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The Cuarrman. You think there are no people of Mexican ancestry
engaged in the industries?
Mr. Harr. Well, it depends on how much blood you would have
to have in the ancestry. It is my honest conviction that there are no
Mexican people employed in these places.
Mr. Box. None employed in the canneries in your State?
i. Harr. None in the canneries. I am talking of the Salinas
alley.
Mr. Frere. That is general over the State.
Mr. Hart. That may be true of San Jose too.
The Crarman. You go down to the Texas border, though, and you
#ill find those cities that originally were Mexican are more than 50
per cent Mexican.
Mr. Harr. That is, they were originally Mexican, and now they are
about 50 per cent Mexican?
The CrairMAN. More than 50 per cent. El Paso, for instance.
Mer. Hart. The first generation or the second and third?
The Cuairman. All generations.
Mr. Hart. Well, I live, of course, with the second generation and
she third generation of the Mexicans. Our most prominent people,
some of them, are second and third generation of Mexicans, and 1
don’t know anybody that I like any better or admire any more or
shat has any better position in our community or are better citizens.
The Cuarrman. That is very fine.
Mr. Hart. You can see I can talk from personal experience and I
do not have that fear, and I say honestly to you that of all the labor
that comes the Mexican is the best fitted for the situation and the
least of a menace to the civilization of the country.
The CuarrmMan. Didn’t the people around in your vicinity set up
quite a yell one time not so long ago against the Armenians and
Syrians?
Mr. Harr. Not in our community. The Armenians come in
around Fresno. I don’t know about them.
The CuairmaN. They get along nicely there now?
Mr. Harr. They seem to get along pretty well. Of course the
Armenian is in a little different situation. He comes in as an owner
of vineyards and goes right along, but you don’t find the Mexican
buying land and settling down and doing those things, except the old
ancestry that came through grants and through that property coming
down. But this Mexican that I am telling you about, he has his
mother with him, sometimes he has his grandmother. He takes care
of the family and they live together in their home and they are clean
and they dress nice, particularly the men and women dress nice and
Bre clean, and they take care of their families, and when they are
through at my place they move over to a neighboring place, and when
they are through in my valley you will find them up at San Jose
Picking prunes, and Vince Garrod, a personal friend of mine, says
that he has one family that has been coming to him regularly for 10
Years until this year when they had sickness and could not come, and
he doesn’t know what he is going to do. That Mexican family has
heen coming just as regular as clockwork and they come right to
Is farm.
. Our minimum wage in the San Joaquin Valley for farm labor
18 35 cents an hour. You can’t find that anywhere else in the country.