308 WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

Now, their delegates would be present at the annual meeting, and
they were present at the time this resolution here was enacted.
Any position they wanted to bring forward with reference to
Mexican immigration could be presented on the floor or before the
resolutions committee. :
Mr. Green. Will the gentleman yield to me? .
Mr. Ruraerrorp. Yes.
Mr. Green. I believe you said the main purpose of your organization
 is to look after the industrial and economic interests of our
country. That is a laudable purpose.
I would like to ask the witness this: Do you believe that when you
advocate immigration from the Southwest, from Mexico, or large
numbers of laborers, coming in when there is a surplus here now, many
of our people without employment, broke, on charity, you are upholding
 the economic standards and helping industry by what your
committee is immediately advocating?
Mr. Frrzratrick. Mr. Congressman, as we see this, suddenly cutting
 off the labor supply which has been used and is being now used
in carrying on a large economic industry, is not a cure of the situation
and is not going to help the men in Detroit or any place. It will
simply create an undesirable situation in the Southwest and then
there is going to be more unemployment and more difficulties, you see.
Mr. Green. I grant you there will be, when these people Inigrate
on to those centers, and they will do that in due course of time.
Mr. FrrzeaTrick. Well, if you apply the quota suddenly to them
there will be a disturbance all throughout the Southwest which will
not help anybody else, but will hurt the rest as well as that section.
Now, it may be that there may be ways and means of restricting
Mexican immigration more than it is restricted at the present time,
and at the same time take care of the labor needs of the Southwest.
but to suddenly shut off that source of supply is not going to by any
means cure the situation.
Mr. Green. 1 believe though it would be more like giving a little
dose of morphine for a headache caused by an ailment of the body,
rather than going into the main cause. Temporarily, it would
relieve the Southwest situation to let these people come on in, but
eventually the general evil over the country would be augmented.
Mr. FrrzeaTrick. Well, that is, of course, in line with your suggestion
 and it is possible that would be true.
Mr. EsterLY. A witness appeared here last week and said that
they had a certain appropriation from the United States Chamber of
Commerce to forward the work of the immigration committee, and
said they also received money from other sourcces. I think it would
be well for the committee to know the actual amount of the appropriation
 from the chamber, plus the amount of money from other
sources, and what those other sources are, on this immigration
question.
Mr. Frrzeatrick. I have forgotten what Mr. Bent said about that,
but the situation is this, as far as my department is concerned: It has
a budget of around $30,000 a year for all its activities, provided out of
the general funds of the chamber. Other departments of the chamber
likewise have budgets of varying amounts depending upon the
activities out of the general funds of the chamber, and there are no
supplemental funds. I mean by my department, the civic development
 department from which furnishes the National Chamber's
immigration committee with its staff works