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Mr. Jones. I have explained it to you in all thoroughness. If you
will zo down to the strawberry growers of the Ozarks they will explain
to you what we have done. We have had plenty of applications on
file and have supplied them with the labor.
Mr. Cook. How?
Mr. Jones. We have recruited the labor.
Mr. Cook. How?
Mr. Jones. With our special agents, here, there, and in every town,
with posters distributed all over the United States. We distribute
reliable information. It is not propaganda. It is information given
by the Government and they rely on it, and it is reliable information.
Mr. Cook. To whom do you give that information?
Mr. Jones. If you were looking for a job as a strawberry picker,
you would see a poster up there reading:
We need 1,000 strawberry pickers for employment at one certain place. Apply
bo So-and-so in a certain place.

The chambers of commerce in several places supply us space
without expense. :
Ms Ramey. Have you the same facilities for supplying skilled
abor?
Mr. Jones. We do not conduct a local Federal employment office.
The Federal employment service, regardless of the States, is under
civil service.
Mr. Free. Is this under your direction?
Mr. Jones. The District of Columbia, the Commissioners of the
District and the United States Department of Labor cooperate in
maintaining that office.
The Cramrman. The District is treated as if it was a State for that
purpose?
Mr. Jongs. That is what we do. It is one of our cooperative
offices.
The CuairMaN. You have no means of transporting any man to a
job in any of these agricultural communities?
Mr. Jonms. We have not.
The Cuamman. I know the system very well. N ow, in the bullebin
 issued in the State of Washington; if there is a surplus of activity
In a certain community, you note that in the book?
Mr. Jones. We do.
The CuarrmMan. And that tends to keep workingmen away from
that place?
Mr. Jones. Yes, sir. A few years ago in the State of Kansas the
mayor of a town and two or three of the leading men sent word to
our office at Hutchinson, “We need 1,000 men.” N ow, we have a
survey of that entire country, and we know pretty near how many
men they need providing the crop is normal. We said, “We will not
send you 1,000 men, because you do not need them; we will send you
100 men, and we will hold you responsible to employ every one of
them.” Those men were not directed by bulletin; they were just
directed out of the office; they were selected men. “But we will
hold you responsible to employ every one of the men that we direct
to you.” Another wire came back, “Hold the matter in abeyance;
we will not be responsible for men that you send to us.” “Very well,”
we said, “We will not send you any men.” We sent them, then,