It is perfectly natural. It seems to me it would not be necessary to know the facts In this case in order to determine what the conditions were. if one knew that it was perfectly practicable for mill owners to import cheap labor and that the mills were managed by shrewd and selfish businezs men. he would know without investigation that they do import cheap labor and that they use cheap labor. No matter what the number of men brought in on these packets may be and whoever they may be. or whatever nationality they may belong to. we have report after report from the Tariff Board. from the Commissioner of Labor in his latest report and reports which he has made previously. and from the Immigration Commission. showing that. the employees in the woolen mills of Massachusetts do not get their share or any share of the benefits of the tariff. I say that because their wages are based. apparently. upon the principle of paying them barely enough to live and work on. The great mass of laborers in these mills only get a sufficient wage to keep themselves and their families alive and in working condition. or. at least. large numbers of them do. and what benefit has come to them from a 200 per cent or 150 per cent prohibitory tariff?
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Mill owners import cheap labor and use cheap labor.