) Establishment of uniform identification cards for emigrants, valid for all countries;

3) Coordination of the immigration and emigration statistics of various countries;

4) Recommendations for repression of clandestine emigration;

5) Measures for keeping out undesirables;

6) Establishment of uniform emigrant passports and simplification of routine in obtaining passports and visas, with a view to abolishing passports altogether as soon as possible;

7) Supervision of contracts involving deductions from wages;

8) Measures to facilitate the circulation of skilled laborers;

9) Regulations for controlling collective recruiting of laborers in foreign countries;

10) Measures concerning the emigration of intellectual workers;

11) Measures assuring respect for the religious and traditional habits of emigrants;

12) Principles for drawing up collective labor contracts.

At one period in the proceedings of the Conference, a clash occurred between the U. S. and British delegates over referring a question to the International Labor Bureau of the League of Nations.

U. S. Delegate E. J. Henning, Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Department of Labor, said the Conference was an autonomous body and had no need to refer questions to another body. "In fact," said he, "I am not quite sure to what organization the honorable gentleman from Great Britain is referring."

Retorted Viscount Ullswater, British delegate: "The U. S. should live in the world, not out of it."