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Mr. Guryac. All of that if you include the average expense they
are under in going to the American consul and in getting their photographs
 for the immigration visa.
Mr. DicksTrIN. It costs about $25 to get into the United States?
Mr. GuLnac. Yes.
Mr. Dickstein. These laborers to whom you pay as much as
88 a day pay that expense from their own pockets?
Mr. Gurnac. That is why they are not coming it. I would like to
have my amendment take care of that very phase of it.
Mr. Dickstein. You have stated that the Canadian Pacific
Rrailroad and other agencies are going to Europe and asking immigrants
 to come to Canada. Is it not true that it is just as difficult
0 get into Canada as it is to get into the United States?
Mr. Guinac. In some ways it is. If one is going to Canada to
seek employment, and the Canadians feel that they have enough
people there to do the work, they will not let him in.” For instance,
we wanted to send one of our cooks to Canada. It cost us $55, and
when he got there they would not let him enter. That happened
only last December.
Mr. DickstrIN. But they do let farmers in without question?
Mr. GuLNac. Yes, sir. ;
Mr. DickstmIN. There is no limit to the number of farmers who
may enter Canada.
Mr. GuLyac. I do not think there is any limit during the harvest
season in the West. In fact, they bring those people from Europe in
shiploads.
Mr. Dicksreix. You are, as I understand, opposed to the application
 of the quota law to Canada?
Mr. GurNac. Some of our Congressmen are against it. I am not
against it if that quota is sufficiently large so that it will not materially
 restrict the number that has been coming here to do our work,
for which we can not get Americans. If in order to pass a quota
bill that would regulate immigration from other countries you have
to include Canada, I, for myself, am not opposed to it, if you only
consider our difficulty in Maine and in some way meet that situation
for us. I am with this committee and I am with Congress in their
past programs and future programs for restriction of immigration,
which is, of course, aimed at selective immigration, :
Mr. Dickstein. How many should be allowed to. enter the United
States?
Mr. Gurnac. I have no figures. I know that from 1920 to 1927
it had averaged 102,000 a year coming from Canada to the United
States. That was gross. However, do not get confused about that,
The net would be much less than that.
Mr. Dickstein. How many remained here, if you know?
Mr. Guinac. Those were all coming for permanent residence, so
far as the records showed.
Mr. Dickstein. How many laborers came in from, say, Montreal,
between 1920 and 1927, if you know?
Mr. Gurnac. I do not know.
Mr. Dicksteiy. What would your amendment do?
Mr. Gurnac. That is simply my suggestion of a way out of this
difficulty. I realized when preparing the amendment that probably
when I got to the place where the word “illiteracy” was mentioned