Mr. President. by section 20 of an act of Congress entitled "An act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying trade. and for other purposes." approved June 26. 1884. knowf as the Dingley shipping act. it is expressly provided: That every master of a vessel in the foreign trade may engage any seaman at any port out of the United States. in the manner provided by law. to serve for one or more round trips from and to the port of departure. or for a definite time. whatever the destination. So we see that not only is the labor of seamanship not protected by the law excluding foreign contract laborbut American ship masters are advised to go to foreign ports wherever they can find sailor labor cheap and mean enough to suit their purposes. and with that labor to man their vessels. opening the ports of the United States to this contract foreign sailor labor to the exclusion of the American and the Caucasian sailor.
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