JAMES E. WATSON. which I will in part read to the House? He says: The organized workers of this country feel that the existing immlgration laws. while not without their value. are of trifling effect. comparcd with the needs and the just demand of American labor. * * * The Nashville convention of the American Federation of Labor by a vote of 1.858 to 352 pronounced in favor of an educational test for immigrants. Such a measure would check immigration in a moderate degrec. and those who would be kept out by it are those whose competition in the labor market Is most injurious to American workers. No other measure* which would have any important effect of this kind is seriously proposed. I earnestly hope that you will be able to procure the embodiment of an illiteracy test for immigrants in the bill which the House now has under consideration.
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