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Conflict. And uh number two that your union take provision. But in other words, would it include the the Mexican nationals as they come in or, or are you strictly for the protection of America? The answer to your first question uh is of course, in a way

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the the the the crux of our, of our criticism. Uh We don't believe that uh Mexican nationals are necessary uh at least by no means, uh at least to the extent that they have been brought in during the last four or five years. They uh history

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in certain crops. The correlation between the lowering of labor standards, particularly wages and the increase in Mexican national is a very obvious one. Uh I'm very uh fortunately, iii I have, I'm able to lay hands on a, on a parallel situation that has nothing to do

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with agriculture. And that is in the field of teaching in California, in public school teaching. Uh Curiously enough, there has been an acute and chronic shortage of teachers, classroom teachers for almost exactly the same period of time that there has been an alleged acute and chronic

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shortage of farm workers. And for that reason I have looked into the conditions under which public school teachers are employed and I'm very much struck by the fact that there are in California, somewhere around 100,000 certified classroom teachers who are not working, who have struck, they're

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on strike. What didn't they like? They didn't like the low wages. They didn't like the arbitrary administration did. They, like, they didn't like their, their lack of civil rights because in many districts, they can't even see their personnel fire. I can't see that personnel file. Uh,

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these are the conditions which many teachers didn't like and they dropped the profession and did something else. Now, I would say that in California, we have more or less the same number of domestic workers, uh who are unemployed or only partially employed because the working conditions

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have gone down. And I was just telling you that in my own home county of Santa Clara, we would be able to provide, uh, the growers in that area with, uh, with all the help they need if they were only willing to restore the previous wage

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scale, not to raise them above pre-existing levels, but to go back to what they were paying for. And five years ago, I ask you your second question. Uh, we, we would be glad as a union to enlist to admit into our group, the Mexican National provide

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that they were brought in here only on two conditions, an absolute ironclad guarantee that wages and working conditions would not be depressed. And secondly, that there was an actual provable shortage of competent manpower in this state. If those two conditions are met and the state of

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California were to need, say 15 or 20,000 Mexican nationals, we would be more than glad to have them in our ranks. As a matter of fact, uh I think I ought to tell you that possibly one third of our time uh in our union uh of

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my own work and those of my associates volunteer organizers, about one third of our time in the last 10 years has been spent in taking care of grievances of Mexican National. They are not members of our union, they don't pay to, but they come to us

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in the last stages of distress and you cannot turn them, you have to represent them at best. Majority is the last question. It is one of our problems. Take the problem. The fact that uh uh 9% uh area of California is represented the state in by

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a majority. As I, I always remember the times I watched the uh all IP to social security and day after day, there will always be 21 votes in the state senator regardless. So who would have to be, they played the uh they changed places but all

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21 votes was closed. This is our problem in California, the State Senate, but its agricultural do is the thing that got us all from, I heard there the law. Well, uh probably, probably that uh that is true if we were absolutely dependent on new legislation. In

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other words, if we had to put some new bills through uh through Sacramento to change these conditions, uh this state of affairs, very likely block uh progress. But I want to return to a point which I have stressed and I want to emphasize it again that

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we have administrative remedies at hand. I think that much of the improvement that we are suggesting can be made under power and authority which the executive branch of our state government now has. And returning to your point of these, uh he's 21 while we show up

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on that side of the line, I don't think that that's an insoluble problem if we do a good job of educating the public as to what these 21 votes mean. Uh For instance, if the senators from uh such counties as uh YOLO and so, and uh

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San Joaquin and Stanislas or to be faced with a description of the state of affairs in the Bracero program of which there supporters are the direct beneficiary. And if they were then to be asked, is this what you stand for? Is this what you 21 vol,

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we would be posing questions which have never been asked those young. That's why I'm suggesting to support an investigation of the program by the state legislature because such an investigation would bring out the fact that there is a, a juggling of, of uh figures in such

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a way so that a shortage of farm labor is proved. But when an outsider asks questions about the figures that have been used, he is told this is none of your business. This is private top secret information. This is this dark answer that you get. Now,

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if a year from now or six months from now, there were a AAA factual description of the situation not by us because obviously we wouldn't be, we wouldn't be slanted, but we would be highly bub on the subject. I'm sure uh brought by a uh a

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public body. Once that public, that information is in the hands of the public of groups like this, you would have something against which to check those 21 votes, those 21 votes mean a continuation of this situation. A public education job has got to be done. Otherwise

