This means they are paid from 8 to 15 cents a day. and no more. It means a total income of about $30 a year. Now they say to you. "Well. if we enforce the minimum of 25 cents an hour. we are going to ruin this industry." The facts are. whether you enforce the wage and hour minimum or not. this industry is gradually disappearing from Puerto Rico. not because of wages and hours. because wages and hours have not been in force down there. but because these same chislers who found the New York labor market too high for them. who went to Puerto Rico. have now gone into Asia. because they find that the coolie wages in Asia are much more satisfactory to them than the very low wages in Puerto Rico. So that gradually the needlework from Puerto Rico is being transferred to Asia by the same type of chislers that came to Puerto Rico in order to escape the decent working conditions that were forced upon them in New York. . I think the Congress should know these facts. because wages and hours is being blamed for the destruction of this industry.