No voice was raised for labor. But contemporaneously with these enactments labor was likewise a subject of consideration. and what consideration did it receive from the men who composed the Congress of that day ? In 1864. at the very crisis of these discussions. a bill was passed not to increase tariff taxes for the protection of labor. but side by side with the imposition of fresh burdens. as if in mockery of their relation to labor. a bill was enacted to provide for the importation of contract labor from abroad. The bill provided that foreign laborers to be imported by such contractsthe contracts themselves. when made in foreign countries. to be legalized hereshould pledge the wages of their labor for the term of a year to their employers. Mr.
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