Speaker. .since it is claimed by the unthinking that this Congress .was dominated -by Wall Street and in the interest of capital. let..me also :call attention to the measures passed and enacted into law in the interest of the working men and women. This table is found on page 76 of the report of the executive -council of the American Federation of Labor to the fortysecond annual convention: 1. Limiting immigration until June 00. 1922. to :3 per cent of the number of foreign horn of any nationality in the United States accordiug to the census of 1910. (Public. -No. 5.) 2. Extending the expiration of the 3 per cent immigration law to 3. Increasing the number of years to five instead -of -one that for- eigners must live in Canada. Cuba. or Mexico before entering the United States. .4. Penalizing steamship companies that bring more than the quota .of any .nationality .provided In the immigration law. 5. Appropriating $5.000.000 for purchase of seed grain and of feed fo farmers in cropfailure areas of United States. (Public. No. 177.) -6.
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