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Um, yeah, come to order. Was that about? I call on Sister Dorothy Hager to lead us in the, until we get a few more people here. I don't think we need to be forceful as to you should stay in to review very

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briefly. The meetings that were held last two Fridays in the same theater because there may be some of you here tonight. We're not aware of that. Two weeks ago, we held a meeting entitled, where do we go from here? And we discussed the problem of the

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fact that the funds for the A woc have been cut off by the national A and after a good deal of discussion, it was decided that we ought to try that dear on a local basis until perhaps outside help was restored either from the National A

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FL Cio or from some other source. And it was decided that a temporary committee, all the representatives would be elected at the meeting, the last prize at that time. It a night million was elected and we're all man visit since that this, you know, who needs

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a lot of business and our main purpose for coming together tonight. Is to report back to you the membership as to what we've done and the proposals that we like to make these. That is how we see here. One of the first things that this committee

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did was to elect temporary officers foolish enough to let me in German. But they made up for this by uh good vice chair. Go on. I think there is to watch forwards shortly and throwing over the fact that they think we are dead offering their close

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toward up here, for example, is a headline in the Modesto be on August 6th BJ explains failure. Says smear tactics, doomed labor drive. Ralph de Bungy is the manager of the California Canning says the A woc leaders conducted a skillful, tough campaign to discredit the farmers

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and destroy their. And this he says is the reason why the A woc has gone out of business as people. Here's an article from the American Fruit Grower, August 1961 by William JW. Agricultural work is organized and the committee has been dissolved in California. Here is

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the story of Bob Growers. The and he explains it in the spirit of the aggravations, frustrations, harassment, court battles, et cetera that the unified growers were able to throw up against. And the fact that we grow from us on the point of call for us. The

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thing is that we show an awful lot of life for, of course, if I do uh Mohan, the fun is a good thing. I've been here the last two weeks and they could be here tonight to see whether so that we need to do. We're pushing

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our Iran on a number of fronts. Yeah. Is right here about a block and a half away where the shape up has its heart. Many hundreds of people get their jobs in agriculture every morning. We still maintain representatives. I'd like to call upon Brother Georges who

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is uh of this temporary executive committee which we met with last week to give us a brief report on things which he's observed in done Shama the last few mornings, what we're doing there, what uh we might have you do in the future to help us

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help you. I didn't think too much down here. The features are getting full last year now and almost everyone is 17. We asked have some with a couple ones which I understand. Now our heads are being sent. No, I wasn't here this morning on, I was

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on the f that they were of all the check on these things yourself. And any time if you find someone on the street trying to hire people for the last year, get his people off of the bus, argue with him, do anything. Making that, that sense.

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That's aggravate you just more or less that you don't have the money to going on a strike to feed the people. So we just try to get, and these people cannot, contractors going out of here without making any money, people working hard. And if we keep

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the people away from them, they're gonna have to pay out for. And that's about the only way we've got to get that at this point, we have to maintain some kind of organization and hope that somebody will come and have something for when they do come.

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What happened, keep our organization together the best we can. And it's just everybody created news and new people join, try to good organization here together. So I think I understand for someone to come and pick us up. We have. Yeah. What's that? And this together now

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I took the job of pushing the crew out there for Otis, darn lousy job worming feature of worms. And I had to look at the next one, the smaller, I don't know. Oh, there's no environment that what I hope so. I won't be around too much

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trying to get out of your great as I can. And any other Canadian have to go to somebody to mar, call on me. What a is our secretary and treasurer to give a brief congratulation, brother. Yes.

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But is that ok? Yeah. And so, yeah. Uh, that going to be no rest for you sister waters because I'm not going to call on the front here. A report on the activities on

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the LA his. Yeah, with that, uh, start, remember, right? Uh All of it that show uh fair problem by the work that they have there. Uh I say that too much. Uh This is not. No. And myself

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at the present for men and uh all ministers, Methodist church. Thank and Tracy, you know, the process and another topic that, well, we decided that we would go as into this meeting and uh they had a very, very good discussion and as to how they can

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go out on the field, try to help the agriculture work. Well, um we, what I was doing and uh I, I sat and told them agricultural worker has to live uh after that meeting me before it was over the uh the meeting uh without us being

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there, you know, the rest of the, since then we haven't gotten in touch with him however better to uh Sanford Reverend here in Stockton. And I have also written that they very tough with the to a venture. Ok. I know. You know. Yeah. You know, the

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available for them to show. Yeah, Latin America's Club tomorrow between it's gonna have um Yeah, with you, see that I was a collection in order to have sounds, see I can make it more as a WC. So uh that's amazing.

