Session #79 · 1945–47

Speech #790056866

We lose one pay roll. and then the imported goods compete with the goods from our other pay rolls. GLASS Mr. Harry H. Cook of the Flint Glass Workers Union of Toledo. Ohio. says: We ask this committee and the Congress to reject the legislation now before you. which. if enacted. will permit officials of the State Department to negotiate such reductions in tariff rates as will. we believe. deprive our workers of their opportunities of employment. will nullify the benefits which the Congress has voted to American workers in the enactment of the Fair Labor Standards Act. the restrictive immigration laws. and will jeopardize the continuance of the merchant marine. Mr. C.
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