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Mr. Free. I want the information now.
Mr. Jones. It states where to apply for employment, where these
temporary offices will be set up, the date of the beginning of the
harvest, and so forth.
Mr. Free. Does it state where there is a need for workers and the
kind of work?
"Mr. Jones. Oh, yes. It is a big harvest.
The CeatrMaN. Or any other work?
Mr. Jones. Oh, yes; to start our strawberry work we get out &amp;
separate kind of bulletin, sent out in Louisiana and the Ozark regions
of Arkansas.
Mr. Free. Where do you circulate that?
Mr. Jones. Throughout that country.
Mr. Free. In Louisiana? Do you circulate it in these farming
States?
Mr. JonEs. Oh, no—not that far. It is too great a distance, but
mn Louisiana and Georgia and Mississippi.
Mr. Free. What does it take to cooperate? One man told me a
few days ago that he had to cut down his acreage 1,000 acres, because
he could not get the help in Imperial Valley. What must he do to
get you to cooperate with us to send some labor in there?
Mr. JoNEs. As soon as the money is appropriated we hope to open
two or three offices to give intelligent information to the men, to go
in there. Let me say about this letter from Los Angeles, that was
sent to me. A copy of it came to me. I don’t know whether the
facts are true or not. I am just relating the information, but there
was no intelligent direction. We do direct men intelligently with
friendly information.
Mr. Free. Now, you are getting it. That group in Los Angeles
that had the situation created the situation themselves.
Mr. Jongs. I don’t know about that. .
Mr. Free. They had an overlapping and interlapping organization,
so that people were being paid four or five salaries without a proper
coordination, and they didn’t want cooperation because they were
making a good living without it. But here we have 30,000 people a
month coming into southern California. They come out there with
a flivver and they want a good white-collar job?
Mr. Jones. I tell you, Mr. Congressman, I expect to go to California
 some day myself.
Mr. Free. That is good judgment, Mr. Jones. Now, you say at
this time there is considerable unemployment in New York and Detroit
and places of that kind?
Mr. Jones. Yes, sir.
Mr. Free. Do you observe in times of this unemployment in these
oreat cities there 1s any tendency of drifting of those peonle out into
the farming sections away from the cities?
Mr. Jonus. We haven’t any information there is any drifting from
the cities to the farms. It is from the farms to the cities.
Mr. Free. And even though the times are hard in the cities they
manage to stick it out somehow, hoping to get something there?
The Cuatrman. They could not drift out very much now on
account of the snow. . IE
Mr. JonEs. 1 believe that is the custom. They stay in the cities
with hope of getting employment there.