The Secretary of Labor has recommended this time and time again. In the Seventieth Congress we passed a bill of which I was the author and which put the immigration on a pay schedule that brought them up to near the Customs Service. which is practically the same kind of work. and President Coolidge signed this bill. He expressed himself as being strongly in favor of the provisions of the bill thatprovided an automatic plan. That bill did not provide for overtime pay because it was felt that to ask it would endanger the passage of the bill. The customs inspectors were still favored over the immigration inspectors and are yet favored. There is no just reason why an immigration inspector should be required to work five or six. hours overtime without compensation than any other qmployee of the Government. The steamship companies request the services of these inspectors for the benefit of the steamship companies. and why should they not pay for this special service?
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