210 WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

As a farmer, I want to leave this thought with your committee:
If you pass this bill and do not provide help to take the place of those
you thereby exclude, I will have to go back in my farming operations
to the production of grain in direct competition with the Middle West
which 1s now overproduced. And I rode through that country—I am
not going to tell you what I thought of it, but I was certainly sorry
for it, and I will have to go back In my farming in competition with
them, and this means that the products from my 135-acre ranch,
which now brings at least $75,000 f. o. b. Salinas, of which fully
65 per cent now goes directly into the pockets of.the white workers
living in the Salinas Valley, will bring instead, f. 0. b. cars in Salinas,
not more than $5,000, and I can show you the figures to prove it.
That is what I was producing on that same ranch in barley. I
raised Chevralier barley, and that is what my stuff would be worth
f. 0. b. cars. Now here I am producing something that is worth
$75,000, and I submit to you if that is not a help to labor and to the
white folks that we are so proud of, and of which we are a part, that
they can draw union wages out of that $75,000, and if you will
multiply my ranch by all the ranches in the Salinas Valley, you
will see what it means to organized labor throughout the United
States, 100 cars from my ranch rolling here, probably 24 or 25 stopping
at Chicago, the balance rolling east.
What does that mean in locomotives, in trains, in cars, in railroad
aelp, and what does it mean when those fellows take that money and
go out and spend it in their homes? You can see the endless chain,
san you not, of what it means to organized labor? And I am convinced
 that I have got to, in order to protect myself, tell organized
labor of the Pacific coast the fact that this thing means more to
them than they think to put over against this sentimental thing that
Paul Sherrenberg and some of those fellow, without consulting their
own men about, send you a telegram and say, “We are opposed to
those fellows.” 1 know Paul Sherrenberg and some of those other
fellows, and I can show the labor unions in dollars and cents, but it
will take some time, but I am convinced I have got to do it in order
to protect my own industry. And I am selfish in that. I am selfish
for my family and I am selfish for my community and for my country,
 and I know that I have the facts and can prove it. It is going to
take time but I do ask that you folks give us some time.
Mr. Box. You will have to convince your California people.
Mr. Hart. Yes.
Mr. Box. I am talking about what they write members of this
committee.
Mr. Free. May I interrupt right there, Mr. Chairman? 1 have
received a letter signed by the greater part of the press of California
opposing these bills, and I would like to insert it in the record.
The Cuammman. I believe that was inserted. Wasn't that the
one from the press committee that went down to Mexico?
Mr. Box. That is the committee that went down to Mexico.
The Crairman. I have no objection to it going in.
(The letter referred to is on file with the committee.)
Mr. Harr. I am just about ready to close, but I do want to say
this, that I can show the labor unions I know, if I have time—and I
have got to do it in order to protect my own self and my own little
investment that I have been able to build up by hard work—and I