However. the decision has been made that import duties are out. and this bill is the only solution that will be offered at this session of Congress. Everyone recognizes the necessity of maintaining a healthy domestic mining industry. It is obvious that our domestic mines cannot operate in competition with the cheap labor to be found in foreign countries. I know that the industry would also prefer to have the quota system. but they have no alternative to accepting this legislation. In time of war we must rely to a great extent on our domestic mines to produce the strategic metals so desperately needed for our war effort. These mines cannot operate only in time of war.
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