I regret very much that I have to indicate to the gentleman from New York that at such time as his amendment will be offered I shall be compelled to do my very best to convince the Committee that it is not necessary. In this legislation we have tried our very best in more than one instance to protect the interests of the American workingman. We have gone to great lengths to try to do this and to write into this bill some affirmative requirements so that the American workingman may be protected from an inflow of mass immigration from any area of the world. We have made this applicable to the preference categories set up in the bill. the third preference. the sixth preference and the nonpreference categories as well as the Western Hemisphere. So for those reasons and fact that I am fully convinced that we have taken every precaution that we possibly can to write into this bill restrictions which go to the very heart of protecting American labor.
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