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The CuarrmaN. We shall be glad to have it. The statement made
by Mr. Bradley and covering the economic situation generally was
a wide survey; it is interesting and well worth reading.
The letter to Mr. Gibson reads as follows [reading]: ;

Boston, Mass., January 24, 1930.

Hon. Ernest W. Gison,
Committee on Immigration, House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Gieson: I am inclosing an extract from a letter of the secretary of
the trust. I wish you would notice particularly the last line: ‘People are
grasping at any straw for aid this winter because work is so scarce.” ,
This is only one case out of many hundred thousand of humble people who are
being affected by our immigration laws. While these people are grasping at
straws in order to keep their heads above water, we have, since 1924, been taking
into New England, to take their jobs, from 80,000 to 100,000 new workers who
are absolutely not needed. At the same time, our mills have been going south
and qur orders are falling off because of competition from southern white labor,
which in its turn is being held down by competition, and thrown off the soil into
the mills and shops by the competition of Mexican labor.
I trust that the immigration committee won't let side issues divert them from
the most important thing that concerns American business and American living
conditions; that is, the controlling of immigration from the Western Hemisphere.
Canadian immigration is good, but the Canadian immigrant takes jobs just as
much as any other, and its quantity is determined not by American laws or by
American policy but by Canadian laws and by Canadian policy. Canadian interests
 want sufficient pressure for employment in Canada to make it easy to get
lahor into their undeveloped territory in the north, and for every Canadian who
is erowed by European immigration into those cold, and somewhat primitive,
regions to take jobs, two or three Canadians are crowded over into the United
States to'take American jobs.
It is like two tanks connected by pipe. So long as they are connected, the
level is the same whether you pour water into one or the other.
American labor conditions should not be controlled by Canadian laws and
Canadian policy, as is now the case.
I am inclosing copies of this letter, which I hope you will transmit to my
good friends, Congressmen Johnson and Box, with my best regards and wishes
for strength to your elbows.
Yours very trulv.

R. M. BRADLEY.

STATEMENT OF FREDERIC BRENCKMAN, OF THE NATIONAL
GRANGE, WASHINGTON, D. C.

The CuairMAN. We shall now hear Mr. Brenckman, of the National
Grange. Mr. Brenckman, of what does your organization consist?
Mr. BrenckmaN. It is a general farm organization, consisting of
men and women, and it is organized on a State basis, in 31 States,
and it has membership in other States, also. It has a total membership
 of 800,000, extending from the State of Maine to the State of
California.
The CuairmManN. Where is your office?
pF BrenckMmaN. No. 630 Louisiana Avenue NW., Washington,
The CuarrMaN. You have heard a good part of the testimony
presented here, and you may proceed.
Mr. BrENckMAN. I will say in general terms that the Grange is
heartily in favor of our present immigration law and that we feel that
the safety of society and of our institutions requires that there should
be reasonable restriction of immigration. When it comes to the