Labor costs are higher in this country than in Canada. Fortyfive per cent of the Canadian cedar mill labor is oriental. principally Chinese. (Tariff Commissions report. pp. 2021.) They are in direct and open competition with the American shingle worker. There are not now. and never have been. any orientals employed in the Washington and Oregon shingle mills. We will not allow Chinese and Japanese labor to come here and compete with our labor. Why should we permit the product of such labor to come. at least duty free? Such a policy effectually annuls our exclusion act. How can it be defended?
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