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...mans a Volkswagen assembly line in West Germany, he may well receive identical letters from Vittorio, Gino, Maria-Teresa and all his other party friends back home. Last week local Communist Party offices were passing out "Dear Pippo" form letters to home-town comrades to send to their migrant-worker friends in other European countries-a switch on the 1948 campaign, when Italian Americans wrote to relatives in the old country urging them not to vote Communist...
Between June 17 and 20, 65 special trains for returning workers within Italy to connect with international trains will be added on routes carrying migrant labor from Brussels, Stuttgart, Munich and other major centers. In addition, 192 special trains will be provided for Italian residents living elsewhere. Although voters must pay the cost of transport to the Italian border, government subsidies will allow them to travel free inside Italy and even get free tickets for ferries from the mainland to Sardinia, Sicily and other islands...
...same time, migrant workers are paid less than native workers. They live more intensively and under more hazardous conditions. The presence of migrants in the labor force also makes the unemployment of native workers possible and depresses their wages by weakening their bargaining position, though the exploitation of migrants may facilitate the extension of social welfare benefits to native workers. In many respects, then, migratory labor promotes economic growth and social stability, so that it seems correct to argue, as Castles and Kosack, two British students of the problem do, that "labor migration is a form of aid given...
While migratory labor stimulates growth in those countries which receive it, it hinders development in those which provide it. Underdeveloped countries lose the best secion of their labor force through migration and are consequently left with a population with too high a proportion of dependent inactive people. Remittances by migrants from their wages do not contribute substantially to reducing the balance of trade deficits of their home countries: these deficits rise at the same rate as do wages. And when migrant workers return with funds accumulated abroad, they tend to invest them unproductively, in small businesses that fail...
...growing importance of migratory labor presents the European labor movement with a serious challenge. On the one hand, the exploitation of migrant workers in the developed countries fragments the labor movement there, weakening its bargaining position and lowering the living standards of native workers. Therefore it is imperative that western European trade unions organize migrant workers in order to present a common front to the employers. On the other hand, many western European workers are racist and xenophobic, perceiving migrant workers only as a threat to the indigenous workers' position. And many migrant workers are so oriented toward their homelands...