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Mr. McInnis. They operate commissaries. We furnish them the
commissary cars and we furnish them free ice and free water, and
I believe, free fuel, if I am not mistaken; and they assemble these
laborers.
Mr. SceNEIDER. And as a result of running these commissaries,
they make enough profit in order to compensate them for gathering
up this horde of Mexicans who are furnished to your company?
Mr. McInnis. T presume that is so.
Mr. ScuNEIDER. And their incentive is to get as many Mexicans
onto the Santa Fe Railroad as they possibly can, because of the
profit in looking after the commissary and after their employment?
Mr. McInnis. They have no way of putting &amp; man on our railroad
unless with our consent.
Mr. ScaNemEr. But I say they are naturally interested in supplying
 as many Mexicans as you want?
Mr. McInnis. That I do not know.
Mr. ScuaNEIDER. Are you sure there is no labor in Chicago?
Mr. McInnis. We do not hire our labor there.
Mr. ScaneipER. Why do you not?
Mr. McInnis. Because if we did, we would have to haul it 3,000
miles to the place where it was needed.
Mr. ScuNEIDER. You would not have to haul it 3,000 miles in
order to use it in Illinois and Kansas?
Mr. McInnis. They do not furnish us with labor in Kansas.
Mr. ScuneipErR. Where do you get those laborers?
Mr. McInnis. They are picked up locally.
The Crarrman. Where do you pick up those employees that you
send out all along the railroad to run the Harvey restaurants. I am
talking about your waiters and waitresses. They are advertised for
in Chicago, and you send them out all along the line.
Mr. McInnis. Our waiters?
The CuAarrMAN. Yes.
Mr. McInnis. We have nothing to do with the waiters on our
lines. That service is operated by Fred Harvey.
The CrarrMAN. So that he is the man who does that advertising?
Mr. McInnis. I do not know what advertising you are speaking
of. We do a great deal of advertising, and I presume Fred Harvey
does the same also.
Mr. DicksTEIN. Do you not have white men doing the same
kind of work along the line as the Mexicans?
Mr. McInnis. I do not know. I presume that is in the eastern
territory.
Mr. DicksTEIN. Are they not paid the same, the common labor,
as Mexicans working along the road?
Mr. McInnis. Yes; their pay will be the same. The job is worth
a certain amount.
The Cuarrman. Let us get the lowest price you pay for that labor.
Mr. McInnis. Do you want the minimum?
The CuairmaN, Yes.
Mr. McInnis. Have you any objection if I put in the maximum,
also?
The CuarrmMan. We would like to have it. T want the average
wage for common labor.