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And uh we, and we would like to invite all the women and teenagers to have a great, if they would like to join our group that uh they are do so like to think we are just doing so Yeah, you have a meaning contra. Yeah, that's

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true. I think everything. Yes. How is that from the there is not, but ok, the tropical I consider either therefore many. Almost a so but, uh, uh, a limit. Uh, ok. And love me. Absolutely. I, but, uh, ok. Ok. Trying

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to say this, that I can give the address that. Yes. Amazing. The but, uh, that's, oh, better brothers and sisters in county as determined, right? As we are determined up here in San Joaquin County. And we have several representatives with us this evening

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from that, like including a WCF Bob Pepper is sitting back there with his hand in the head and I wonder, Bob if you'd like to say a few words to the group here tonight. Now, thank you. Uh I don't have a great not to say except

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that we are going to go ahead hard as we can. That's right. And we're going to keep on to that question. We have got, uh, sort of in County around Modesto and the ones around path and it's very close little group and, uh, hang together pretty

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good and we hope to get them closer coordinate and we do have a committee sort of elected, although they don't have their officers elected as yet. Pitch picking is going on pretty well. And I mean, I think most anybody who has transportation get a job, uh,

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as of next week and the price of have to record this, uh Frank us or some of them trying to get by Chief to begin with. Uh I think that most of them are paying the price that we ask now to briefly. I think that covers

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a lot of the most range of people who have ever been associated with the AC. Also, they are also here tonight, Brother Leroy Hager and sister Dorothy Hager. Well, I wonder if they would like to scrap among themselves as to which of them is gonna give

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us a few words. But we, I, we also pray now over right. Uh, we house at this point in the program. Another one. Yeah, who is another member

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of the executive committee which we elected last Friday. I was going to ask brother Raul to give us a report on the Rosado situation, but he's busy out of the office doing precisely the type of activity on which I was going to ask him to report.

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It seems that a fellow came in here just a few minutes ago who had a wage plane? Oh, wow. Ok. But in $150 or so, and Raoul is making himself, we will take the case of the library commission. This is another one of the impact activity

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which the A WLC is going to continue to carry on. We are two Spanish speaking person still on the staff and I'm sure they're gonna, uh, continue to adopt in this way on a volunteer basis. And that's speaking of my no, seem to be stopping records

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just last night. Just a little lighter, buried somewhere age 34 or something like that for on August 10th. You mean I A Rosado identified is called Lupe Nus 30 was electrocuted late yesterday when he swung a 30 ft irrigation pipe into a 12,000 coal power. The

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accident occurred on the Giffin Enterprise branch southwest of Fresno near one of the largest in the state, which means that it's one of the largest in the world. And this is very reminiscent of a case that took place done because c account. So Tracy 59 and

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then after a WCP one, like people down there, also, we are concerned about this type of thing because, but I said it was like five more words of two, even though we are of the opinion outside of program, you may eliminate it because it is no

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favor anybody involved, including the hotels themselves. So long as they are in this country, we certainly think that they find the basic human rights, basic human beings. There will probably be something on the order of 10 thousands. I was certified for mayor in this county alone

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very shortly. What this means is that there are 10,000 jobs available for domestic workers if they want. And another one of the functions of the aid that you will see during the weeks ahead, going to see that you get new rights in this regard. Who yet?

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Right, if you get p by a contractor or a grower who would refer to these as Mexican nationals rather than local people, you get thrown into a field alongside the loss so that your work is cut in half. You don't get a full day's work because

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too many workers there. This is another type of violation. We prepared to help you process that kind of just keep us informed. Yeah, we have in the eighties during this period. One of these days perhaps we will be insufficient to elect the losers with the locals

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which are being established. Stanislaw County a few minutes ago in Fresno counties and in another a number of other areas in the state, all of these are going to continue to function under a statewide organization. The A WC statewide director of the A WOC has found

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and regardless our financial condition, but he is going to stay with this move for two, one, the state director now to make new announcements which I know he has and this challenge. Yeah, the workers was less than we need. I want to make to you is

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one that perhaps most of you know, and that is that and they cases in Imperial County where yeah, and about 34 people for 35 people be charged after the mass arrest. We had and we are 14 of those trials we with and took in which they

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were given suspended scientist, one man made f and all of the charges raise. So would have been the very worst moment to have been right that every line un deceivable and kid and the, and we have put up a total of between 800,000 and a million

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dollars worth of bonds only because house workers that are associated with the players who have had right. Whole get it from t $1000 and bonding fees are all in most places the that the first charges, the charges were immediately closed the bond or that they and

