WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1930

House oF REPRESENTATIVES,
COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION,
Washington, D. C.
The committee met in the committee room, No. 483, House Office
Building, at 10 o’clock a. m., Hon. Albert Johnson (chairman),
presiding.
The CratrRMAN. The committee will be in order. The clerk will
note the names of members as they come in.
Representative Snow, of Maine, 1s present, and we will hear him.
Mr. Snow. I wish to say that Mr. James Q. Gulnac, of Bangor,
Me., is present this morning and desires to be heard in connection
with the Johnson and Box bills. Bangor is located in the fourth
congressional district of the State of Maine, which district adjoins
Canada. In my opinion, Mr. Gulnac is unusually well versed on the
subject of labor and immigration conditions along the Maine-Canadian
ine and it is with pleasure that I present him to vour committee at
this time.
The CuairMaN. Do you, Mr. Snow, desire to sav anvthing in connection
 with this matter?
Mr. Snow. Not at this time.
The CuarrMaN. The record will show that Representatives Nelson.
White, and Beedy, of Maine, appeared.
Mr. NeLsoN. This matter, so far as it affects the continued success
of the lumber industry in Maine, is a very serious one with us.
The CuairMaN. Do you use a great deal of Canadian labor in the
lumber industry in your State?
Mr. NeLsoN. Mr. Gulnac can give you the figures. Of the 20,000
men employed in the Maine woods, probably 10,000 of them are
Canadians, and we only ask that they be permitted to come here when
t is impossible to get skilled laborers for the woods from among our
own people. It is apparent that it will be impossible to continue the
pulp industry in Maine without this Canadian labor. I do not know
what these great pulp mills would do without it. I think you would
find the laboring men of Maine behind any such move, because
through this Canadian labor we get the raw material that keeps the
men in our pulp mills employed.
Mr, Warre. This is equally important to the potato growers of
Aroostook County, because there is a seasonal movement of farm
hands to harvest that crop. .
The CuairMAN. In regard to the woodsmen, would you have them
some in for permanent residence?