Session #70 · 1927–29

Speech #700110973

In a moment. The Box amendment was before the committee and everybody was for it. but because three railroad men came before the committee and a couple of sugarbeet planters came before the committee you heard no more about the Box resolution..so that all this talk about keeping down the number in order to protect American labor is all bunk. As long as immigrant labor will submit to exploitation and work under miserable conditions at low wages there is no talk of immigration restriction. The committee had opportunity to do it. but they refused to do it. The. hearings had before the committee speak for themselves. Those hearings are full. and fully prove beyond doubt that the Committee on Immigration have not really the- Interests of American labor at heart. I will stand by what is in those hearings. I want to say. in all fairness. that the gentleman from Texas [Mr.
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Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Economic contributor

Speaker & context

Speaker
FIORELLO LA GUARDIA
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
700110973
Paragraph
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