Binn. I understand. was for it. and he was down here lobbying for it. He says the tariff does not give them better conditions than those under which the pauper labor of Europe is living. It was stated by the committee that that was what it was for. Mr. Binn says some other things. He speaks of "the benighted States in the South." and refers to the fact that in some of the other New England States the employees run sometimes from 54 hours to 60 hours a week. He says these mills are a greater menace to the American standard of living than any competition from foreign countries where pauper labor is employed. That is the statement we get from the standpoint of the labor of Massachusetts. They say this competition. if continued indefinitely. can end only in disaster to any industry.
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European labor is 'pauper labor' and a menace to the American standard of living.