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produce articles to compete in the
American market with the products of
the Japanese coolies while the work
ers of England, France, Belgium and
Czechoslovakia are to be employed, at
low wages, in producing articles for
the SELECT in America to purchase.
The beneiciaries of this transfer Of
the JOBS of many thousands of
American workers to workers in for
eign countries are the same old crowd
of ECONOMIC ROYALISTS who
have profited through our entry into
most Of these allegedly Reciprocal
Trade Treaties, The International
Bankers, the Beef Trust and their
closely allied Canning Industry, the
Corn Products Trust, Automobile and
Electric machine producers, the
makers of Office Equipment and APP
pliances (who have so notoriously re-
fused to comply with our laws) the
Tobacco producers, who only recently
denied many thousands of their work
ers JOBS because they would not pay
the 25 cents an hour minimum wage
which American law calls for. Nat
urally, it is apparent to anyone con-
versant with what is happening that
all of these beneficiaries have consist
emily refused to recognize the right
of their workers to BARGAIN COL
LECTIVELY.
Assuming that our State Depart
ment officials read the newspapers
they would realize that President
Roosevelt frowned on the necessity of
any productive American worker be-
ing deprived of his JOB because the
employer would not or even alleged
he could not pay rs cent an hour
wage. Yet, our State Department Of
ficials must know that thousands of
workers in foreign countries who will
secure JOBS in producing articles for
export to American markets, receive
wages as low as 5 cents an hour, and,
in many cases do not know what it is
to be paid as high as 25 cents an hour
while they work 4S or more hours each
week.
AS President Woll so we'll stated to
Assistant Secretary of State Sayre,
at conference held at the State De-
partment some months ago, when pro-
testing against provisions of Recipro-
cal Trade Treaties which transfer the
JOB opportunities of Americas skill
ed workers to the low wage paid
workers of Europe and Japan, "it
should be apparent that it seems to
be the policy and the purpose of these
negotiating these allegedly Reciprocal
Trade Treaties to find market in for
eign countries for the surplus prod
ucts of our Mass Production (ECON-
OMIC ROYALISTS) industries EVEN
when it is necessary to sacrifice the
JOB opportunities of Americas skill
ed workers."
This recent Trade Treaty, as we'll
as the Trade Treaty with Czecho-
slovakia was entered into with full
knowledge on the part of State De-
partment officials that even then ar
ticles produced by workers in foreign
countries, comparable to or competi-
tive with products of Americas work.
ers, were dominating or supplying as
much as 4Ofo and 6OR of the Ameri-
can market.
The slightest inquiry would have
shown that American workers de-
pendent for their JOBS in these COM
peting American industries were un-
employed from 800 to 500 of the
time.
For the past several years officials
Of our Printing Trades Unions have
been forced to spend time, energy and
money in preventing the amendment
Of our Copyright laws which, had
State Department officials been sue
cessful, would have deprived 7l,34O
printing trades workers of JOBS they
now have. The present Copyright
Law requires that before book or
other printed matter, i'll the English
language, can secure all American