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that's, that's that front I think would be unreadable uh friends. The hour is getting late and Mr Garzo does have a meeting with the committee of the Labor Committee of this afternoon. I think we might recognize one more question. And then those of you who have

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further questions, if you want to meet later on with him and the other and the committee you may do so, then we had a question right here as a very, very welcome with the squeeze that you speak of that we're being subjected to because of the

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abuse of this. I would like to get your as to whether the family size farmer who was probably making it as badly as the compact labor. Not a very and on the second and we clean up this entire situation because we are the ones that are,

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uh I mean, it would become a poop issue in our case to add to the moral aspect of human. I would like to hear an expression. Iiii I hardly concur. Uh we have, we have realized that what you say is, is true uh from experience in

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the field, it has been my uh my uh feeling I have known rather that by and large, the small working farm is willing to pay a much better wage to the domestic worker, whether it be a year on worker or a harvest worker than the corporation

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bank. And we have, as a matter of fact, at certain times in our activities found as a differential of as much as 35 cents an hour between the wages paid by small growers and the w paid by commercial growers, the large corporation farms. And it will

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interest you to know that in the year 1954. According to the Bureau of the Census report on agriculture in California, as I remember there were over 7005 in their numbers, over 6000 farms that were pain in 1954 a dollar 15 or more proud. And more than

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half of those farms were in the smaller categories, the margin of farms that supposedly uh are not able to compete wage in terms of wages with the large growers. So that from an economic standpoint, it is true. Our experience shows and the, the studies corroborate what

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I've said, the small farmer is not the man who is pressing for a starvation wage. Now, as to the other part of your question, could not the small farmers become a decisive uh leverage and struggle. I think they could, but I don't know where to reach

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them organization in the field. And we, we don't know where to go how to reach a, a, an organized group of local farmers and say to them, we can provide you with uh uh competent uh domestic workers uh at the waiters you have been accustomed to

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paying uh when we have done that. In times past, we find much to our dismay that the local Growers Association immediately puts a tremendous amount of heat on the small farmer and he is in a real jam because he does not have enough political support. But

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I should like to see an independent organization of small growers. And I mean, independent of the Growers Associations and independent of the associated farmers to work out an economic program uh and to co-operate with us, we would be more than glad to work with such a

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group. If it's a material available, any reports. Uh, yes. Uh, we, we do have, we have 22 propaganda tracks. I want to warn you about them. I wrote him and Castle. You have to like allowance. I think they are. I wouldn't have written them if I

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didn't think so. But they are the pats. They are attacks on the situation that we wish to see change. They are not phd CC. I don't have many but I'll leave with your chairman. Uh, a few that I have with me four or five and I

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will send him a pack for you to uh get from him. I think we will. Thank you because you have a nice good just going. Yeah. Hey, we don't have anything worth recording yet. Uh Just because there's a little song that uh I've liked for a

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good number of years. It was written by Negro that used to be a page boy in Washington and he played a banjo and went around to quite a few of their different parties. There. One thing and another song went something like this Black

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the Rain Day music. Just one. Would you like to play uh some songs that you've written isn't much, man. Well, in that case, play some songs that evening, but the other one, but you always have to be quiet. Well, we wanted to get that other one

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on tape for the kids. Ok. Well, I can come later. Why don't you play uh Poplarville Jam World? Do we get the toy in the car? Sure. I imagine we want to actually not quite warmed up for that yet. It's too nice a day to little

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such a song. Ok. The break of dawn is announced by an old Shanghai rooster who wakes the other denizens of the yard with his, the hens flock round to greet their lord and master while they scratch the ground, their little brews clamor noisily for the daintiest,

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their hunger at hes all are well satisfied and none more so than a little Bantam Rooster who emphasizes his approval of the by a shrill. The robin redbreast sat merrily in the old territories while the Mockingbird sings sweetly from his head under the eaves of the

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old red barge. The peacock just mainly around spreading his gorgeous plume and coaxing the admiration of his fellows. This ruffles the temper of the old turkey gobbler who gives vent to his displeasure. All the brindle console him. No, Steve brings the farmer boy to the milking,

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but first he drives Brindle's calf into the clover heels, boss. He doesn't like the separation, but CS and edges are along, snapping it off here and as they pass through the gate, they brush by an old jackass who revenges their presence. How are barked angrily at

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the intruder et to you're in danger that old jack asshole kicked your head off. Ah, we shall not be we shall not. The union is behind us. We shall not. Oh yeah, behind us. Move just like a tree that's

