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Bill Taft: “This imposes a penalty on the domestic labor of cutting and would transfer half the process in the industry of…”

On the recordAugust 17, 1911
This imposes a penalty on the domestic labor of cutting and would transfer half the process in the industry of shoemaking and glove making to foreign countries.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval an Act Removing All Duties on Articles in the Metal,...

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