He poohpoohed the idea that by legislation we can not interfere with the law of supply and demand. and then announced that we had done It. were doing it. that we did it for labor. we did it for the railways. and did it for the manufacturers. Mr. President. he said we did it for labor by the lmitation on immigration. We did limit the congestion of the labor market In the country by restricting a great influx of European laborwe did thatbut we were limiting the production of labor. The purpose here. however. is not to limit the production of the farmer but to stimulate his production and then to take care of the overproduction. If in behalf of labor we should act on a parity with this proposed law. then we would open our gates to immigration. invite European laborers to come here. and then take care of the increased product of labor by law by providing. "No matter how many laborers we admit "-we do not limit the number-" we will take care of the price of labor." That is the danger in the coal fields today. We have twice the number of coal miners needed to mine the coal required. but the way for us to cure that situation is not to attempt to regulate the price of coal by legislation but to limit the production of coal. In the pending bill. however.
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