Mr. President. the Senator has referred to the scarcity of labor on the farms. and there is no doubt that there is such a scarcity. I think we all recognize the fact that the laborers who came into this country from northern and western Europe made firstclass farm laborers. But if we are to admit those from southern Europeand from eastern Europe. can the Senator tell us what portion of them would likely go to the farms and can he tell us the character of farm labor we have been getting from those sections of Europe? I ask the question. not out of idle curiosity but because I have had some letters from farmers in Ohio. who have ridiculed the thought of placing southern or eastern European immigrants on the farms. and they do so because they regard them as lacking in the necessary qualifications for that kind of work.
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Southern and Eastern Europeans are not suited for farm labor.