WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION 289

Mr. Gray. The purport of this resolution simply means that in
the American Farm Bureau Federation we have no permanent policy
worked out in our mind as to what the ultimate solution of the seasonal
labor problem might be. We do not know whether the solution
which the director of the labor bureau has been talking about, in
which he seems to think that by shifting the population around,
shifting the unemployment, that he can attend to all the seasonal
emergencies that exist, might be the ultimate solution or not. We
do not know whether the whole thing will have to be left to the wisdom
of the Secretary of Labor to import many, or none, of these
nationals for seasonal emergencies, or whether some other solution
shall be found. But we ask that a study be made of the thing, a
congressional investigation, more conclusive, no doubt, than a committee
 can conduct in a hearing, before anv final determination is
made on the question. )
I am frank to say that I do not know what the final solution may
be, and my organization does not attempt to outline what the final
solution must be; but we do know in our organization, wherein we
have 10 State federations at least, that are actively interested in the
question of seasonal agricultural labor, that there are some places
in which if seasonal labor can not be secured it will have a very bad
effect on people who are raising certain crops in certain parts of the
United States. We are just as desirous of this thing being solved
as any other group in the United States. We are very anxious that
a solution be found for it. We hardly believe that the solution contained
 either in the Box bill or the Johnson bill, now pending, should
be the final solution. But if it should be determined by a thorough
study on the ground, from every source imaginable, by a congressional
committee, what the final solution should be, if that final solution
should be along the line of the Box bill now pending or the Johnson
bill, if it is to be along the line testified to by the director of the
Labor Bureau here, if 1t should be along the line of leaving it to be
absolutely handled in the wisdom of the Secretary of Labor, as he
thought necessary, to bring in these foreign nationals under emergencies;
 whatever that solution may be determined, in accordance
with our resolution which' I read, I am ready to promise that we will
be ready to support it whether it hurts the fellows who now need
seasonal labor or whether it helps them. In other words, what we
are asking for, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, is for
the determination of this question, but for a determination based
on information which will be secured by this force designated in this
resolution. So we are not taking a position irrevocably against a
final solution of the seasonal labor proposition; we are taking a position
 in favor of its solution, but we do not know what the solution is.
Mr. EsteErLY. Is that for the appointment of another commission,
Mr. Gray?
Mr. Gray. Not of a commission, but I would describe it in another
term. It is for the appointment of a congressional joint committee,
just as you have frequently done in times past, of Congressmen and
Senators, to evolve the proper and final solution of this matter. I
would not call it a commission; I would call it a joint committee.
The Cuairman. Here is a very busy session of Congress getting
ander way, with 20 or more important committees that are sitting
just now. Big problems are-coming, and the members, such as you
find on this committee. dislike to be awav anv period of time, and it