Chairman. I think it should be stated in fairness to the situation in all the industrial regions of my State. and. I believe. in all the States of the Union. where there are difficulties over labor. where men can not get employment. that the real cause of that difficulty is the fact that while we have stopped certain imports coming into this country. and thereby prevented the competition between foreign products and home products. we still have not prevented the unnatural competition between the cheap pauper labor of the old country and labor in this country. And until we shall have passed laws that properly restrict immigration and cut it down to a normal number. when or immigration shall be no greater than it should be. we will have this difficulty. this abnormal competition in the labor market of this country. The man whose only capital is his muscle. his ability to do a days work. is entitled to the same protection that capital is entitled to.
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Cheap pauper labor from the old country competes unfairly with labor in this country.