The following extract of a communication to me from the National Federation of Construction Industries speaks for itself : It Is evident that a proportional relationship exists between our national requirements for skilled labor and unskilled lhbor. over which we have no control except in so far as our inventive genius may devise tools of production by which the effort of labor is made more effective. Experience has shown that the law of supply and demand applies in employment the same as in the material market. If the supply of unskilled labor in the United States begins to exceed its proportional relationship- to skilled labor. immigration automatically adjusts itself because of. the decreased demand for unskilled labor. Any attempt artificially to regulate the fundamental law of supply and demand in the labor market through the restriction or stoppage of immigration can result only in national disaster. for It will be seen that. if immigration were to be stopped. the necessary proportion which must exist between skilled andunskilled labor.- without -which industry can not survive. could be maintained only by a curtailment of production to permit demotion of labor into unskilled capacities in sufficient numbers to restore the balance which must be maintained between skilled and unskilled labor. The direct result of such curtailment of industry would be disastrous to our national welfare for the reason that the law of supply and demand as it relates to commodities would operate to obtain a higher price level because of decreased production. � Mr. Chairman. in the interest of those who are so unduly alarmed as to the conditions and prosperity of our Nation.
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