I hold no brief for the Aluminum Trust or for the big concerns which are getting tariff protection and do not need it at all I believe in the tariff policy of the Democratic Party as enunciated in our national conventions of the past. wherein it is stated that we believe in equal protection as to the difference in wages and cost of production for the American manufacturers as against foreign importers. If we are going to keep up our standards of living. we must have protection for the American workers. We have radios. we have bathtubs. we have washing machines. and various other things in our homes that they do not have in European countries or Asiatic countries. and if we are going to keep up the American standard of living we must protect the worker and the manufacturer and the farmer in the United States against the importation of goods made abroad under sweatshop conditions. poor wages. and then sent into this country and sold under the American market prices. We cannot keep up our standard of living unless we have this weapon of defense in this bill. Under the public recovery bill we are to license manufacturers.
Identified stereotypes
European and Asian countries are associated with lower standards of living and sweatshop conditions.