Forgive me for pausing here, Mr. Chairman, but what company in good conscience in my opinion would suppress wages in a U.S. Territory on the finding that more than 300 Samoan women cleaning fish in the Territory for 27 cents an hour somehow is inferior, inferior in its quality of its work performance to stateside employees being paid $1 an hour?
Faleomavaega criticizes wage suppression in American Samoa's tuna industry.
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