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CONCLUSION

Now, what kind of a conclusion shall we draw? On the one hand we have the
utopian idealists proposing practical peasantry for our own people on the farms in
order to preserve a pure blood-stream that is already materially diluted; and on
the other a great body of American citizens fighting to save themselves from
economic ruin and social degradation. Is it right that issues of such vital import
to the Nation as a whole shall be settled on a political basis? Both sides admit
the inadequacy and inaccuracy of the statistical data available. Shall we not
therefore be fair and ask our Government to make a thorough and unbiased study
and analysis of the entire situation, securing all the facts upon which a conclusion
and future program may be properly founded?
We are willing to abide by the decision which such a set of facts indicate
regardless of where they point, but we can not do so without a proper foundation
of faet.
The CHATRMAN. Who is vour next witness?

STATEMENT OF CHESTER B. MOORE, LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
MANAGER WESTERN GROWERS PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION

Mr. Moore. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I am going to take
only a very few minutes of your time. Then we want to adjourn,
if we can.
The CHAIRMAN. Are you resident, domicilied in the city of Washington?

Mr. Moore. I am from Los Angeles.
The CHAIRMAN. You are not here permanently?
Mr. Moore. No, sir.
The CualrMAN. Does the chamber of commerce keep some representatives
 here, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce?
Mr. Moore. Yes; they have an office here.
Mr. Freg. Mr. Goodner sitting there is the Washington representative
 of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
The CuarrRMAN. What is his name?
Mr. Moore. I. E. Goodner.
The CHAIRMAN. Very well. You may proceed.
Mr. Moore. I have no connection with the Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce. I am the manager of the Western Growers Protective
Association, which is the vegetable industry of California and Arizona,
 the largest single perishable-commodity shipping group from
the point of tonnage in the United States. Our shipments last year
totaled 130,000 carloads of probably the most highly perishable,
highly specialized commodities produced in this country. We are
feeding the Nation at a time of the year, with these commodities,
with something that you can not get from any other part of the
United States. These vegetables are being consumed by people
who need that sort of thing in their diet, when your entire eastern
country and southern country is frozen up. I am talking this thing
from an economic standpoint.
The Southwest country which we represent out there, including
the south Texas country and Arizona and New Mexico, Colorado,
and California, produced last year over 500,000 carloads of these
perishable commodities at a delivered ‘sales conservatively estimated
of three-quarters of a billion dollars, and over 80 per cent of those
commodities are handled in the fields by Mexican farm labor. Now.
that is a thing that interests me. }
Mr. EsTerLy. What is the net profit on that amount of business?
Me Moore That. sir, is something I could not tell you.