Between 1875 and 1914 nearly 120,000 Jews came to Britain. Most of them settled in the East End of London. In 1898, Lord Hardwicke moved a Bill to control immigration. May of that year, Hardwicke stated in the House of Lords:
*It would be a very serious matter if the type of population which is now to be found in many districts of the East End, where there is a strong alien element, were to become at all a common type in the poorer districts of our large cities.
would mean, my Lords," Hardwicke continued, 'that these classes would become to a great extent non-English in character, and that, both an physique and in moral and socia CONVERSATIONS about immigration 'causing' and customs, they had fallen below our BESCHE by means elevated, Stepney, Major William Evans Gordon, Speech demanding immediate immigrapasses but Enplish Tamilies are ruth Buy unco C To make room lO foreign invaders. Out they so to make room for Rumanians, Kussians and •Kentsare raised 50 to 100 percent and a house which formerly contained a couplcot tastilies living in comparative desency is made to contain four or five which baffle description. It is only a matter of time betore the population becomes entirely forcign..
The rates are burdened with thi education of thousands of children of lorcien parents. Gordon exolmined Among the thousands who came here characters, and the competition with home industries extends to burglaries and other cognate crimes. I should have thought we had enough criminals of our prostitules.... A band of Italians, every obewilbalnewhich bersiocrewdy la ine. is at this moment cassing great anxiety to the County Council.... Ibe working buildines are erected not for them but classes know that for strangers from abroad; they sec notices that no English need apply placarded on vacant rooms; they see the schools crowded with foreign children and the very posters and advertisenicaes on the wallsina forcigntongue..
His no longer within the power of an English working man in many parts of East London to enjoy his day of rest..
RACIST: I'm fed up with all your left wing crap. is overpopulated and we shouldn't let any more immigrants in.
ANSWER: But more people leave this country than come into it. There are no serious harriers for white immigrants entering in any case. Ir's just the hlacks who are kept out. Also it's not really a question of overpopulation. but of hos existing resources are used.
The problem is that existing resources hosses, Their aim is to make profits. In times of crisis making profits can only be done by attacking living standards of all workers, black and white Look here, I'on talking about thing here and now. We have too million when we can't employ those we've got? But who causes unemployment? Is it immigrants? MITERS unemployment are Scotland, Northern Ireland and Tyneside. The number of leaders of a unionisation drive at the Coca Cola hotling plant in Houston Texas. That earned him the attention migre, - the Immmigration and Naturalisation Service, after a visit to Mexico to consult his lawyer last September attacks by the INS on foreign workers, nurliculary Mexicans. with startine originality, the Government attern pting to offload the blame for the economic iminigrants without papers. Marroguin could act the rest of his life in jail, or even death, A storm is brewing which, if it be allowed to hurst, will have deplorable results."
In 1905, the Conservative Central Office distributed an official lealle rimed for interrection in a by-clection. It was fairly explicic:
"'Let them come' is the radical cry The radicals hy their obstruction to the Abers Hall are evidently glad to see all foreigners whe are criminals, who suffer from loathsome diseases, whoare turned our in disgrace by their feliow countrymen, who are paupers who fil the streets with profligacy and disorder. Thetidea spelcomethem all In the same year, W. Haves Fisher Tocy MP for Fulham and an expert on London's sewage system, stated: Just of sewage. but iot the sewage of th whole Kingdom. so one portion o London cannot carry the whole of the pauper and diseased alen inmigrancs whocomeintothecouniry.
imeterants there is tiny. Or Take the south of Ireland. Luciploymen: there is much higher than in this country. But there are no immigrants there at all. And the Thirties? How many blacks were there in Britain then? Almost none.
Unemplovincal exists hecause this system is planned only to produce profits for a handful of people. Is the sceel industry sacking tens of thousands of workers because of imnsigrants because the whole syscem is in crisis? Just think about it.
But most of the blucks are scroungers. aren't they. It's the health service and social security which brings them here.
I'm glad we've dropped the word blacks, because that's what it is, ishit? Now listen. The Tories say that all unemployed workers are scroungers. You don'tagree with that, do you? Well you reunemploved, If you heard chat in South Africa you could get a job with more money than you ever earned here bearing beyond the original date of t7 January to allow time for the preparation of an adoquate defence.
The latest news is that Marroquin is to be allowed to tour the country speaking in his own delence. At the cod of December, Marroguiin's lawyer had been told by an immigration official: don't think that illegal aliens have the right to go walling around the country making spooches.
There's OME black would you go? You shake your head Why not?
Because I live here. I's my countr I've been brought up here.
Exactly. reluctant to leave Most black people are who lik that. They come to find jobs and the leave their countries because tE situation is very very desperate, it that or their children starving to death The countries they come from are like that because Britian went and loote here bocause you were there!
But Thutcher's right when she say: they have a different culture. They de.
Yes, but so what. Our the centurie many different cultures Jave existe together and intermingled. They enrich each ocher. But, by the was, are you sure your culture is exacily the same a. Thatcher'? Where will you children bi educated?
Do they stand a real chance of going quit Lane's bureaucratic machine In the closing days of the old CRO they hud set up an internal anti-racis group, which donated small soms or money to such bodies as the Campaign Aguinst Racisan in the Media. A ximilur informal group set up the new TROUSSEHE INSURED KHO HATH spend its time discussing What i racism? Doesn't Lane know!
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