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then need to be real by right. Shouts number seven be the same o'brian two three that the state Supreme Court or the superior that the charges were kidnapped him, a conspiracy to kidnap against the 23 people that were in the

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so called corona, ok? Follow the leadership people that we had on the site and now you in not a single official on the staff and of planning rank and fire coming from this descent. Now, yeah, the Supreme Court has ordered the kidnapping charges drive and it

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will be the sixth of September before will be made on the court because we're really nice. It will be somehow we thrive in those states and reconsider the event that made he gets and were charged. Bring one because of the people that are try to be

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sung by here and we respect the Australian what people, ok? Move for the bomb. Although their patients were only misdemeanors in most stages. I think the salt our room to f that one of the defense, they will be the most safe because nothing because all of

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the evidence introduces by the, we are not take the word out of the judgment of the state interpreter. So it is necessary for us to keep an interpreter along with the lawyers necessary to have a great deal of investigating works being in that place and the

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civil cases. Oh, that's right. They're going to run somewhere and they do $25,000 what to this situation throughout the entire nation. And of course, from January a dead ha many people would refer to you can read them or get the publicity and the paper that you

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would get. Yeah, she was still knowing that what kind of place in burial and since the ending of that equipment there. Yeah, to outstanding connection with that when we're with these things to so, and as soon as we are, have gone, a number of lawyers have

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come forward and proper specifications on the contended and most of the loss of pay or the time that spent in jail or the time that they lost in attending the trial that it should never have to the same over time. One of the defendants are switch,

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the is very sick in the Highland Hospital and Highland California all was happy. He is a leader from SW I was too late to get in contact with the blood bank where on Saturday, whether they work or not, anybody that would want to donation of blood

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while there, some of that is completely broke, having been able to work on all the summer because we've had to keep in contact with these as most of them. You know, that the farm worker doesn't accumulate, but I wish you would get in touch with us

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that baby three 60384 to it. Yeah, it take a while after get his credit and with the M I it can be done on. So most of you that are here have heard me for the last two years say why we came in here, why we

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one was a potential agricultural workers is organized boy out of that free and see that the agricultural work because it to see that I need to help himself where they can do it Saturday week for the protection of the rest of life. I that at least

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75%. You know that we see be running answer you. It's on labor being under law and this video, right? They people to go and the mind the standard that they have established over the years. Yeah. Yeah, please open the door. Move over four years. Yeah,

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contract and do the job of the play that we should have done with all of that. Four. Yeah. 155. No, that come on dear. All right, thank you. Love doing work that they would have not been done and we had a,

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make a home where they ever no know people's. Yeah. Some of the things that the people who work on never saying because good job, like, ok, the people from the schedule coming out to taking my job heard people say what the use of it was our

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job, man. I was from nature in what? Down? And it not any fight we need at least 100 and when they, the one some. No. So true they've got out of salt. They, so people that is charge. See you eventually. I'm

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ok. It's. Oh. Mhm. Please go. People. Sure. Yes. If we can want to be that get, yes. What they say and develop the income that yeah, you, I,

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and I get the pain. Yes. Yeah. Oh. Right. Reset. Yeah. Me a time. I love these with the people that live in Hollywood.

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Yes, sir. 100 lots. As tell the, with patient people feel out there and talk. Mhm. Right. People of 100 years, a few months I ready. Yes, they one for a couple of years. Yeah, we shouldn't forget that. Yeah,

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I, so finally and all this you already made. Yeah. Yeah. The doctor, you spending money that four people now. But I saw that. Yes. The, the I, again and therefore hard way what I, that

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I can probably stay here more than if I just fed up with, not, not, I hope that I can find somebody that will continue to see that with the feel the same way that have come forward and said, what can you? Yeah, there too. Thank you.

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And would say, yeah, the hardest thing of us, the job will have to be done. Thu stay off two C start Zero certified. Yeah. Yeah. Something about yeah, together and made the whole season. Or keep taking away that love. So, see, getting away with it being,

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but on. No. Ok. And the contractor's name is not very hard for. Mhm. That get set. Oh, vote. Because if these handicapped people he can't get the job done. Mr President. I love you last time they died a lot of turkey before. So you're gonna need

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to weigh your seven as a option, right? Possible. The buses are always on want that has to, ah, that not change. You can get more such people to be here and I see them going in that play. I, that you're getting tired at

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the time. First one I think for the things that have to be said and sometimes, ok, I'm happy to call me patient because I told they, I know they saw the particular time they wanted to, they couldn't win. We have some, this operating. We, we have,

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yeah, people and we have to, at the time of war now we can look back and a, so a few of the out of jail with. Right. No, in your home and then temporarily death we're going to send you to for us because yeah, believe that

