Roosevelt. who recently. before a great audience in the auditorium of the United States Chamber of Commerce. speaking on this subject. said that "it is the right of old people who have worked all of their lives and have failed through no fault of their own to make provision. to be cared for in the last few years of their lives. We did it at first in what I believe a terrible waythe poorhouse." In the early beginning of our colonial life of America there was a great scarcity of labor. and good wages were paid compared to wages paid for similar work in the old countries. Immigration companies in England advertised high American wages. There was such a scarcity of labor throughout the colonial period that it influenced customs and legislation and was the cause of the establishment of securing workers by contract. During this period every effort was made to control labor by legislative action in
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