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Show 0UIL00K FOR i LABOR BAD IN. EZ1 CALIFORNIA Conditions Will Be Worse During Dur-ing This Winter Than Last Commission Is Told San Francisco, Aug. 27. Inquiry Into Stockton labor disturbances whs completed by tho federal Industrial relations commission touay and thou tho subject of seasonal labor wan entered en-tered upou. Dr. Carleton H. Parker, executive secretary of the state commission of immigration and housing testified that' seasonal employment threw h vast army of men out of work in the winter time. Conditions were bad In the state last year, be sjld and recently inquiry convincpd Mui they would be worse during the com lng winter. He estimated tnat from 35,000 to 40,000 seasonal laborers "lie up" here every winter and that l.os Angeles and -Sacramento shelter about 10,000 and 4,000, respwtlvclj , during the same period. Many "f these men, he declared, were unable to find any kind of employment iiiit-side iiiit-side of seasonal labor. "The gravest danger the state faces," he said, "Is the Irregular chai-acter chai-acter of employment In the agricultural agricul-tural districts. We must tin 1 ttnik for seasonal labor." Out of 641 seasonal labic ranis of various kinds investigate! In the state by his organization, tho witness said, 188 were reported bhd. Soma contractors camps be declined, wfero filthy evil and dangerous 'jeyoml description. de-scription. Now sanitary arranumo'its suggested by the Investigators have been adopted In ail the camps except two, he added. Bathing s not practiced iinlveunl ly by hop fields employes, aecoirilnK, ,toiK.' Clemens Hortt, a largo etnplnj. 1erio0A",thls"5filis feiBlaft. M 'fcorn' pany has provided bat'a!n iacllltlfls for Its employees for many yeurs, ho testified. Ten years ngo hobody used our bathhouses," ho testified. "Now more of tne employes are bathing smd In another year, perhaps they will j,ct used to baths." , Tho preseut tariff law ecntributis lo Industrial unrest. Mr. linrst believes, be-lieves, despite tho fact "io suld that tho tariff on hops makes it lioselblo for his lino of business to exist. Ha explained that he thought H low tfi-iff tfi-iff increased Importations, thyruby 'Increasing 'In-creasing employment for producers In this country, George, H.VHecks of Tiwls.CnirJ fornla and James bill's" o.f, Willows, California, 'fruit grM6rs, tprpsRjd theoplnlon that tho'state'should pro-vldo pro-vldo work for seasonal lbo during dull periods. GeorgoSpao.1, on organized, or-ganized, for tho Industrial rWorlrera pf the World, snld tho problei,: of niirm-ployment niirm-ployment would ho solved nhtuover labor organized thoroughly, and took over the unpaid wages now reo.'Osoa-ted reo.'Osoa-ted by tho holdings of capital i |