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our president will excuse me from letting other people but that the agricultural workers are going to have to use and all that is just a little bit from saying about, I think. Thank thank you. You were here two weeks ago discussion. The question A I know

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we have with us tonight and you done looking at the, took it upon himself to write from done. Get interesting. I understand that he got a reply to his letter just today. And I think to all of us, he was reading books, mas know the front

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to I do. There was some question that you asked, I about worrying A WC ST here. The question, however, I was demeaning not so much to ask that question in a letter of protest point for the uh years. No, all that I the value and support

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of the maybe the timeliness of this enough but not even worse motivation for an unhappy combination. Both it is not by the purpose to discuss labor movement. Has a great deal problem with this name was called, see those problems over and again, more severe. The recent

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decision of putting America's most abandoned workers in the midst of a hard season elements. History is one of the low points. Have you waited until the end of the hard season this year. Maybe uh many would have understood why precisely now all the farms and their

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price each zero at the top that will be similarly better. The uh the remain wrote this in your father. Du. This will lead to acknowledge your letter of excitement, expressing your interest in the work being done by the Irish. I appreciate your interest in the generation

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of their determination to help the agricultural workers. All of us agree with you that this is the most important and necessary endeavor. You perfectly takes not only effort and interpretation. Tay was one what? And in a short time, he has spent well over half a million

01:03:07.399 - 01:03:28.919

dollars while I was here at the time of the month, which is important. What is a parallel importance? Lt I and regardless of what stories were heard in the press typically does have sufficient funds to keep up such an outlay of expenses. You ain't never know,

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has no intention of robbing these people as reported by the press. When we do intend in the light of our experience, high school, a half years, I am all the way to the help of the nation's agricultural work. Jeremy. What? Yeah, wears up pretty well. No,

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the problem of writing and finding out where the A MC said that night serves as governor, our secretary and treasurer. This is w we introduce some other thing. Yes, we have a little student night. So everyone

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was here last week, I'm sure the speech that we heard from sister an Graber clothing burgers and sister Paper is with us again to see. Oh, that he wants to uh, think the speech to us again. But she has gone with her some guests and I

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would like to ask her to introduce them to us. Feel as though I was to be a member of the a supporting our author to create. I just Jack last week, he is a vice president of the wood work as union, an officer of the union.

01:06:02.149 - 01:06:48.719

Last three has been attending with other trade unionists at school at the university and workplace. Heard of Toss Tonight. See what the hair or c friends and might need some help. I'd like to call on Brother Moore to introduce his fellow to with Mr that are

01:06:48.729 - 01:07:08.280

going to the University of California with me. Want to come up tonight to try and get to know the agricultural workers and their problems. They come from the United States and from other countries. Unfortunately, I didn't know about this meeting tonight until late yesterday. But even

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at that uh last minute, uh former trade unionist came up with me to uh take a look at the situation in face of the agricultural workers. And I'm quite certain that they will go back to the section of the country that they come from and try

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and get a and the labor movement that they represent to help the agricultural workers uh in their fight to get a decent and uh uh proper standard with not for themselves, for their families. And first of all, I'd like to do s uh introduce sister uh

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Shirley Daniels from the Steelworkers Union in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Next, his brother uh Dave Murie from the anonym Meat Cutters Union. He works out of Boston Massachusetts, brother Bo Jenks, you know Fritz Jorgensen also. No. Now, before I sit down, I would like to assure all

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of the agricultural workers that are settled here tonight that the people that I have been associated with the last two months who represent unions like the IVEW, the United Auto Workers, the United Steel Workers uh amalgamated he cutters, the, the International Association and many other of

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the margin that the people that I've been associated with the last two months have a deep concern to the agricultural work. Be leave the cannot until every section of working class people had a decent and honorable standard with it until the can win with dignity around

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the streets of any city in the be willing to do whatever we can with the unions that we represent, give you financial support. God absolutely trained support as we possibly can. They need reign of the empire very good. And in Canada for that matter are behind

01:09:59.250 - 01:10:27.700

the driving the agricultural work. It's unfortunate that in the 1939 until 1959 when most of the industrial workers in North America were joining unions and raising their living standards, raising their working conditions, getting sanitary proper sanitation that the one area of working class people in, in

01:10:27.709 - 01:10:55.609

North America that was neglected at that time were the agricultural workers. And I'm quite certain that all of us agree that we have not accomplished anything if we allow any safer. Where? Yeah. Ok. We who have been fortunate enough to organize long before you are reaping

01:10:55.620 - 01:11:18.100

the benefits of organization in the way of lo uh uh shorter hours, better working conditions and higher rate. And I'm certain that you will find a tremendous response among the rest of the labor moves now to undertake to carry on your organization and to build it

