We have established minimumwage scales and maxmumhour regulations to protect our workers. We have done more to make the worker satisfied. to educate him and his family. to see that he is properly housed. and to guard his health than any other nation in the world. Now. because the foreign traders through their propaganda are admittedly successful in winning over legislators to their point of view. are we to be a party to the encouragement of these conditions abroad by admitting to our markets the products of pauper labor? Repeatedly upon this floor I have pointed out that we have the best labor in all the worldthe best trained. best educated. best housed and clothed. Our workers are accustomed to a standard of living. and rightly so. that is far above that of workers abroad.
Identified stereotypes
Foreign workers are characterized as 'pauper labor' who threaten the standard of living of American workers.