Speech #670005728

I say to you not only have we millions of idle men but we read in the press of this week that there have been in the past four months no less than 9.000.000 American laborers who have left the industrial centers of our country and returned to the smaller towns because they could not find gainful occupations in the. congested centers and manufacturing cities. Not only that. but we have standing now on rusting rails in railroad yards a quarter of a million idle box cars. and yet it is proposed to bring aliens here by the thousands and tens of thousands. to furnish them gainful occupations. when our own people are starving for lack of work. I appeal to the lnembership of this House to vote down this amendment and give us legislation that will protect us in our immigration.