To some extent these foreign labourers are said to make new industries, and not to enter into direct and disastrous competition with native workers.

In most cases, however, direct competition between foreign and native workers does exist, and, as we see, the comparatively small number of the foreign immigrants compared with the aggregate of native workers, is no true criterion of the harm their competition does to low-waged workers.

Whether this country will find it wise to reverse its national policy of free admission to outside labour, it is not easy to predict.

The point should not be misunderstood.

Free admission of cheap foreign labour must be admitted _prima facie_ to be conducive to the greatest production of wealth in this country.