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Mr. Moore. The second time? No, if you catch a man in here who
has been deported, he is evidently of criminal tendencies, and we do
not want him in this country.
Now in all these arguments here—we have millions, hundreds of
millions, billions of dollars invested out here in this empire that you
see on the map there, a third of the country, and with one stroke of
the pen you just say, “We will stop it immediately. There will be
no more.” What are you going to offer us? Are you going to put us
into bankruptey out there in that country that we have built up and
pioneered for &amp; hundred years? That is the situation. We are willing
to come into this situation here with any of the people in the United
States, and if a fact-finding commission can sit down and thrash thie
thing out and show an answer that is satisfactory, we will not be commg
 back here every year. This is the third trip I have made here in
three successive years in an effort to save ourselves from being starved
out of the country that we have built up and grown up in since 1849
when we settled it. Now we are faced with this trouble we have been
having on the coast out there. Many papers have been full of headlines
 showing the race riots in the Watsonville territory. In fact,
they even killed a man out there. Last summer in Exeter a gang of
Filipinos attacked the foreman on a ranch and mashed him, and inside
of about 12 hours there wasn’t a Filipino left in the district.
Mr. Box. Where was that?
Mr. Moore. In Exeter, Calif. Two weeks ago in Imperial Valley
my people down there asked me to come down there. They were
having a strike with their Mexican labor. I went down there to sce
what it was about, and I found that they had set up a wage scale
with a minimum for the summer time of $9 a day for field labor. Can
you eat cantaloupes in the East here on field labor based on $9 a day?
Mr. Box. What labor?
Mr. Moore. Mexican labor, field labor.’
Mr. Box. Who put them up to charging $9 a day?
Mr. Moore. Just a minute and I will tell you. I made a little
investigation on the side and returned to Los Angeles and refused to
acknowledge that there was a strike. The Mexican consul in
Calexico wrote me a letter saying he was very much hurt by the fact
that I had not given them the courtesy of waiting on this committee of
striking Mexicans. I told him if he would investigate the situation
he would find that the Filipinos had instigated it and were at the
bottom of it. I got a letter from his legal representative just before
I left Los Angeles to come on this trip, saying that through their legal
department they had made an investigation of this strike and found
out that the Filipinos had come into the valley and gone to the
mutual association and gotten them to strike and then stepped in
and took their jobs. That is the sort of thing that happens with the
Filipinos.” We don’t have that with the Mexicans. There is nothing
like that at all with them.
The CrairMaN. What is the Mexican Mutual?
Mr. Moore. It is a mutual benefit association. They pay certain
dues into it and take care of themselves when they are sick. their
families, and so forth. It is a very laudable cause.
Mr. Box. Now, we have had several of those race troubles in Texas
with the Mexicans. We have had men who do not have proper regard