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-<leveloping the orchard business and is wanting labor at the 

 same time. In Wenatchee itself, there is almost no chance 

 whatever for her to relieve her labor scarcity by drawing 

 from outside settlements. Our situation here is almost the 

 reverse. You can't go anywhere but you are fairly close to 

 leasonalily large towns while we cannot always (in these 

 days when we are making shells and bidlets) get the help 

 we want, they get almost none and the only thing they de- 

 pend on is their local help and the hobo element w^hich drifts 

 in there. 



You will find they employ in their orchard work gen- 

 erally one of three different types of lal)()r. usually keeping 

 fairly close to one or the other. First, you will find in 

 some sections that the Japs are the common laborers and 

 perhaps you go into a packing house where there is nothing 

 but Japs except the foreman. I should say that was the 

 i\iost common type of labor. In other sections the Chinese 

 is the common laborer and where I found the Cliinese T 

 found the owners usually are very well pleased with them. 



The Chinese were usually preferred to any other type 

 t»f labor as I got the consensus of oj'inion out there. The 

 Chinese are not so combative as the Japanese, not so likely 

 to get into trouble, easier to handle; and we all know the 

 reputation of the Chinese to imitate, if you show them how 

 to do a thing once they know how to do it always. 



T remember when I was out there in 1910 judging at the 

 Canadian Apple Show, the car that got the prize was a car 

 of Jonathans from Kelowna which was packed by two 

 C^liinamen. It seemed that every apple in the carload was 

 exactly like every other one, and every box was packed in 

 the same way. That is not surprising to any one who knows 

 the Chinese characteristics. You ]u-obably remember the 

 story of the Woman who got a new Chinese cook, and she 

 went out to shoAV him how to make coffee the first morning 

 he was there. She wanted the coffee settled with an egg so 

 she broke one and as the first one wasn't good she threw it 

 away. Then she broke another one and used it to settle the 



