They have always. because of their experience. been confined largely to contests between union labor and nonunion labor men. and have had their minds entirely devoted to the question of maintaining the laborunion movement. At the hearing Mr. Morrison admitted in answer to my question that he had never considered the .broader economic aspects involved in the question of immigration and restriction. He confided to the committee that as to the effect on labor of restricting the number of consumnrs and therefore narrowing the market for the products of labor as restrictions to immigration would. and the effect on labor of shutting off and restricting the number of men who go to the farms to dwell or of draining the farms of farmer boys as the cities would if emigration were shut off to any gloat extent. he had not considered those aspects of the question at all. And right in this connection I desire to refer to the opinion and deliberate judgment of Mr. Louis F.
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