While the Democratic administration was watchfully waiting to see when this trend toward hardship and want would cease. it did nothing to prevent it. and the surplus continued to grow at the rate of 5.000 and then 10.000 per week until a total of 5.550.000 was reached less than 12 weeks after Mr. Wilson retired. following upon the defeat of his candidate by a majority of 7.000.000 of.votes. The Republican Congress remedied this condition when it came into power by stopping the immigration of foreign labor. used to cheaper standards of living. and by enacting a tariff sufficiently high to protect American industry. and therefore American wage earners. from an inundation of goods made in countries where lower wages And standards prevail. President Harding also called a conference on unemployment. which devised ways and means of .checking the downward economic LXV677 trend. This conference. which was impartially selected. adopted progressive remedies. such as the stimulation of building activity.
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Foreign labor used to cheaper standards of living.