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any specific statement as to the exact financial condition of any of
our groups, because that is not my responsibility, and you can see,
representing all of those groups, it would be impossible for me to keep
track of the details.
The CrairMaN. I see you are in about the same position as some of
the gentlemen that are trying to do some investigation for us. The
territory covered is pretty large.
Mr. Tavror. Yes; that is true, but I know about their problems
on these things that they give me to investigate and to develop the
facts on. I am familiar with that part of it. ‘
The CramrMAN. Do you know any factories in all of California, or
any of these institutions that you speak for, that use Mexicans in the
factories?
Mr. TayLor. Not so far as I know. I would not say that there are
not any. You can take most any group and you will find occasionally
 2 man here and there drift in out of the regular order, but as a
rule they are not there. So far as I know, I do not know of any.
Mr. Box. How many cotton mills do you have in your State?
Mr. Tayror. I do not know.
Mr. Box. Do you know that in El Paso, Tex., 90 odd per cet
of the employees in the textile mills are Mexicans?
Mr. Tavror. I am not familiar with that.
Mr. Box. Do you know that 90 odd per cent of the people in the
textile mills in San Antonio are Mexicans?
Mr. Tayror. I am not familiar with that situation.
Mr. Esterny. What kind of help do you have in your hosiery
mills of Los Angeles?
Mr. Tavror. I do not know. I am not familiar with the hosiery
business.
Mr. EsTterLY. How is the grape business?
Mr. Tavror. The grape business is in bad shape.
Mr. EsterrLy. Don’t they report increased shipments to the East
in the last 10 years?
Mr. Tavror. Yes, sir. Of course, you recognize that during the
war everybody was encouraged to go into production, to produce
as much as they could and as fast as thev could.
Mr. Esterry. Of grapes?
Mr. Tayror. Everything, food of all kinds. And that was done.
Our California people, along with everybody else, undertook to
come to the Nation’s aid and produce all the foodstuffs of every kind
they possibly could.
Mr. EsteLy. Did the Volstead Act rather help in increasing the
grape acreage?
Mr. Tayror. I could not answer that question. I don’t know.
The Cramrman. We are very much oblized to you, Mr. Taylor,
for your testimony.
Mr. Tayror. I would like to submit this brief.
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