As I said. it is not confined to the cotton mills. It is so in every branch of industry. and this very week or next week. I am not certain which. there is to be in the city in which I live a great convention of people engaged in all the various branches of industry to try to devise means by which. without violating the laws of the United States. immigrants can be brought into the country to keep our industries in motion. If all the Republican Senators were in their seats today and could have this presentation made to them. that 20 per cent. onefifth. of the industries of the South are today idle because of the impossibility of getting labor. would they say they would pass a bill that would make it even more difficult than it is now to get labor. and that we shall not have the advantage presented by existing law? The present law. as I was proceeding to show by reading from the decision of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. now gives us some slight opportunity.
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