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wants an investigation made. I think it would not be.s bad idea to
have a few people from that section of the country who are engaged
in agriculture on that commission.
Mr. Box. It depends on whether they would look on the matter
as something of local interest or whether they would remember the
United States as extending from Canada to Mexico and from the
Atlantic to the Pacific.
Mr. BrenckMaN. We are for whatever is good for the United
States and those people are part of the United States. -
Mr. Dickstein. In other words, you are opposed to this bill; as I
ndomnd you, which would put Mexico and Canada on a quota
asis?
Mr. BrenckMan, In 1927 the National Grange passed a resolution,
 opposing the placing of nationals of the Western Hemisphere on
a quota basis. My instructions from the executive committee of
the National Grange are that we would be in favor of an mvestigation
 and would be willing to abide by whatever it found.
Mr. Dickstein. Does your organization obtain labor from various
countries we are now attempting to place upon a quota basis?
Mr. BrenckmaN. Not our organization as such, simply individual
members of it.
Mr. Gisson. Doubtless the witness recognizes the fact that the
proposal of a commission is the old, old way of shunting legislation
onto a side track.
Mr. BreNckMaN. We are not in favor of anything of that kind.
We are in good faith in making the proposal and other people are in
favor of the same thing.