What does this doctrine that the manufacturers and the employers of this country "should be permitted to hire where they can hire cheapest" mean? It means. Mr. Chairman. that the owners and managers of the coal mines of Maryland and Illinois. and the coal and iron mines of Virginia and Alabama. Pennsylvania. and these other great States interested in these industries. can lock out their cmployds for any cause or pretense and fill their places with the contract labor of Europe. It means that the factories and furnaces in all of the great manufacturing States can be supplied by starving operatives from Belgium. England. and other overcrowded countries of the Old World.
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