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from here on. Wait, thank you very more. And once again, on behalf of the Northern California Area Council, the A WLC, welcome you and your guests and following our adjournment this evening, safer if you want the rest of my time to talk. White dude, report to

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you. Now, upon the sorts of decisions which have been made over the past week by the executive committee which you elected last Friday, as I said earlier, has met twice since then in rather long and high productive session. A number of the sorts of things which

01:12:28.450 - 01:12:52.209

your executive committee has been considering, have already been discussed this evening. But there remain a few points that I'd like to bring up. Now for one thing as you may recall in our meeting last Friday, you gave your executive committee the authority to and to itself

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to select new members of the executive committee. And thus far, we have selected very many. Unfortunately, he is not yet back in this area. I know, but as soon as you'll be attending the meetings of the executive committee too, and they expect to be selecting other

01:13:19.069 - 01:13:54.609

members from time to time in the future. So the executive committee decided that we might all profit from having an alias report to be made up of representatives of various other organizations in this community and this county whose interests are very, very similar to ours. And

01:13:54.620 - 01:14:21.700

at the outset, it occurred to us that we ought to invite such groups as the cso young Christian Workers Vaginal Association for the investment of colored people and uh one or two others whose name is Steve Mo to select from among themselves, representatives to serve on

01:14:21.709 - 01:14:49.180

an advisory board, right? A could be kept informed of what we earn and we can be kept informed of what they are doing. And we might pull in the same harness. These letters asking these organizations to appoint people to ANVI board have not yet been written

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because we made this decision only last Tuesday evening. But as soon as we can, we'll set these up. No, a third point has to do with the structure area council where it fits into the larger seam of the aw let me read to you from the

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valley. A citizen probably not the president uh concerning action was taken by the fire workers in the which uh sort of provides an inspiration or the structure that we're trying to set up here. They set up a branch in Kor and I'm just going to paraphrase

01:15:56.930 - 01:16:22.520

the first part of this article. They've set up a branch in Kepler and are in the process of trying to set up branches in various other. Yeah, Harford, for example. Oh and Larry Fresno kings kn each of these brands. It is expect we'll select a representative

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to serve on an area wide council. And beyond that, we hope that each of these councils and both select a representative to serve on a statewide coordinating committee. And I'd like to read for you some quotes from Bill o'rear who is the Secretary of the Fresno

01:16:46.549 - 01:17:09.169

Madea Labor Council who attended this meeting in where this first branch is set up because I think that the things that he says here are very well worth keeping in mind. Secretary to Beer said that the council set up proposing Cutler and similar independent methods. What

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were used successfully in organizing the cotton plants, dried fruit houses, creameries and canneries before these workers became affiliated with the established. Yeah, the International Union did not come in and organize these people. We are said these people organized themselves with a minimum of outside assistance after

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they established their unions and set up going organizations, various internationals moved in to gain their affiliation. This may sound like a tough way to organize, but this is the way we get strong unions. Some people even say it's impossible. But these are the same kind of

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people who said it was impossible to organize in the 19 thirties. So this is essentially what we're trying to do and the sun of the down and established life, we hope we can do something south another area, the project to state so that we will have

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a strong network. Local organizations bound together into the strong state wide. No, when I was up on this platform last week, I told you that we hope within the next few days, be able to send out a letter to all the central labor councils in the

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state, calling your attention to our situation. Fantastic. No, yesterday and today this letter was sent out. They're all I 40 34 that the labor council in all of them receive this letter do only parts of it to give you something of its like brothers and sisters

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in the labor. We did not join the agricultural workers organizing committee just to become another chapter in the long history of attempts to build a union of farm workers in California. We joined this drive because we were determined to write our own book. From beginning to

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end. There are circling and the whole our campaign is dead. But games such as we have made cannot be allowed to die. The emerging dignity of farm workers in this state cannot be allowed to wither. We are determined to preserve that neighbor Central Labor council to

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make a commitment to this cause. Ask your local union, your international union, make an additional individual if you are able to help us write the last evening chapters in this book which it has taken a century to write the building of the union held by four

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agricultural workers. Thank you on behalf of your brothers and sisters in the fields. And this letter is signed by Norman Smith and by the chairman of the four area councils which had been set up at the time. The letter is written, of course, it's too early

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for us to have enemy replies. But on the basis of the courage which we have received from Mr O'er, the president made Labor Council, for example, from Mr of the uh county Central Labor Council. We are usually think that uh we get to respond to that

