270 WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

Mr. Cooke. What practical assistance could the Department of
Labor be in supplying labor at a reasonable wage at any point in the
United States?
Mr. Free. I will tell you how efficient this man’s service is. He
has an agency in San Jose, Calif., which is my home town——
Mr. Jones (interposing). We have no office in San Jose. However,
we may cooperate with the State there.
Mr. Free. Is that not the way you operate generally, in cooperation
 with the State offices?
Mr. Jones. We have no office in San Jose. Wé may cooperate
with the State office but it is not ours.
Mr. Free. Is that or is not that the way you operate generally,
in cooperation with the State?
Mr. Jones. Not with our farm operations. The farm-labor
division is a Federal operation. That cooperation, as I told you in
my opening sentence, was where we cooperate with States. In
California we do not contribute one cent to the maintenance of the
California public offices but we do supply them with printed forms.
The San Jose office is not our office. We do not conform to it, and
we have no control over it.
Mr. Frese. Do you have any office you do have control over?
Mr. Jones. Not in California.
The CuarrmMaN. No regular office in California at all?
Mr. Jones. Not yet. We hope to have two of the farm-labor
offices in California.
The Crarrman. Why haven’t you had some in California?
Mr. Jones. We haven't had the money to establish any. We
are going to establish two in California. We are hoping to get the
money from Congress to establish them.
The CuairMaN. As a result of what has recently come up within
the last 100 days? ?
Mr. Jones. Yes, sir.
The CuairmMaN. You made an appeal in the proper form in your
sstimate to the Secretary to present to the Budget, did you?
Mr. Jones. Yes.
The CuairMaN. For an increase?
Mr. Jones. Yes, sir.
The Crairman. Was it sent back to you?
Mr. Jones. I believe they always send it back with an explanation
of some kind.
The CraArrman. Was it trimmed when it was sent back?
Mr. Jones. No. They didn’t trim it this time. They gave us
what we asked for this time. But as you know, that is only available
July 1. We felt an exigency was on and we needed the money to
launch our service earlier and just as quickly as possible for extension
of farm labor work to California, and for more work to be done in
Arizona, some in New Mexico and in Utah.
Mr. Free. You have not helped us at all in California.
Mr. Jongs. Oh, yes we have, in our farm labor-division in cooperation
 with your State we have directed men there.
Mr. Free. Where have you directed men?
Mr. Jones. We have directed men into the Sacramento Valley.
Our director at Spokane has made a survev of that State.