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Mr. Pavomares. Yes; and their replies would not be fit to repeat
before this committee.
Mr. Free. They are citizens of the United States from the Eastern
States generally?
Mr. ParoMares. Yes, sir.
Mr. Free. Is that the element you term “fruit tramps’?
Mr. ParomarEes. Some of them are.
Mr. ScaneipeR. The fruit and cotton industries maintain you?
Mr. Pavomares. Yes. They are producing as much as before,
except as I said before, we curtailed last year owing to the frost.
Mr. ScanerpeRr. Has it increased during the last.10 vears?
Mr. Pavomares. I do not know.
The CrarirMaN. You can some fruits in the San Joaquin Valley?
Mr. Paromares. We have two canneries in my territory.
The Crarman. Have you Mexican people working there?
Mr. Paromargs. No, sir.
The CratRMAN. You have a lot of raisin factories there?
Mr. ParMARES. Yes, sir.
The .CurairMAN. And are the Mexicans going in there?
Mr. Paromares. No, sir. |
The CHatRMAN. Not one?
Mr. Pavomares. Not one; they advertise in our district for help
and then advertise for white help.
The Cramrman. No Mexican help in those territories working in
hose factories?
Mr. Frex. I think I have never seen a Mexican employed in the
fruit canneries of California.
The CrairMAN. Are the Japanese employed in the fruit canneries?
Mr. Paromares. No, sir. Besides looking after bringing the labor
in, we look after their welface. We try to get the best in them, and
make an effort to reach the hearts of these people.
The CuairmanN. What is your nearest place, San Francisco or Los
Angeles?
Me. ParoMargs. San Francisco.
The CaatrMaN. Where do your poor ones go?
Mr. Paromares. We have poor in San Francisco and poor in Los
Angeles.
The Cramrman. Is it not the desire of those who get sick in your
valley to go to the cities?
Mr. Paromares. No, sir. They are taken care of. I have gone
to them in desperation and asked them to give me their able-bodied
families to make them self-subsistent. I paid the public charges and
the transfer transportation for 30, and they became self-subsistent,
and bought automobiles, and left for home in their own transportation.
The Crarrman. What do you mean by “home”?
Mr. Paromares. Some of them lived in Texas, and some in southern
 California and some in New Mexico. I had one little American
family that stayed two days and then left. I want to be fair to all of
these races.
In conclusion, Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I offer myself
as an exhibit in this case as one who came of Spanish ancestry; whose
ancestors were citizens of Mexico, as well as others who are citizens
nf our fair country.