Cuba. and the Philippines to sugar. tobacco. and the manufacturing interests where cheap labor from China. Japan. and the Filipino may compete with American labor? The contract laws do not apply. nor do pauper laws nor immigration laws shut out cheap labor in our colonial possessions. Today the large trust interests are taking steps to import Chinese labor into Cuba and Porto Rico. Today the Japanese. the little brown man. with all his strength. skill. and imitation. is competing with American labor because these possessions. given favorable tariff concessions from our Government. do not have laws restricting cheap labor. contract labor. or convict labor. The contentions of the Republicans that high wages are synonym6us with high protection can not be borne out by actual economic conditions. because wages are kept up by the intelligent cooperation of labor unions. If you should destroy organized labor and abolish labor unions the scale of wages would fall 50 per cent in six months.
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