Laborers are scarce. according to the testimony. cnd the labor problem is one of the greatest. as it is one of the first. with which the Cuban people will have to deal. So great is the demand for labor and so difficult to procure it there. that the question of the importation of cheaper foreign labor is now being considered by the Cubans. and the fear here is that Chinese labor will be imported into that island to such an extent as to menace the industrial and labor conditions in our own country. This fear is recognized by the framers of this bill. for one of its provisions has for its object the exclusion of foreign labor and Chinese immigration. justas the same are excluded from this country. and that. too. in face of the fact that Cuba is just starting where we started more than a century ago. and needs labor to till her soil. to work her factories. and to develop her wonderful resources. I am not driticising the measure. however. on that ground. I am only calling attention to the fact. as I pass on. for the purpose of showing some of the inconsistencies in the position assumed by the advocates of the bill.
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