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. The Cuatrman. I am having placed in the record two letters from
the Central Labor Council of Los Angeles, Calif., containing informasion
 with regard to the labor situation in that vicinity.
(The matter referred to is here printed in full as follows:)
CENTRAL Lasor CouNnciL oF Los ANGELES,
Los Angeles, Calif., January 29. 1930.
CommiTTEE ON IMMIGRATION,
House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.
Greetings: The Los Angeles Central Labor Council desires to lay before your
committee a very urgent request for favorable aetion upon the Welch bill, which
has for its purpose the regulation of immigration from the Philippine Islands.
This council, representing over 50,000 organized workers in Los Angeles County,
can not help but feel the effects of the immigration of these orientals to our shores,
and, as the members of your committee must be well aware, it is creating a condition
 parallel to that which was created by the immigration of Chinese ecoolies and
later by Japanese to this coast.
The Filipino is unassimilable by the Caucasian race. He lives at a standard,
both morally and otherwise, far below that of the American and, at a lower
standard of wages, is forcing his way into many, many industries, to the exclusion
of American citizens.
May we therefore respectfully urge favorable action by your committee upon
che Welch bill, to the end that our already proven-to-be-wise legislation barring
other orientals who by law can not become citizens of the United States. from
immigrating to our shores.
Verv truly vours.

J. W. BuzzgLy,
Secretary-Treasurer, Los Angeles Central Labor Council.

CentrAL LABOR CouUNnciL oF Los ANGELES,
Los Angeles, Calif., January 29, 1930.
To the CoMmMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION,
House of Representatives, Washinglon, D. C.
Greetings: The Los Angeles Central Labor Council, representing as it does
the organized workers of Los Angeles and vicinity, has occasion to know from
actual contaet the conditions which have been developed by the constant and
anrestricted immigration of labor from Mexico particularly and other South
and Central American nations generally.
This unrestricted immigration has, in ever-increasing numbers, brought to the
Southwest hordes of people who are not Caucasians, and consequently slow,
and in most instances impossible of assimilation, until they are gradually overwhelming
 the cities and towns of that territory; and a statement to the writer
by a former consul of Mexico particularly illustrates the magnitude of this
immigration, when he showed records to the undersigned which indicated that
Los Angeles is the fourth city in the world in Mexican population. In other
words, that there are but three native cities in the Republic of Mexico that
have a greater population of Mexican nationals than does the American south.
west metropolis, Los Angeles.
The presence alone of these unassimilable people is not the only danger that
tomes from unrestricted immigration. They are encouraged to come in hope of
finding employment under conditions that perhaps are an improvement over
what they left behind in their home country, but they bring to the United States
and to its people a standard of living and of wages far below that of Americans,
until it is no uncommon thing to find industries, certain parts of which have been
turned over entirely to Mexican peon labor at from $2.25 to $2.75 per dav, to the
Jtter exclusion of Americans.
In urging your committee to make a favorable recommendation upon the
measure now before Congress which proposes to apply the immigration quota
law to Mexico and other countries of the Western Hemisphere, we desire to call
your attention to several unusual circumstances which contain a great source of
danger, unless such restrictive legislation is enacted.
. First, there is every reason to believe that the Boulder Canyon project will,
In the not too distant future, become a reality, and we estimate that this job
alone will emplov several thousand men. a large maioritv of which will be elassed