We claim that the products of our labor shall have an equal opportunity of sale in American markets with the comparable and competitive products of workers In other countries. This we can secure only through the levying of adequate tariff rates. which rates will. as in the American shipbuilding industry. equalize the difference in production costs. 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.
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