He visited many countries for the purpose of promoting better conditions for seamen and bringing about proper and satisfactory cooperation among those employed upon the ships of the world. I became acquainted with Mr. Furuseth in 1917. and introduced in the Senate measures sponsored by him calculated to improve the conditions of seamen and strengthen our immigration laws by denying entrance into the United States of persons who claimed to be seamen but who were seeking to evade the laws of the United States. Mr. Furuseth was a man of character and ability. a patriotic American who devoted his life and his energies to the intdrests not only of the seamen of the United States but of those who belonged to the ranks of labor generally.
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