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contrary, there is much more than ample supply of labor in Arizona for all purposes
 now. Drastic. restriction of Mexican immigration might prevent unemployment
 from becoming an acute problem in Southwest.
S. P. CARPENTER,
Secretary-Treasurer Arizona State Federation of Labor.
The CrairMaN. Now we will proceed.
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STATEMENT OF FRED J. HART, MANAGING EDITOR, CALIFORNIA
FARM BUREAU MONTHLIES:

Mr. Hart. My name is Fred J. Hart. I was born in the State of
Washington, from which your chairman comes. I am now a lettuce
and seed grower in Salinas Valley, Calif. I have lived there since
1912, although I was fortunate enough to be born in the State of
Washington, on a peasant farm. of which all of western Washington
is composed.
The Cuairman, What kind of a farm?
Mr. Hart. A peasant farm. I am trying to tell you now why I
went to California. I labored in the field——
; The CraIRMAN (interposing). What do you mean by “peasant
arm’’?
Mr. Hart. That is what I am going to tell you. I labored in the
fields; my mother labored in the field ; my sisters labored in the
field, and with the exception of very few farms in western Washington—and
 I refer to the valleys also—we have what I consider
peasant farms, and by ‘“peasant farm’ I mean a place where a man
has to labor so cheaply that in order to exist, his children and his
wife must labor in the field, and I was raised on that kind of a farm.
My sister is trying to make a living on that kind of a farm to-day in
western Washington. :
The CuatrMAN. Where is it located?
Mr. Harr. In the Sumner and Puyallup Valley. My brother lives
on that kind of a farm to-day and has to work for the State to support
his family. The farms in western Washington—and that is your territory,
 Mr. Chairman—are all small farms., I lived there until 1912,
and I worked for 16% cents an hour in the wintertime. I got 20 cents
an hour in the summer time, because labor was a little scarcer. I
tried to go to school, and my dad tried to send me, and if I could
have had $10 a month I could have finished my education, but my
father could not furnish the $10 a month, and when I had an opportunity
 to go to a place where I heard they paid good wages and where
there was some opportunity to make some money, I went to California,
 and I live in California to-day and I am making money to-day
in California and I am sending some of it up there to help my folks
who live on those peasant farms in the State of Washington, where
they don’t have Mexican help, and where they don’t have help to
the extent that my sister has to do the field work, and I say to you
that I am a good American citizen; my ancestors have lived here for
200 years in this country, and I am entitled, and so is my sister entitled,
 to what we call an American standard of living. Now. then,
[ moved to California—
The CuAIRMAN (interposing). Wait a minute before you move.
Let us see what happened up in the valley. Land is pretty valuable
in there, is it not, in Puyallup and Sumner Valley?