Including what is commonly known as "Chinese or Japanese matting." is. we believe. not made In this country at all. It has been proposed in paragraph 356 to classify these cheap straw mattings and the heavy sub. stantial cocoa door mats and matting alike. There is. however. no similarity whatever. Our domestic cocoa matting and mats needs adequate duty against the coolie labor. while the straw matting can evidently only be made profitably by coolie labor of India and China. That is the statement in behalf of the manufacturers. I now desire to read and put into the RECORD a statement made in behalf of the workingmen engaged in this industry. signed by D.
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Generalization that straw matting can only be made profitably by coolie labor of India and China.