Today the statistics on unemployment are narrowed down to a very slim field and. with statistics being what they are. we fail to count the millions of people in this country who are not in the labor market business. because of the economic programs such as Social Security pensions. organized welfare and relief of all kinds. As a result. no true picture can really be given as to the drain upon our employment resources by the impact of imports. Future historians will wonder what type of economics we were studying and practicing that we took such a stlff and unrelenting position on the restriction of immigrants who we feared would crowd the labor market. and at the same time we allowed the products made by these wouldbe immigrants to flood the American Marketplace and take the jobs away from our industries and peoplejust as surely as if we had let them come In and go to work in our plants. Finally I say that I am willing to cooperate. as I do not believe we sLould do anything to upset the economy of so many nations. but there are two things I would do if I had the power and felt the need as strongly as I do. First.
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