They work, it is said, in water-tight compartments, competing among themselves, but not directly competing with English workers.

Now if it were the case that these foreigners really introduced new branches of production designed to stimulate and supply new wants this contention would have much weight.

The Flemings who in Edward III.'s reign introduced the finer kinds of weaving into England, and the Huguenot refugees who established new branches of the silk, glass, and paper manufactures, conferred a direct service upon English commerce, and their presence in the labour market was probably an indirect service to the English workers.

But this is not the case with the modern Jew immigrants.

They have not stimulated or supplied new wants.