Let me explain. At present. under the law. if you are a manufacturer and if In this country skilled labor of the kind you want can not be found. you have the right to import the requisite number of workmen without being guilty of violating the contractlabor law. Theoretically. at all events. that is the case. but. in practice. manufacturers are timid about availing themselves of the statute lest the immigration authorities should exclude the workmen on arrival. and lest they themselves should be punished on the ground that there was in fact no scarcity of the particular kind of skilled labor which they had imported. Two or three years ago the Department of Commerce and Labor suggested that the law should be changed so that the question as to the scarcity in this country of any particular kind of labor might be determined beforehand. that is to say. before any contract was made on the other side of the ocean. In the immigration bill which President Taft vetoed we inserted a provision to permit this very thing.
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