Session #76 · 1939–41

Speech #760239946

American labor does not com-. pete with foreign labor for the home market. American. industry does not compete with foreigfindustry.in the United States. They are all protected. but the American farmer is in competion with the Chinese coolie. the South American peon. and the European peasant. It is interesting to note that the Washington newspapers. for example. which have been decrying parityprice legislation. which so roundly abused us when we made an appropriation for parity prices. the only thing we could do under the legislation that we hadit was interesting to note that at the time when we were getting $24 for hogs and 35 cents for cotton and $2.20 for wheat those same newspapers were selling on the streets of this city for 1 cent.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about Chinese laborers as economic competition.
Keywords matched
coolie

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
South American peon European peasant
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
CLARENCE CANNON
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
MO
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
760239946
Paragraph
#0
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