His plea to employer and worker wherever he went was to pull together. to forget old rancors. to pool their common interests in a single partnership for business success. Selling the idea of work and burying the hatchet of industrial discord. however. were only two of the elements which contributed to the success of the administration of Secretary Davis. A believer in tariff on merchandise to protect American industry. he also believed in the principle of protection for labor from the unfair competition of lowpaid alien labor. The first immigration law seeking to restrict the number of aliens permitted to come to America was very difficult In actual operation. We recall the
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