[CodeToad]

""do jobs that Americans won't do for that wage"?"


Sure, but wasn't that the same argument used to keep slavery intact, that business would suffer?

[P-40]

Sure, but wasn't that the same argument used to keep slavery intact, that business would suffer?

http://www.cis.org/articles/1999/back1299.htm

Aware that the federal government was supplying West Coast growers with Mexicans, East Coast producers demanded access to foreign workers as well. The offer was not long in coming. In April of 1943, Congress passed Public Law 45, a remarkable piece of legislation. It allowed for the expansion of the farm labor supply program, so long as federal funds were not used to improve the wages or conditions of American farmworkers. It froze American farmworkers where they were, allowing them to take a job on a farm elsewhere only if their local county agricultural extension agent said they could. And it reserved the federal migrant labor camps for foreign workers. Men and women from the Bahamas began departing for Florida almost immediately, and negotiations soon began to extend the migration program to Jamaican men.

[clawrence3]

Please cite for me the "wage" paid to African slaves.