274 WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

The CuairMaN. As a matter of fact, employment is more or less
temporary in many of the farming communities, is it not?
Mr. Jones. Oh, yes. Take in many sections of the Ozark region
of Arkansas and Missouri—there are 30,000 acres of strawberries in
Arkansas to be harvested. I think just about the same in other
States.
Mr. Free. Where do they get the help to do that?
Mr. Joxgs. They haven't much local help; but after the strawberry
 picking is over they have finished there.
Mr. Free. How long does it last?
Mr. Jones. About six weeks.
Mr. Free. Where do you get that help?
Mr. Jones. From all parts of Arkansas and Missouri.
Mr. Free. What is it? Colored or white?
Mr. Jones. All kinds. They come in, a little family with a
flivver. They may have a tent and some cooking utensils and they
make pretty good wages, for they get from 3 to 4 cents a quart for
picking the strawberries.
Sk. Frere. Now, do they drift back to some fine home, or go elsewhere?

Mr. Jones. No, they go on a continuation of the seasonal work
because it is pretty nearly continuous now—these operations are.
Mr. Free. Are they mainly whites, negroes, Mexicans or others?
Mr. Jones. Great many whites. There are negroes and there are
Mexicans.
Mr. Green. I would like to say we have a great many strawberries
in Florida, but our strawberries are harvested by local help. We
do not have to import much outside help.
Mr. Jones. You do have a situation there.
Mr. GreeN. The negroes help us with the strawberries and at other
times they drift into the grape fruit and orange sections. This
labor that comes in from Mexico and other countries, not American
labor, to work on the farms, particularly when they have caught up
with farm labor, don’t they drift back into the large cities then?
Mr. Jones. San Antonio is quite a large city. It is a large city
for Mexicans. They do drift there.
Mr. Green. Then the plea to admit foreigners for farm labor does
not satisfy conditions? After they stay on the farm a while as
imported labor, they drift to the cities and crowd out our own labor;
do they not?
Mr. Jones. This tells the story right here. If it were not for the
large number of Mexicans they would not be able to get labor at 20
cents an hour the present day.
Mr. GiBsoN. You have been telling of the labor situation throughout
 the country. Do you know the situation in New England?
Mr. Jonrs. Yes, sir.
Mr. Gisson. What is that situation there?
Mr. JonEs. Plenty of unemployment there.
Mr. Gisson. Do you know of any section where there is not
unemployment at the present time?
Mr. Jones. No; I wrote the other day to our employment office
in Vermont. He had some three or four brick layers, and he asked
if we could direct them to some employment. My answer was that
there was a large supply of brick layers in all large centers, and I