Again they failed. Then the question was taken Into the courts and there was no end to litigation until finally the Supreme Court. by a unanimous decision. held that Congress had a perfect right to pass laws under which seamen coming into the Jurisdiction of the United States should be as free to quit their work as any workingmen within this country. Then recourse was had to the immigration. Vessels on the Pacific came from the Orient with from 50 to 75 per cent more of a crew than their certificate of inspection provided for. They had been inspected In tile United States and the strength of the crew was based upon white men.
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