I want to ask the Senator who was the chairman of the Immigration Commission if he thinks this influx of Ignorant labor from the southern part of Europe is not depressing the wages of unskilled labor in this country? If he means to argue that it has not had that effect. I ask him how lie accounts for the fact that the foreign laborers in the mines and bituminouscoal fields of Pennsylvania are receiving 42 cents a day less than native miners employed in the mines of the West and Southwest? And how does he explain the finding of the commission that the oversupply of unskilled labor brought about by excessive immigration has depressed wages in the basic industries of the country?
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Influx of ignorant labor from southern Europe is depressing wages.