Speech #760204489

Y.. has met with unfair foreign competition in the manufacture and dumping in this country of inferior shoes made by underpaid and poorly housed foreigners. and Whereas the Bata Shoe Co. of Czechoslovakia. has constructed a huge factory at Belcamp. Md.. and has imported a number of aliens to this country to manufacture shoes in competition with oldestablished American shoemanufacturing firms: Therefore we. whose names are hereunto subscribed. being all American citizens dependent directly or indirectly on the shoe industry in the county of Broome and State of New York. in the sincere belief that the Bata Shoe Co. of Czechoslovakia. at Belcamp. Md.. in direct competition with us. constitutes a serious threat to the American standard of living and our continued wellbeing. and respectfully request that until conditions in the American shoemanufacturing industry improve. that all of the alien employees in the Bata Shoe Co.. of Czechoslovakia. be deported from the United States. and no more aliens admitted.