Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-03-21

lahorers on the farm, he said are
mostly MeNicans with a few Ameri-
cans. More than half the American
farmers who have been ON this place
in the past dozen years, he said, have
bought their own farms. OF the Mex.
leans, two have bought farms. lie
said the company had notified all em-
pioNeS they would be discharged II
they became candidates for any po-
hucal office in the county and that
none were deputy sheriffs
White Labor Short.
Professor Charles II. Avord OF
Gregory superintendent of this farm,
testified he had known of but one
American farmer permitting his wife
to work in cotton fields Mexican
women and youths of both sexes
worked in the fields, but seldom
young Mexican children He said
Mexican laborers on the place re
.ceiVe so cents a day wages, against
81 per day last year Mexican boys
begin earning the fun wage at about
II. Most of the labor, he said, was
Mexican.
why don't you employ other la
bor'' asked Chairman Frank Z.
Walsh of the commission.
There is not enough in the cOun-
try replied Professor Alvord
mo you employ MeXicans because
you can get them cheaper"
mo, not necessarily. 1t depends on
the efficiency we get out of them"
Professor Alvord testified that the
TAFT oil & Gin Co. at Gregory is not
part of the corporation owning the
farm, but that it is a partnership Of
some Of tho farm stockholders.
Independent Ginners Hurt.
Dale Walker Of Gregory, a cotton
sinner, asked whether he had any
complaint to make about competition
from the Taft Oil x Gin Co., replied
that it was difficult for him to COM
pete in poor crop years because the
cotton from the corporation farm all
went to the Taft gin, while it was
hard for him TO get enough outside
cotton, He said the farm corporation
had the fresh water supply, that i'm
1913 the price he had to pay for this
water made II too expensive for his
boiler use and that he was using salt
water
Judge NJ. NJ. Brooks Of Dallas, a
north Texas landowner, said that for
several years he has had a standing
offer to become security for any of
his tenants who will save $1,000 and
buy n farm, backing the tenant un-
til the firm is paid for.
II never got one man TO accept
the offer" he said. Many have made
the $1,000. but they would blow it
in. The great lack by tenants in this
country is lack Of economic sense.
have seen them plowing wearing pat
ent leather shoes and red socks"
Impossible Conditions.
w. d. Lewis, president of the Texas
division, Farmers Educationan and
cooperative Union, said that farm
land values and rents have been ris.
ing. while farmers profits have re-
manned stationary or decreased. an
impossible economic condition. Re-
fefring TO testimony throughout the
five days that farmers pay at least
10 per cent for money he declared
no business can run successfully un-
der such an expense. Replying to a
question, he denied that funds for
support of the union have been CON
tributed by the Texas Commercial
Secretaries association.
Commissioner Walsh announce
that many valuable suggestions have
been received by mail during the
hearing, that they will be considered
with the other record, and that the
commission will be glad To have fur
ther suggestions mailed to the field
headquarters. 643 TRANSPORTATION
building, Chicago