I mention that simply by way of inducement in what I am going to suggest to the Senator. Then there are certain classes excluded from the operation of the law in the succeeding proviso: And provided further. That the provisions of this law applicable to -contract labor shall not be held to exclude professional actors. artists. lecturers. singers. ministers of any religious denomination. professors for colleges or seminaries. persons belonging to any recognized learned profession. To that point in the clause of course you might say none of that is labor. but it adds: Or persons employed strictly as personal or domestic servants. Now. with the recognition of the fact by this provision of law that contract labor should be permitted under certaip circumstances in certain classes of labor. upon what principle. I would ask the $enator. does the committee draw the line at domestic persons employed strictly as personal or domestic servants? I will state to the Senator very frankly the object of myinquiry. premising first that I understand the purpose of the law in this exclusion to be -mainly directed for the protection of the mechanical classes of the country. w.io do not desire that persons shall be admitted here who will be in competition with them in their work.
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