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Mr. Free. I do not see anything in it about Congress not giving
you any more money-and you now have three offices in Texas and two
in Oregon, and none in our State with all the demand for labor that
we have there.
Mr. Jones. We have not heard anything about your demand for
labor till recently.
Mr. Free. We have had the same thing for four years.
Mr. Jones. We haven't had a request———
Mr. Green. Two dollars a day is considered a big wage in our State
for common labor, and there is always a request for work down there.
Mr. Jones. We have several requests to come to Jacksonville and
establish an office.
Mr. EsrerLy. A gentleman yesterday, from Imperial Valley, said
they are offering to pay $22 a day for labor and could not get any.
Mr. Free. That is picking cantaloupes in Imperial Valley. You
know that we pay the highest prices in California of any State in the
Union, do you not? :
or JonEs. I have been told that you have been paying fair wages
there.
Mr. Fre. Do you not think you ought to help us?
Mr. Jones. I have been telling you we are going to.
Mr. Free. When?
Mr. Jones. Before July 1, if we get the deficiency appropriation
through we are going to open three offices in California ss we did in
other unfortunate States.
Mr. Esteruy. What will become of these Filipinos—the men
who handle foreign labor, the Filinino as against the Mexican contract
 labor agent?
Mr. Jones. We hope to do such with that class of work that the
laborers in California will not be able to apply to private emplovment
agencies.
Mr. Esterny. Did the State of California ever appeal to your
department for help, or did they consider up till now they were handling
it themselves?
Mr. Jones. They considered they were handling it pretty well
themselves.
Mr. Esterry. And that is generally a white man’s privilege, to
handle a thing for himself till he gets to where it is bevond him and
then he calls to his friends?
Mr. Jones. Yes, sir.
Mr. Cook. I would like to know how many were placed in employment
 last year by the bureau?
Mr. Jones. The cooperative service was about 1,400,000. In our
farm-labor division I received my report this morning. It was over
600,000 that were handled by the farm-labor division. separate and
apart from that 1,400,000.
Mr. Coox. That is, including what the State labor bureaus have
done?
Mr. Jones. The cooperation is with the States—1.400.000. I will
be glad to send that to you.
Mr. Cook. I am not exactly convinced of the utility of the depart~
ment yet. What, for instance, does the department do to bring the
strawberry growers of the Ozarks together with the people who are
seeking employment?