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standing on just like I but we will stand and fight together. We shall not be move. We will stand and fight together. We shall not be move just like a tree. I I but we shall not be over the light

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as we bar. Yes, we are black and white on a black and white. We shall die just like a friend. Good bye. We shall not. We, it, no, we go. We got, oh, hang on. Yeah, we're on a roll. We're

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going, we're going to run. If the boss gets in the way, the boss gets in the way. If the goons get in, we like go get in the way. If the scabs get, if the scouts get in the way, we're oh

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bravo, they won't stop us with that sort of welcome. All right, when the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run to do the sun yet. What course on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one makes us strong. The Yeah. N for

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the union makes us strong. It is we who plowed the prairies, built the cities where they trade, dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid. Now, we stand outcast and starving with the wonders we have made. But the union makes us strong.

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All right. Fire eight they have taken on told millions that they never toil to earn. But without our brain and muscle, not a single wheel can turn, we can break their holy power, gain our freedom. When we learn that the union makes us strong. Um oh,

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so strong in our hands is placed a power greater than their hearted gold, greater than the might of atoms magnified 1000 fold. We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old for the year. Takes a strong go

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or you can buy us. Just got to go down and join the I and, and enjoy the. She's got a pop has got to go down. He's not. Bye and no. Enjoy it. He's got a, you can and OK. Rock

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and rock. OK. Um Wait as we go marching, we are marching and we'll win that one day. I don't. Bye bye. I to as I what joining. Yeah. Bye. I interesting. That and by. Yeah. Enjoy it all guys. But

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they so sorry. I wait. So will we and I for we are not side by side. Well, um, comrade first, I think for time. Oh, really? See our number still increasing. Ere the Bugles blow by our union. We shall triumph every oh no,

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fine for the and oh one. I, well, your million and I, I don't want, want your rolls. Royce, Miss, I don't know. Pleasure to look for my baby is my old job. We work through this. This

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country miss while you and live. He was that we our and cream. Why? Ok. And money the right to learn this. Give me my God think me down if you wish Mr for me, you are this one. I sure miss my hungry. These must be mhm.

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Take her to parties. Mr no difference of we could people free or I your diamond has the right to left. Give me back. Now if you want higher wages, let me tell you what to do. You got to talk to the workers in the shop with

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you. You got to build you a union, you got to make it strong. But if you all stick together boys, it won't be long. You get shorter hours better working conditions, vacations, we pay, take your kid to the seashore. It ain't quite this simple. So I

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better explain just why I got to ride on the union train. Because if you wait for the boss to raise your pay, we'll all be a wait until judgment day will all be buried. Gone to heaven. Saint Peter will be the straw boss. Then now you

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know you're underpaid but the boss says you ain't, he speeds up the work till you're about to faint. You may be down and out but you ain't Ben. You can pass out our leaflet and call them eat and talk it over. Speak your mind, decide to

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do something about it. Of course, the boss may persuade some god damn fool to go to a need and act like a stool. But you can always tell a stool though. That's the fact he's got a yellow streak running down and back. He doesn't have the

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stool. He'll always get along on what he takes out a blind men's cups. You got a union now and you're sitting pretty for some of the boys on the steering committee. The boss won't listen. When one guy squawks with, he's got to listen. When the union

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talks, he'd better be might and lonely. Everybody decided to walk out on him. Suppose working you so hard is just outrageous. And they're paying you all starvation wages. You go to the boss and the boss would yell before I raise you pay. I see you all

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in hell. Well, he's buffing a big sea gull feeling mighty lick because he thinks he's got your union lick. Well, he looks out the window and what does he see? But I found them tickets and they all agree. He's a bastard on the bed. Slave driver.

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Betty beats his wife. Now, boys, you come to the hardest time the boss will try to bust your picket line. He'll call out the police, the National Guard, they'll tell you it's a crime to have a union card. They'll raid you meeting, they'll hit you on

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the head. They'll call every one of you a damn red unpatriotic Japanese spies sabotaging national defense. But out of Ford. Here's what they found and out at Vati, here's what they found and out of our Chalmers, here's what they found. And down at Bethlehem, here's what

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they found that if you don't let red baiting break you up and if you don't let stew pigeons break you up and if you don't let vigilantes break you up and if you don't let race hatred break you up, you win what I mean? Take it

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easy but take it. Oh What is that? The coming coming, come over that see coming, coming from, what is I see yonder coming, coming, coming long time ago, inside you and train coming, coming, come here coming, coming from me. Here your coming coming, coming down. Oh

