Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1916 — HAVING TROUBLE IN ENTERING THE U. S. [ARTICLE]

HAVING TROUBLE IN ENTERING THE U. S.

Brother of Remington Man May Be Deported Back to England—To Be Derided Yet. Robert Burns, secretary and treasurer of the Superba Shock Absorber Company of Remington, was called to New York several days ago to attempt to get the immigration officials to permit a younger brother from England to land. The young man is a native of England but on account of physical disabilities, was rejected as a soldier and he decided to come to America and join his brother at Remington. Everything was all right until the ship docked at New York when the British consul took a 1 .tnd by raising objections to his entrance. He was subjected to a physical examina ; tion and it was found that he was entitled to enter this country, but the British officials put him on the witness stand and in asking him why he wanted to come here he said he was going to work for his brother who was connected with the Superba Manufacturing Company at Remington, and they then changed their objections to his entry on the grounds of the contract labor law which prevents anyone entering this country who has entered into a contract with his employer before leaving the old country and the Washington authorities ordered him deported. His trunks had- been loaded upon the tug to take him back to England when his brother from Remington walked in and fount out what was the matter. He appealed to Washington for a rehearing, ant with the assistance of Senator Kern and Congressman Wood the department was induced to give the hearing, but no final decision has yet been made. In the meantime Bobby Bums is still in New York making a fight, and his friends have hope that he will bo able to bring his brother back with him; The British government is throwing all the obstacles in the way of the young men leaving England possible, if they are not able to join the army they want them in the'r factories. France his issued an order to re-examine all of -Jier men who were exempt on account of disability, with the intention of enlisting them for positions back of the front and sending a’l the able bodied men into the trenches.