Speaker. that appeals to me in favor of restriction is the one from the laborunion point of view. There is no doubt that tile steady flow to .this country .of large. numbers of unskilled laborers from other countries makes more difficult the great problem of union labor. and with that I sympathize. But I believe that we can help laboring men more inthis country. and labor unions more. not by this crude makeshift policy of exclusion. but by better laws for the distribution of immigrants when they come. and better laws governing the. distribution of wealth which the workers receive in this country. I will go as far as any man in Government action to encourg ge unions. to protect the right of men to organize. but restriction of immigration does not appeal to me as a way of helping the workingman. So Mr. Speaker. for these reasons I shall vote to sustain the Presidents veto.
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