The Democratic Party in the House and Senate was so strong in their position on the question. and the question was so strong. that we passed it over. that veto and put it on the statute books. although .your party. which had been in power for 40 years. had never dared to toiich it. Why? Because the big iron and steel corporation and other big manufacturing corporations that wanted to employ this cheap foreign labor instead of American laborto dlisplace the American employeeopposedany restriction of immigration of foreign labor. It remained for the Democratic Party in the House and the Democratic Party in the Senate to override the demands and the protests of the big tarifffiittened corporations. and pass a fair immigration act to protect American labor against this cheap. freelist pauper labor that had been. inder the Republican control. flooding the American labor market for 40 years. Now. to the pending amendments. The gentleman from Ohio raised a very important qiestion when lie asked the gentleman from Michigan [Mr.
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Foreign labor is described as 'cheap' and displacing American employees.