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my God has done many 1,000,000. Yeah, 1,001,000 years and say are you th th th I want to get will say many more 1,000,000 BBB never, never found, found, found guilt. Oh well, free us to freedom and freedom and, and be and be and be and,

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and, and read and read and read and down. One. See yonder, our young coming, coming from earth, coming, coming, coming down. No, that you, you pray, coming, coming, coming, coming, coming, coming, coming from the girl. Yeah, from

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all of you. Good workers. Good news to you. I'll tell how the good old union has come in here to dwell. Put your side on, on which side are you? My daddy was a miner and I'm a minor son and I'll stick with the union until

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every battle's won. Are you on? Which side are you on? Question? They stay in Harlan County. There are no neutrals there. You'll either be a union man or a TJ H Blair 0.9. On which side are you on? Oh, workers. Can you stand it or tell

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me how you can, will you be a lousy C or will you be a man? What do you on? Which side are you don't scare for the boy? Listen to their lives as four folks haven't got a chance unless we organize. On which side are you

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on and wake eye on which side are you on the pressure? I once was a tool of oppression as green as a sucker could be and monopolies banded together to beat a poor hay like me. The railroads and the old party bosses together did sweetly agree.

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They thought there would be little trouble and work in a hay seed like me and work in a hay seed like me in working a hay seed like me. They thought there would be little trouble in work. A hay seed like me. But now I've roused

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up a little their greed and corruption. I see. And the ticket we vote next November will be made up of hay seeds like me. Well, well, hay seeds like me will be made up of hay seeds like me and the ticket. We vote next November will

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be made up of hay seeds like me when the farmer comes to town with his wagon broken down. Oh, the farmer is the man who feeds them all. If you'll only look and see, I think you will agree that the farmer is the man who feeds

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them all. Oh, the farmer is the man. The farmer is, the man lives on credit till the fall. Then they take him by the hand and they lead him from the land. And the middle man is the one who gets it all when the lawyer hangs

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around and the butcher cuts upon, oh, the farmer is the man who feeds them all. And the preacher and the cook go as strolling by the brook. But the farmer is the man who feeds them all. Oh, the farmer is the man. The farmer is, the

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man lives on credit till the fall with the interest rate so high. It's a wonder. He don't die for the mortgage man's the one that gets it all. When the banker says he's broke and the merchants up in smoke, they forget that. It's the farmer feeds

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them all. It would put them to the test. If the farmer took a rest, then they'd know that. It's the farmer feeds them all. Oh, the farmer is the man. The farmer is, the man lives on credit till the fall and his pants are wet in

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his condition. It's a sin. He's forgot that he's the man who feeds them all seven cent cotton and a 40 cent meat. How in the world can a poor man eat flour? A pie and cotton down low. How in the

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world can we raise the dough? Clothes? Worn out shoes. Run down old slaw. Chat with a hole in the crown back. Nearly broken and fingers. All sore cotton. Gone down to rise no more. Seven cent cotton and $8 pants. Who in the world has got a

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chance? We can't buy clothes. We can't buy meat. Too much cotton and not enough to eat. Can't help each other. What'll we do? I can't explain it. So it's up to you. Seven cent cotton and $2 hose. Guess we'll have to do without any clothes. Seven

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cent cotton and a 40 cent meat. How in the world can a poor man eat mules in the barn? No crop laid by corn crib empty and the cow's gone dry. Well, water lo nearly out of sight. Can't take a bath on a Saturday night. No

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use talking. Any man is beat with seven cent cotton and a 40 cent seven cent cotton and a 40 cent meat. All in the world can. A poor man eat poor, getting poorer all around here. Kids come in regular every year, patting our hogs take the

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town. All we get is six cents a pound. Very next day we have to buy it back 40 cents a pound in a paper sack. Sure. I was born long ago in 1894. I've seen many a panic I

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will own. I've been hungry. I've been cold and now I'm growing old, but the worst I've seen is 1931. All those beans, bacon and gravy. They almost drive me crazy. I eat them until I see them in my dreams in my dream when I wake up

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in the morning and another day is dawning. I know I'll have another mess of beans. Well, we congregate each morning at the county barn at dawning. Everyone is happy. So it seems. But when our day's work is done and we file in one by one and

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thank the Lord for one more messy beans. All those beans, bacon and gravy, they almost drive me crazy. I eat them till I see them in my dreams and my dreams when I wake up in the morning and another day is dawning. I know I'll have

