Wages have been very generally maintained in the face of the busi:ness depression. through agreements between industrial leaders and the President. the maximum number of employees in industry have been given work on parttime basis. -Through the medium of the Federal. Employment Service and its cooperating offices. 1.408.131 individuals have obtained employment since January 1. 1930. Wage earners .were further protected by an executive order largely curtailing the immigration of foreign workers. which in 5 months resulted in a denlal of 96.883 immigration visas. and reduced nonquots visas from Canada and Mexico from 60.000 to less than 5.000. By action of the Department of Labor. about 20.000 aliens illegally within the United States have been deported. Noteworthy. too. a requirement was made that contracors for public buildings pay the prevailing local wage scale where such buildings were erected. The Federal appropriation of $1.000.000 for the rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry was continued for another 3 years.
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