The 30hour week would lose most of its charm and its attraction if it is accompanied by a reduction in wages proportionate thereto. The able Senator from Alabama . who sponsors this legislation. has repeatedly expressed his hope that the net result would not be a reduction in pay proportionate to the reduction in working hours. but how can a proportionate reduction in pay be avoided if we are opening the American market to a competition from foreign production that is not similarly restricted in respect to hours of labor? There is not a Senator in this Chamber who would dare to propose to repeal or relax our immigration restrictions today. There is not a man who would stand upon the floor of the Senate and propose any such relaxation. Why not0 Because that relaxation would bring into the United States new competition by way of foreign labor for the poor supply of jobs now available for our own men.
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