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of this. We have also, I must say we are in your executive committee that a little folder looks like this in the front. We have some additional copies up here. Many of you are welcome to uh help yourselves to after the end of the meeting to

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see what our literature is beginning to look like. And uh this tells the a woc story to the general in this happened just as widely as we can. Um church rule, civic groups, everyone else that uh we need might possibly be interested. And for example, we

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tell here of the accomplishments of the A WC during its 1st 2.5 years and I stress the fact he's grow in the 1st 2.5 years that there are more years wanting in appears to me that perhaps some of you have a have these accomplishments summarized in

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any brief form before. So what we're going to do is put out another slightly uh different version of this table to include the same information as to a wco we will print this in both English and Spanish available for distribution to the farm workers throughout the

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state. I don't have time I read to you from the standard. But um I think that it could be of some interest to you if you want to get copies of it, as I said, after the meeting breaks up. Well, I think surely, so we'll be

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getting some help because people have become more concerned. Yeah, the finally in the past 2.5 years than they have ever been before. And I think that some of them at least are going to be willing now to help us. But as Norman has said, and as

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I think it can't be repeated too often, they're only going to help us to the extent that they can see we at the same time, best to help ourselves. Now, this is the final point. So I want to cover in my report to you mainly the

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sort of program which your executive committee proposes to carry out here in the San Joaquin County area as an indication that we are alive. I we're gonna continue doing and that we deserve the interest and the attention and the support of the labor movement and of

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the general public throughout the state of California. You've already heard in previous reports this evening that we will continue, do not represent this. You're on the streets, you have heard reports that we will have representatives who will be prepared to process grievances and the place from

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any part of English speaking or Spanish speaking, whether an American citizen or a Mexican citizen, any part of because the problems on the farm reports are essentially the same for everyone who works. Now, there are a few other things that we're going to be doing. We're

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going to start holding meetings in the neighborhoods of so a considerable of farm workers live in the year around are sometimes referred to as the Home Guard. In many ways, it's more difficult to reach them that it is to reach the people who get their jobs

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in the shape up here. All the rubber traps were congregated and certain kinds of the how to live and so forth. These people are a little easier to reach because they bunch up a little more, but we can't ignore the whole gun and we don't propose

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to do so. So here are, we're beginning by getting a list of who works in the field and military stop in the year around and we can get these subtle target where pressure attack. After we get these lists, we're going to go out and we're going

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to knock on these people's doors. Wow. To know about their power. Ask them if they might like to meet with some of their neighbors who have very similar problems in Little House. Maybe you only have a do top maybe 8, 1012 after you, we are talking

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about the in the new wage order which is going to go into effect on the 28th of August away in Georgia. The mind is now this needs to be explained to people pretty technical in some respects. What does it do for you? What doesn't it do

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for you at the present time? There's no way people can find this out because the government is going down to manpower to keep people informed. That's one of the things that I think we might have and these on the first of October, another state law is

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going to go into effect. This is the first time I'm going to be targeted by disability insurance if we pay for their hospital bills for conditions, which they got off the job. This is also something that needs to be explained because it's a pretty technical matter.

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And as far as I know the State Department of Employment, which is going to be the money of the state doesn't have any plans to hold house meetings out in the neighborhood where farm workers live and explain it to them. So who's gonna explain it to

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him? Well, I suggest this is the sort of thing that the A W will see and, and should be doing from here on end politics. So we can be talking about to get people meeting each other, people who may have lived in the same neighborhood that

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have been farm workers for years. But in his past, haven't happened to cross. They've got to start, they've got to start meeting together and talking together, sharing their problems, getting to trust each other. And if you accept responsibility for solving some of this problem, we're going

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to have a neighborhood organization sub-committee of our executive committee who just would be so this kind of program in places like Bo Track Marwood district send vs this year other outlying portions of Stockton where we have reason to know many hundreds of farm workers, probably thousands

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of farm workers live. Still another type of activity in this last time. I still another type of activity which your executive committee proposes to carry on during these coming weeks in life consists of publicity and we can talk about this in uh two t first of

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all, we need to keep you in for, we'd like to start publishing a newsletter again. As you may recall, the A woc published a newsletter for about a year suspended for one reason or another. We'd like to resume this suddenly if the people of California are

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going to be watching us and helping us, they also need to be adjustment form as to what we're doing. So they'll try to have a speaker bureau, people who go and dress any group which wants an official representative of the A WC to, uh tell them

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about these developments. We expect to be sending out new releases to the new, the television station, right? And maybe you can, uh, is to you on a news letter also the general public, particularly those people who as far as meetings are concerned. This brought us another

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way by which we keep to ourselves entitled, it was a decision on our executive committee that, hello, we probably shouldn't try to have mass meetings here every Friday night because you see, we've been spending property our full time working on these meetings which has left us

