Our American workers should have some sort of protection. likewise. from -the competition of bonded labor"-labor that is brought over the border and into our own backyard. In case you might think this is a local. and isolated danger. let me remind you of the concern expressed by people living in the State of Iowa. which is not on any border. but is situated almost in the center of the United States. At the 1953 convention of the American Federation of Labor. the Iowa State Federation of Labor introduced a resolution objecting to the action taken by the United States Government in allowing the immigration of certain skilled nonagricultural workers. The Iowa Federation stated that these skilled workers were imported to work at substandard wages on jobs for which domestic workers were already available. The Department of Labor has been alerted to the necessity of carefully checking all requests by employers to import workers. and of consulting with appropriate labor organizations in the United States. before approving any of these requests.
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