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4. Abolition of the coniract system.
5. The companies will have to pay $15 a week when the workingmen are sick
and medical attention should be given free,
6. Recognition of the Syndical Agricultural Labor League and its representative
 committees.
¥. Abolition of work for children or youngsters under 16 years of age.
8. No exception will be taken against strikers.
9. No exception should be taken against workingmen because of race or sex.
10. For the same work, equal pay.
11. Comfortable and sanitary quarters should be furnished by the companies
ar corporations.
12. Establishment of employment agencies under the direction of the Syndical
Agricultural Labor League and all other agencies to be prohibited.
To the strike: Hold a meeting immediately of all the workingmen— Mexicans,
Philippines, and Americans where you work. Ask us for one of our representatives.
 Start to protect your work. Do not permit strike breakers to hold your
work.
Elect a committee of 10 workingmen to represent you in the general committee
of strike.
” Send immediately a committee to us at this address: 929 I Street, Brawley,
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SYNDICAL AGRICULTURAL LABOR LEAGUE.
Mr. HusHinG. I will, with the committee’s consent, read a statement
 by Mr. Paul S. Taylor, who investigated Mexican labor in the
United States Imperial Valley, for the University of California.
[ think it is generally conceded that Mr. Taylor is an impartial
investigator, and therefore his statements should be taken as facts
that contradict Mr. Moore’s statement that Filipinos organized the
Mexicans. He states that these Mexicans were organized as a result
of a suggestion by the Mexican consul at Calexico, Calif., who has
since left office, and not by the Filipinos in order that the Filipinos
might get the jobs
The CrAIRMAN. Do you refer to Paul S. Taylor's pamphlet with
two maps—have you that in mind?
Mr. HusminGg. Yes; I have it with me.
The CHAIRMAN. I believe the committee will make a separate
Jocument of it.
Mr. Box. I believe Mr. Taylor is head of the department of
economics of the University of California.
Mr. Husuing. The University of California publishes these
reports. Mr. Taylor made an investigation of Mexican labor in the
Imperial Valley of the United States and other sections, and a book
covering each investigation was published. There are four of these
books or pamphlets. The one from which I am about to quote is
entitled “Mexican Labor in the United States, Imperial Valley
University of California Publications in Economics,” and was issued
December 17, 1928. The matter to which I refer is found at pages
46 and 47, and reads as follows:
* The specific form of exploitation which thus stirred the Mexicans
to organization were those that have been already noted as particularly engaging
the attention of the State Labor Commissioner. As offenders in most of these
respects, the role of the Japanese growers looms large in the eyes of the Mexicans.
The idea of a union was suggested to Gonzalez by the Mexican consul at Calexico
(who has since left office). As consul he was besieged with the appeals of his
nationals to help settle their labor claims, and as a result of his experience, came
to believe that organization would be a desirable means of remedying the situation.
 Not for several months, however, and not until after he had left office,
1id Gonzalez make any move to start a union.

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