That the policy of preference for the citizen and exservice man. in the State where the work is performed. as proposed by him. would operate fully to quiet the discontent which increases to a dangerous point during periods of economic depression. when such citizens and exservice men see aliens preempting jobs they feel belong to them. simply on the score that the aliens labor is cheap. That such a policy would be as much in the interest of the efficient contractor as the worker. It will remove for many contractors the element of unfair competition now suffered by them through the employment by others of cheap alien labor. The contractor in New York or Massachusetts. for instance. today gets his craftsmen from a stable labor market. When he bids he figures on a known labor supply and he knows its cost.
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