Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-01-31 | Page 22 | Growers Seek Mexican Labor

I GROWERS SEEK r MEXICAN LABOR LABORi i Labor Shortage In west South South South- Southwest Southwest west Topic of Immigration Immigration tion Group WASHINGTON Jan By 50 30 ByThe The Associated ReQuests Press Press by middle western western and southwestern beet sugar and cotton growers for a a more lenient policy toward admission of Mexican la laborers borers continued to occupy the th house Immigration committee Fri Friday day E J 1 Walker of ot Phoenix triz Ariz and Charles Charit Boyer of Los Loa Angeles Angeld representing cotton growers said It had been Impossible to obtain enough pickers to harvest the crop thus this year We have not been Insisting on Mexican labor explained Walker alker but would have been glad Alad to have o obtained any sort ort of reliable help of any nationality But Mexicans apparently are aro the only ones will will- willing Inc ing to do the tho work and we hale hau not been boen able to get enough of them What few tew of the white whits I la- la la laborers borers borer were ere signed up usually re- re refused re refused fused to pick lck Ick cotton when they found out what the work was waSo E Cummins Nogales Ariz Aril gave testimony to the sumo same effect The shortage of labor tabor in Inthe the su sugar gar beet fields was as discussed by byE byE y yE E F P Heckman Denver to L L n B Tompkins Bay City Midi Mich and S SIt R n McLean l cLean Holland Mich u uI I