Mr. Chairman. this discussion has reached a very wide scope. indeed. The gentleman refers to the deportation of men in Michigan. When I referred to a Democratic administration in the State of Michigan. I made that reference with the greatest of respect for the present Democratic governor of that State. whom I admire for his courage. for the sincerity of his convictions. and for his honesty of purpose. The chairman of that committee. the gentleman from Maryland stated that if goods made by child labor under 14 years of age in foreign countries were excluded from our markets it would. in his judgment. exclude all goods. because he knows. and so does every other man here know. that in every European country child labor under 14 years of age is employed in the production of the goods that come into the United States in competition with honest American labor. enjoying the American standard of wages and living. Yet. gentlemen on that side of the House have recently passed an immigration bill that. if enacted into law. will exclude from the United States any child under 16 years of age who is not accompanied by a parent. It will exclude laborers from foreign countries coming to the United States seeking a home and honest employment here. and the purpose of that bill is to protect organized labor as well as unorganized labor in this country by keeping away from our shores labor from any other country in the world. Yet when it comes to this question those gentlemen are in favor of striking from this bill an amendment that will exclude from our markets the products of the cheap labor of children under 16 years of age made in any country in the world.
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Foreign laborers are described as a threat to American labor and wages.