Mr. Speaker. I have had pending for some time a bill placing quota restrictions on Mexico and Canada and other American countries which I am heartily supporting. but that is not what is involved here. and I do not wish to divert your minds from the question before you. This bill is intended to clarify the law and make it. read exactly what your committee understood the law to be when the act of 1924 was written. and what we think you want it.to be now. The decisions were clearly outlined by the gentleman from Michigan . and are to the effect that one coming to the United States to work as a laborer at a job. .or when coming to seek employment. is coming for business within the exception stated in the act of 1924. They hold it to be a temporary visit for the purpose of business. It has not been so understood by the committee nor has the Department of Labor so construed it. This is an effort to carry forward the law as we understood that we had written it. but those provisions have been impaired by these decisions. the effect of which is to nullify the contract labor provisions of the law in so far as they apply to a man coming to work. holding a job he already has. or to seek one. If you will remember the contract provisions of the labor law. they are designed especially to prevent men from going into foreign countries and making contracts with laborers and others and importing them into the United States for that pur.pose. That has been of itself a sufficient reason for exclusion in the administration of the law as it existed heretofore.
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