To the editor:

For almost a century, politicians and others wishing to protect skilled, white workers from the competition of “cheap colored labor” (as a supporter of the country’s first minimum wage law put it) have promoted these laws as a device for keeping relatively unskilled workers out of labor markets. where only by offering to work for less could they hope to compete with better skilled, more productive, established white workers. 

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