Speech #760145378

I want to thank the gentleman in whose district this factory is located. It is my belief that the international headquarters of many industries are going to be moved to the United States of America because of the persecution of dictators in foreign lands. After a careful and personal investigation of the visa headquarters of our Foreign Service. it is my belief that everybody in all parts of the world wants to come to the United States of America to live. and I sympathize with them. What a privilege it is. I am opposed to the action of the Commissioner of Immigration in revoking the permit issued by the Department of Labor on June 9. 1939. to permit the entry into the United States of 100 Czech nationals for supervisory employment at the Bata Shoe Co. plant at Belcamp. Md.. for a period not to exceed 1 year. This order. which is alleged to have been issued without the Bata Shoe Co. even knowing that the approval of the permit was even being considered. is. in my opinion. unjust. discriminatory. and prejudiced against a group of Czech people who are making it possible for nearly a thousand American workers to have a job in favor of thousands of alien refugees who are in this country with the permission of the same Department which is extending the stay of these aliens. who. instead of making jobs for Amercan unemployed people. are taking some of those jobs away from them. If the Department insists on carrying out this revocation. I fear it will result in the closing of a new enterprise which has brought into our country several millions of dollars of new capital and brought to us a new pay roll which eventually may run into many millions of dollars annually.