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for the law drive them out of the community. We are not free from
race question with them.
Mr. Moore. With Mexicans?
Mr. Box. Yes. I do not justify that act, you understand. Don’t
misunderstand me there. I am just talking about the facts.
Mr. Moore. All I know of the Mexican, and that is a great deal,
is that I have lived with him 15 years, I speak his language, and 1
know him very well, and I know that he is a peaceable man and
unless something is brought on him by outside influence you are not
going to have race trouble with the Mexican. There is not a record
in the State of California where there has ever been a social crime by
a Mexican, where a Mexican has been convicted of social crime who
was the first or second generation Mexican. They are not that type
of people. They stay with their own people and protect them.
The CHARMAN. You have got some communistic societies in Los
Angeles of Mexicans, have you not?
Mr. Moore. 1 think they have some that Mexicans have joined.
but there never has been any trouble with them.
The CrairmaN. They circulate some communistic literature in
Los Angeles?
Mr. Moorg. I think that is a branch of the C. R. O. M. that
organized in there.
The CrarrRMAN. In the Spanish language?
Mr. Moore. Yes. Now, gentlemen, I do not have anything more
to say, but I just want to file a couple of resolutions which I think
have already been filed with your committee once, from the American
Fruit and Vegetable Shippers Association, which is the receiving
association for all the shippers of the United States, and one from the
Western Fruit Jobbers Association. These resolutions were passed
at the meetings two weeks ago, one in Chicago and one in St. Louis,
asking that nothing be done in connection with this restriction of
Mexican labor until such time as a proper fact-finding investigation
can be had and report made, which they are going to abide by.
(The resolutions referred to are here printed in full, as follows:)
St, Louis, Mo., January 24, 1930.
The Western Fruit Jobbers Association, composed of 700 shippers and receivers.
 in convention assembled
Resolves, That it strongly opposes the proposals now before Congress, known
as the Box and Johnson bills, intended to place Mexican immigrants under the
quota law.
The effect of such action will be to greatly hamper production and harvesting
of crops in the Southwest. where Mexican labor for those purposes is most generally
 used. The inevitable result of curtailment of the supply of Mexican labor
will tend to increase very greatly the cost to the producer and ultimately to so
enhance the price to the consumer as to materially lessen volume of production
and movement through the channels of distribution.
This committee recommends that the members of this association, individually
immediately communicate to their resective Senators and Congressmen their
views in opposition to the legislation above specifically mentioned.
3 2 expected that these bills will be reported bv congressional committees at an
eariyv date.

Cuicaco, Ir, January 19, 1930.
Whereas there has in the last six months been a marked shortage in common
agricultural labor in certain sections of the United States; and
Whereas there has been such a mass of conflicting testimony and evidence
presented to the Immigration Committees of both the Senate and the House of