Canadian Commuters

IMMIGRATION

Canadian Commuters

To commute is not to migrate. So decided the Supreme Court of the U. S. last week in refusing to review the cases of one Mary Cook and one Antonio Danelon, two inhabitants of Niagara Falls, Ont., who, like many other Canadians cross the U. S. line every day to go to work. They were the laboratory specimens selected from among tens of thousands to test a ruling made last year by the Labor Department (TIME, May 2, 1927), putting foreign-born Canadian commuters under the quota law.

Labor unions had agitated the question. In the Federal Court at Buffalo, Mary Cook and Antonio Danelon lost their cases. In the Circuit Court of Appeals they won, with many a fine reference to the Jay Treaty of 1794 and the historic freedom of U. S.-Canadian comings & goings. The Supreme Court nodded its approval.