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men, and it was stated that there were 25,000 people there looking
for work.
Mr. Free. Do you know that they have withdrawn that report
and they have repudiated it and sent people up from the Imperial
Valley to supply that situation, and they went in there with trucks?
They could not use them. That is the trouble with you, Doctor;
that is the trouble with your whole bureau. Why is it, I have been
frying to find out——-o
The Crarman. We can get along without this heated method of
ronducting the hearing.
Mr. Freg. I think he is a propagandist myself.
Mr. Jones. I am not a propagandist.
Mr. Free. You are director of this bureau. You say your greatest
unemployment is in the State of New York. Why haven't you a
bureau up there?
A Jones. Under the law we do not set up any local employment
offices. ,
Mr. Free. What do you do? I have been looking over this statement
 of affairs in Nebraska and Oklahoma.
Mr. Jones. Will you read information I will send to you? I will
send you the set-up of our office and our organization.
Mr. Free. I would like to get a little bit of it now.
Mr. Jones. I ask you to be fair with us.
Mr. Free. I will be fair. How did you get this set-up which,
outside of the State of Texas, as I see it, does not cover the big centers
where employment 1s needed. or we have surpluses. How does this
set up?
Mr. Jones. Let us take the State of Kansas. Do not confuse this
farm-labor division with the cooperation with the several States in
maintaining local public employment offices. The farm operation is
a Federal operation, purely. Let us go on from Texas. In the State
of Kansas they have about 11,000,000 acres of wheat to be harvested.
We supply the needed labor there.
Mr. I'ree. Where do you get it from?
Mr. Jonms. We get it from several centers. We send out bulletins.
We get it from colleges and young men who are finishing colleges for
the year. We furnish every college in that section with a bulletin
advising them when the harvest will begin, the wage rate, and where
it applies.
Mr. Free. Will you tell me, for heaven's sake, why you send that
50 a college?
Mr. Jones. Yes, sir; I will. We get many recruits from colleges,
young men who are earning money so that thev can go back the next
year to college.
Mr. Ruraerrorp. I want to state for this committee we are some
distance from California, but at the same time we are glad that these
young men from colleges, and otherwise, go out there and get the
money and the trip, and come back.
Mr. Free. Where else do you send your information?
Mr. Jones. It is in every post office; by authority of the Post
master General our bulletins are posted.
Mr. Free. What is the nature of those bulletins? What do they
Say?
Mr. Jones. I will furnish you a copy of them.