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time to organize the neighborhoods or process grievances and fields work on publicity or do the many other things which we should be doing, makes better sense meetings every Friday night. And you would be logical here in the west end that it would be logical for that

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brand to meet here. I hope there would be a branch in Bostra, which would meet Bostra every Friday in Moscow or the mckinney District or Dog Pat, we call it, which would meet ok, Friday night and so forth. Perhaps once a month, all the rations to

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get together in an area meeting which would have to be held in a place large enough to accommodate a couple of 100 people. And, uh, maybe after a year, on the other hand, we may not, uh, continue paying the rent here. We might start having our

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mass meetings of the A ie we where uh we also have accommodation to see from a lot of people. We'll keep you informed. But as of next Friday, our meeting will be decentralized rather than trying to have a call down here. Does anybody else have any

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other announcements? You may call the endured? Yeah, I just talked to B here and they have a good team back rather heard from a lot of that. A good many of you who have been remind me mean about it, use it to despite perhaps someone would

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forbid this response, we can't overlook the fact that there the hours late, it was any harm for the a all these things. I know about that election tonight. What they might be promising to do organization signed a counterpart of a big profit and we, I only

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signed a contract with him because he thought he would promote the loans and con I understand union does not agree with that. I know some of the people at the local level. My dead, he told me two years ago, the first time that I met him

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I've ever become convinced that you're going to do this, get this job done. I want to be the first to sign the contract that he was taught by some of the people in. Thanks for joining in and the that they can pull a video for him.

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He's a gambler nation over the fact for two years, this kind of establishment that we could get together, maybe I made some mistakes that we were in town. I know there are very many people agree with. I've been to, to keep all of the staff agreed,

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but at least we have an opportunity to get you together and tell you exactly what we have got the public interest in them and they have sent that the Columbia Broadcasting System, I got politics as we spent the entire, we don't show you this picture just

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so that you about the what you let me show you grew up because the Columbia Broadcasting System of making not some of the other stations that to be into it. Some of you have seen the bitter hearts shows the conditions in California. We have made a

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picture over a two week said the Kidney Eye Imperial five. We don't show you these because, but we are so that you will know what we are showing to the rest of the people two weeks ago and I call him before you start and believe, look

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at the situation because within two years you will be dealing with someone. It may not be a need with to know that sometimes before you win a campaign, somebody gets knocked up. But you're going to some and you may be dealing with somebody that's a lot

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more hardcore than William Mr, the Secretary of the Peace Drawers Association and he sold that for and then yes, almost 25%. I as a no stick with the same problems. We know that some of these days we're going to be dealing with the union with those

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on a dumb spirit. A lot of work to continue to find out. They say that in my opinion, Mr B has done a pretty lousy job when he sells the peaches for $55 a ton. One with a one. I think the same thing can be said

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in that. Yeah, if we had somebody seven as a contractor, but it seemed to me that I found my t looking at the wrong. But they question, yeah, maybe I spent 10 years to help organize another industry that they've told us, couldn't be organ. We're about

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two years outside strike and check on a shot. I'm gonna kill it. All the things that have been said, all of the criticisms that have been made all year that we should turn the buses over in the street or that we want that. Yeah, going to

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do those kind of things don't be taught on. I don major and keep up with the LA. But, you know, there are a group of people in the textile workers who, and who were veteran on, he turned up that was a principal witness against him, was

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held on a number of other charges. One and the fact that they took one for the fact that and innovation that he's working for a couple of contractors there is just, they've been making their living out of stealing, be the Facebook and they join him that

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if he was committed again and it would be set up reason, turn fake evidence and proceeded to tell a whole lot of things that were not true that a lot. But I do feel hurt the one that shift and I told him when I came here,

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did I stay here long enough to put him on my chart? J Right. Wonder once each one of us had a whole? He told me so all money. I said that you still have to be dealing with people and you haven't got sense enough to what?

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Yeah, he asked if you can't get think, yes, that they can get it looking for each other. Things are changing over there a little bit. We've got to get to the people, particularly the ones that are coming from. We see the same amount

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of educational job years because of people, right? They get something to say about the people that and how to make a living. Hello, when I get on one of these go along some ministry because outside of the no churches by most ministers have their fine women.

