Chairman. I repeat that this bill is a step along the line of the new freedom for labor. and it ought to be enacted into law. The opposition to labor has not been confined to a failure to pass wholesome laws for its benefit. but it has been compelled to compete with the pauper labor of every country In the world. Capital in America finding that it could not control labor as had been done in the past undertook to overcome the influence and power of organized labor by going to other countries and taking up the criminal. cheap. pauper labor and bringing it to America to compete with honest American labor to cut down the wages of American labor. What man will stand for such conduct unholy. unrighteous. intolerable? This bill is in the direction. not of preventing the labor itself from being imported but it goes a step beyond that and prevents the importation of the products of labor made in other countries by criminals. convicts. and paupers of such countries.
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Immigrant labor is described as 'criminal, cheap, pauper labor' used to undermine American labor.