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The Cramrman. I think the people of Washington and Oregon have
found by sad experience that cheaply paid labor makes a cheap
country.
Mr. Guinac. I do not mean that. That is not true with the
woodsmen in Maine. It has not been a question of wages there; it
has been a question of getting experienced people to do that work.
We want those who will remain in the woods two or three months
and do our work satisfactorily rather than those who remain there
only two or three days. That is the thing that has more to do with
the cost of operation there than the question of wages. The replacement
 of crews is very expensive. The wage is not the determining
factor in the State of Maine. The newspaper-print situation in the
State of Maine is going to depend upon being able to get pulpwood
somewhere near the relative cost it is in Canada. Last month I
was in Canada and a mill was paying $6.50 a cord for the wood
delivered at the mill, while a Maine mill in the same general locality
was paying $16 a cord. That Canadian paper is coming here duty
free, and that is a competition that we have to meet in the State of
Maine.
Mr. Box. Why is the paper coming in duty free?
Mr. GuLnac. Simply because there is no duty on it.
Mr. Box. Ordinarily, the country protects its citizens against
Canadian labor. I believe you say that we must bring in that labor
to meet the competition from the same class elsewhere?
Mr. GurLnac. To bring in that class of labor, so that we may
operate in the woods in as efficient a manner as possible.
I want to make a suggestion and offer an amendment to any quota
immigration bill you might have that would involve Canada. So
far as I am personally concerned, I am not opposed to any quota
bill that puts the countries in the Western Hemisphere on a quota.
My only request is that in doing so you make the quota for Canada
sufficiently large, so that it will not bring disaster to us in the State
of Maine, where we need these Canadians. So far as the quota bill to
help carry out the present law is concerned, I am for it.
Mr. Box. Do you think that Canada should be given a liberal
quota in view of the fact that her citizens are generally good and
desirable people? ]
Mr. Guinac. Yes, sir.
Mr. Box. I think vou will find that many of us agree with you as
to that.
Mr. Gurnac. In order to handle the temporary situation with us,
I would like to suggest this amendment to anv auote bill that may
be considered Donal

The Secretary of Labor, upon the petition of a person, company, or corporation,
may authorize the importation of laborers for a specified purpose and for a
definite period, regardless of quota, illiteracy, or contract-labor restrictions, when
it shall satisfactorily appear to the Secretary, after full investigation, that the
facts stated in such petition are true and that laborers of like kind unemployed
can not be found in the United States and that a strike or lockout does not exiss
or impend in the particular industry seeking to import such laborers. The
petition shall be in such form and supported by such evidence and the importation
 shall be made under such rules as may be regulation be prescribed. No
immigration visa shall be required for laborers imported under this provision.
Mr. Gurnac. That would make it possible for them to still bring
in potato pickers from Canada, a great manv of whom are Canadians