ONGs Speaking in the House of Commons H.0. Qurden, Tory member for Sally Oeke, Birmingham, said thet in Birminghem alum olearance wee in aight, tut ac a result of immigration hopes of clearing the slume seamed to heve diseppeared, Tis ne tried to put the blame on the immigrante for the terrible housing shortage in Birmingham What ere tho facte? The very samo dey , Alderman Orogan, chairoan of the houselmilding committee in Hrinae stated that his aoity's housing dovelopment was being severely hindered by shortage of brickea and men. One project had been, for these reasons, delayed six months in starting. In another the priveta contractor was getting losa than half the bricks he needed and eongaquently hed sacked half hia man, The corporation had kept 4,000 to 5,000 houses undar centract but had been unable te complete more than 2,000 to 2,500 a year, It had now out ita target to 2,250 this yoar, Ee attributed tho shorteees to the velwesa of eomc- “rdial. building being-done, TWO & One of thea moat common arguments used agtinst inmieration ia that Hritein is an ovarcrowlad island, etc. eto. lutler, when preased to sive figures oomparing immigration with emigretionshedged ond claimed thay were not available, No wonder be did not want to release thesa figures bafere tha dabate, Thay shay that emigration accounted for nearly twiee as many ssople as immigration in tho years 1952-1959. The figuras are (all for 1952-1959, the lates+ availeble) the mainber of amigranta to all countries was 1,044,170; the number of imiigrante fron all countries wae 542,036, The figures for the Conmenwanlth only were 911,880 end 431,710 respootively, THRE: ino lstter to the Iecnomist, Cyril Cabourné, arch—racialiat in the Tory party, stung by that journal's attack upen hin, weete asking 'How soon will it be before there are more coloured than white people if Sniglendessst!’, Thos Eecnemist, in pia reply, calculated, that et the prosent rate of inorgeed, same tine around th 80, This kind of argument,wiilat not boing sericua in itaoif, demonstrates on the ona hend, Osbourne's racinlism, and on the other tha insigm= fieance,;in renl terma,of immigration os ageinet the total sopulsation FOUR: another argument we hear often is that diomigrante live off the stata by going on National Assistanes ate, Of the 113,000 who cate Isst year, over 95% heave now got jobs, Nearly all tha receaining aro housewives,
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