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I Now. when you come to the American laborer there. he is paid co much per hour. and my understanding is that almost all of them are dissatisfied with the restrictions that are Imposed upon them by the eighthour law. and that they are very anxious to be permitted to work a longer time per day than they are now allowed to work. provided. of course. that they will get pay in addition to what they now receive according to the hour uate. and that. of course. they would get. I do not think that American labor in this country is at all interested in this question. Certainly it is not interested in what alien labor is paid on the Isthmus. and the repeal of the eighthour law with reference to the alien labor there can not in any way affect the questions that are involved in the agitation in this country for the eighthourday law. On the other hand. as I said. the Americans who are there have left their homes and gone down there because the wages there are better than they are here. They have gone there to make money. .They want to make that money and get back home just as quickly as they can.