If this be so. and I believe it to be so. then we shall have. at least until the courts can act. a rdstoration of involuntary servitude imposed upon seamen serving on hoard vessels within our jurisdiction. we shall have the old differential in wage cost restored and we shall lose what we now have of efficient American seamen. for all ablebodied. intelligent. efficient Americans will leave the sea unless proper protection and safeguards are afforded them. If this reversal policy is to be effectuated let it be done openly and without any equivocation. It ought not to be brought here as an illogical appendix to the immigration bill. If we are going to kill the seamens act. let us do it openly and aboveboard. How is such reversal of policy going to appeal to the men without whom w3 can have no merchant marine?
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