Mr. Chairman. the commission then names several methods that could be adopted for that purpose. and concludes: All these methods will be effective. in one way or another. in securing restrictions in a greater or less degree. The majority of the commission favor the reading and writing test as the most feasible single method of restricting undesirable immigration. Mr. Chairman. we have not included the writing test. because the record shows that only a few thousand a year who come in are able to read and are unable to write. and hence it would make very little difference in the number coming. but the commission arrived at that conclusion. and that is the common sense of the propositionthat the unskilled class of labor that come here with low standards of wages. that come here with low standards of living. could be kept out more feasibly by a literacy test than by any other test or provision. Mr. Chairman. whom would this bill exclude and whom would it let in?
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Unskilled laborers have low standards of wages and living.