Notwithstanding the stimulation of employment in the United States due to the unprecedented expenditures of this Government. both at home and abroad. unemployment in this country has increased over one and onehalf million since theend of 1948. and the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated unemployment in July of 1949 to be 4.100.000. which was by far the highest unemployment figure in this country since 1942. The statistics in December 1949 reflect a temporary decline in unemployment to three and onehalf million. The effect of one part of my amendment would be to prohibit the issuance of visas under the proposed Displaced Persons Act when the total number of unemployed in the. labor force of the United States exceeded 4.000.000. In my judgment. this is the least we can do to protect the job of the American workingman. I am aware of tha fact.