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There's so many things that has to be done in such a short time. And when I find something that I feel is in very, sometimes I perhaps impose on just a couple of very brief questions. In addition to that happened, which I told you we had

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extra copies of which you invited and read. We have a couple of other materials there which you are also welcome to copies of the East Bay Labor Journal of Last Friday where you can see many of you can see this headline. Our worker fight continues a

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woc it takes that long on you. We also have extra copies here of some of our plans for in the neighborhood among the home God, which I mentioned would like to pause my introducing to some of the other members of the executive committee who are here

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tonight. I want to understand and we all of them in to see us to talk with us and tell us the sorts of things that you think your executive committee should be considered in its twice a week meetings because we only exist to serve your well

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brother Juarez. He stand so we can, I'll get to know you of Rito Ortega is Dr corporate here. His brother Lopez, Frank Lopez. I know he's here early in the evening and his sister on go on eating also, you know, get a report, a good excuse.

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Are there other members of the executive to meet here tonight? We have to introduce it. Lassie is up in Lake County in the parish. Well, you'll be back in a few weeks and, uh, so was brother Hayes who was elected last Friday. Unless there are other

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announcements in view of the late hour. I'm going to ask for Claire's motion to be adjourned. Will the members of the executive committee please meet right afterwards. Right up front. Do I hear the motion? Yeah, favor we are there. Thank you very much. What

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is your name, please? Natin Peska. When did you come to the United States and drinking? And, uh, have you been a farm worker ever since? Yes, I, I have been a farm worker since up to the, what kind of farm work have you done? She kind

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of work, um, forms like, uh, lettuce carrots as part of his graves. Fruit and sprouts mostly in California. Yes. Only once. I had been in Arizona and in 19 31 I think it was about a month. What parts of California have you worked in? And uh

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work center Mar and Shan San Joaquin Valley about the he, this is Selena, Santa Clara Clara and Santa Cruz Card. Were you in the service during the war. Yes, I was, I sh, and the army for, um, exactly for four years during the second World War.

01:50:45.060 - 01:51:21.939

Where were you stationed? And the Southeast Pacific area. Were you in the infantry? Yes, I was. Have you ever been in a union before? No, sir. This is my first, uh, time to be a member of the union. Do you think a union would be a

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good thing? I believe, I believe the union is a good thing for any working man. So, as they say, unity, this is stronger than individually. Did you ever get married? I see. Never, never had the chance, never had a chance. Is that because you didn't make

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enough money. I, I think it's one of those one reason why I, again, because I'm afraid to, to have a family without a good paying job. When you came to this country. Did you think you would stay here all your life or did you think you

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might return to the Philippines sometime? I thought I could return in the Philippines. You never could and they could have. Why was that money? I was not getting? I was not making enough to go back in my thyro uh to the coins after you finish the

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Brussels Sprouts in Santa Cruz County. Where do you go from there or do you stay here in Santa Cruz County? After the season is over? I go to a spot. It was since, uh, here in Santa Cruz when the season is over, there is nothing to

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do for about two months or so. So, you go to San Joaquin County, San Joaquin County and after the Asparagus, what do you do? Then I come back in working properly now. W, uh, working on the sprat w planting. Oh, I see. Do you expect to

01:54:06.939 - 01:54:34.640

retire someday? Yeah, I, I guess everybody expect to retire. But how could we, we re retire, retire with this kind of wages we are getting? Well, do you think maybe this is one of the things the union could do for your, I guess it's, I think

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the union could help us from that. Have you ever been discriminated against? Because you're a Filipino? That is, that I can, because I have been always, uh, working with Filipinos. I cannot say whether I have been discriminated against any group because I have been always, uh,

01:55:09.669 - 01:55:55.600

working with finos. Do you have some more questions there, Larry. Do you think we're going to win this strike? I believe we have pretty, pretty good chance of, uh, growers heating our, our demand. So, I think we will, we in this destroy. Is there anything else

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you would like to say? I got you. Well, thank you very much. I'm gonna check it in. I'll hold it, I'll hold it. Ok. Uh, my name is, uh Rope Neer and I came from the northern part of the Philippines, which

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is Luzon. I came to the United States in 1926 and I was 17. Then I landed in San Francisco, California. And I have done domestic work and I have been working in the farm since then. I don't prefer any kind of farm work. They are all

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the same to me. What kinds of farm work have you done? Well, usually, uh just like uh tapping baits, for instance, uh working on letters, baking beans, string beans. So I feel that they are all the same to me. They are all fun words. When I

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came to United States, I planned to come and study. But did the prison destroy all those plants or I've not been paid much. And the job that I had been having as a farm hand, I could only earn about 1500 a year. I work with the

01:58:14.919 - 01:58:49.240

same crew every year after year. I don't find my jobs. I always have a job. I always get paid when petty comes. Well, some of the housing are not very good. There is always a room for improvement that will conform with the housing laws of the

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United States before I came to the, in my early years in America, housing was not the