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Tariff clash over wage-earners and wartime pivots
The Republican National Publicity Committee argues that tariff policy under Wilson harmed American breadwinners. It cites Bureau of Labor figures and trade data from 1912 to 1914, claiming imports rose as tariff protection waned employment, and warns that postwar conditions would again plunge workers into poverty. It emphasizes wartime demand buoyed wages, then predicts layoffs when war ends.
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