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think they are doing a wonderful work. We have been able to pay
higher wages to this so-called “stoop labor’ than other places pay
in the United States for their farm labor, because we have believed in
sooperative marketing. But how can you help us on one side, with
sooperative marketing and then with one stroke of the pen wipe out
the very thing that has made it possible to build those things and
pay good wages?
Mr. Box. The Farm Board tells the people who produce, I will
say, cotton—and it can be said of vegetables, for 1 know a great
many people who suffer from an overproduction of vegetables—they
say we are making a tremendous surplus of cotton. They have pointed
that out in their official reports, very dignified and able reports.
Then they also point out that a big lot of the cotton area has been
areatly enlarged, and the area they point out is the area cultivated
by these people—so our cotton farmers say, and they say, ‘Why
talk to me about cutting my cotton crop when you are bringing in
two, three, four, or ten million acres of more cotton to be cultivated
by alien labor, by large owners, and we who live on our farms and
make small crops of cotton are asked to cut our crop, and you go to
Mexico and bring Mexicans here to make the surplus larger?” You
see how the other farmer feels.
Mr. Hart. I believe in cooperative marketing. I believe in cooperative
 marketing just because it meets the situation you are talking
 about. I do not believe in subsidies. If you will let us alone I
don’t care about any subsidy.
The Cuarrman. But, my dear sir, all the people—
Mr. Box (interposing). Let him answer, Mr. Chairman. I made
a statement in general and he is entitled to reply.
Mr. Harr. I say that cooperative marketing is the only type of
marketing that will take care of that kind of a thing, that if we
produce too much we have got to cut it down. Why do you suppose
I am planting seed this time instead of so much lettuce? Why do
vou suppose I am raising onions—by the way, I had to sell them for
90 cents the other day and I took a loss. I don’t know whether that
has anything to do with tariff. I made money on them last year,
though.
Mr, Box. Are your people losing money this year?
Mr. Hart. Yes. I have Australian Browns, as fine an onion as
there is anywhere, and I sold them at a loss this year. I hope to make
something on them next year. - I am not going to plant so many.
When we get less for our stuff, the fellow who is on the marginal land,
that should not be producing those things because the land is not
fitted for it, automatically goes into something else. Now, if we can
get cooperative marketing to cover our products, we will automatically
level our supply to the demand. That is what we believe out there,
and that is why we believe in cooperative marketing. We don’t
believe you should stimulate a production and keep a fictitious price
here because I am human enough to want to get that as loug as I can,
but when I am in an organization where I get the price level, I have
to adjust my production. Otherwise our level gets too low. I have
answered your question as best I can. } }
As a resident of California, and the Salinas Valley in particular, I
want to emphatically state that from extended contact with the Mex-105266—30——14
