Speech #760017103

That is true. Let me say in this connection that I have been informed that one of the largest department stores in the city of New York giving employment to hundreds of American men and women had made arrangements to discharge about 8 out of every 10 of those clerks in order to make room for some refugees who were coming to the United States. The poor men and women who were employed in that store raised so much hell about it that the store executives became afraid to take the action and backed down. In reference to that. I will say to the Senator that I am going to make very diligent inquiry as to the truth or falsity of that statement. and whatever truths I learn about it I will expect to provide the Members of this body upon the floor of the Senate the knowledge I obtain. for I think any individual. organization. corporation. or association In this country that will even contemplate discharging Americans from employment in order to make room for aliens from across the sea ought to be exposed to the American people.