We are failing to give due consideration to mounting threats to their livelihood posed by expanding mechanical substitutions for the living arts. we are failing to enforce effectively the guarantees already in our statutes for their protection. For example. Mr. President. there exists an immigration statute which protects the American instrumentalist from cutrate competition by the unregulated entry of alien musicians who contribute nothing of cultural value. That wise statute has long been circumvented indirectly. and the competition has. in fact. been multiplied. by the importation of robot foreign musicians in the form of foreignmade music on film and tape. If it is to be our complacent role to pit the American musician against foreign musicians. let us not be secretive about it.
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