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another mess of be, we've hooverize on butter and for milk. We've only watered and I haven't seen a steak in many a day. As for pies, cakes and jellies, we substitute sow bellies for which we work the county road each day. All those bees baking them

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almost drive me crazy. I eat them till I see them in my dreams in my dreams. When I wake up in the morning and another day is dawning. I know I'll have another nest of beans. If there ever comes a time when I have more than

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a dime, they will have to put me under lock and key for. They've had me broke so long I can only sing the song of the workers and their miseries and almost drive me crazy. I eat them till I see dreams in my dreams. When I

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wake up in the morning, another day is on. Have another. I'm 60% an American. I'm 60% a man. That's what parody says. I am. That's the law of the land. Now, do I work? 60% of each day eat 60% of my meals. And does my truck

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take me into town on 60% of its wheels? Now, will my chicks be content to eat just 60%? And will the middleman give my throat just 60% of the slash? Now all you workers in city and town, I know your budget's a mess. But when you

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get down to that last lousy buck, remember I'm 40 cents less stand out of issues. Rachel. They'll leave it right there. Yeah, I'm going down this road blowing down this whole lusty road. I'm going down this old dusty road, Lord Lord and I ain't going to

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be treated this way. And is I'm going where the water tastes like wine? I am going where the water tastes like I want to be treated this way. The most dust storms never flew. I'm going where the dust storms never blow this. We thus all refugees.

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They say I'm a dust refugee, Lord, Lord, but I ain't going to be treated this way. I'm looking for a job at honest pain. I'm looking for a job at honesty. I'm looking for a job at honest pay. Lord to be treated this way. My Children

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need three square meals a day. Me now my Children need three square meals a day. My Children need three square meals a day. Oh, want to be treated this way. It takes a 10 food. It takes a $10 shoe to fit my feet. It takes a

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$10 shoot. If it might feed long, I want to be treated this way while the shoe hurts my feet. Your $2 shoe hurts my feet. Yes, you too. Do a shoe hurts my feet and I ain't going to be I, you were on this dusty, blowing

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down this old dusty road. Want to be treated this way. I am a refugee. Just the best refuge. So that does fill the feeds. Now that the there's a killing now, trust me. Why he, it's a hard, just too high. We, the boy refuge learned it

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all. It's been that way. A and down that mountain across the desert just the best if you, we are around. So we are, we, we're the seas and we're the basketball, the south and the drought land come the wild on this. Oh, does like you as

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we ran and we, and the high weed. That's, and there, the ending high we there if you, yes, we were and we were in your, in your fruit. We, on the day that's with the, as you, you ra, that I be a, that you.

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Ok. I got a few little jobs helping a water well, driller holding figs, irrigating strawberries in the sandy land, laying roofs, hustling sign jobs with a painter. I followed the oil towns and found myself as far west as Hobbs, New Mexico. I learned how to play

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a guitar. A few of the easy chords and was making saloons like a preacher changing from street corner to street corner. I hit Tampa in the panhandle of Texas and stuck there a while and the dust storms began blowing blacker and meaner and the rain was

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getting less and the dust more and more. I made up a little song that went to 37 was a dusty year and I said, woman, I'm leaving here and on one dark and dusty day I pulled out down the road that led to California citizens groups,

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deputy thugs mean harness bulls and vigilantes. Good morning, baby. So, oh, have you seen that vigilante man? Have you seen you lie to me? Have you seen that vigilante man? I've been hearing his name all over the land. Well, what is a vigilante man? Tell me,

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what is this? L man. Has he got a gun and a club in his hand? Is that of the Jolan in man, rainy night down in the engine house sleep and just o as in mouse along and just as that in the rain was that and

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stormy days we passed the time of and three wrong. Please. We give of that of the Jew preacher Casey was just a working man and were in win some strange man was then a vigilant man. You for dinner? Why

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does a be a man anty man, a shotgun in his hand when he shoot his brother and sister died. I ran but ran from town to town on to town and they la the can of those that man. Have you seen that in your handy man?

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Have you? I just the further west you walk or brown or hotter still and emptier the country gets. I met the hard rock miners, old prospectors, desert rats and whole swamps of Hitchhikers. Migratory workers squatted with their little piles of belongings in the shade of the

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big sign boards out across the flat hard crust, gravelly desert kids chasing around the blistering sun, ladies cooking scrappy meals and sooty buckets scouring the plates clean with sand. All waiting for some kind of a chance to get across the California line. Lots

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of folks back east. He says leaving home every day, beating the hot old dusty way to the California line across the desert sand they all getting out of that old dust pool. They think they're going to a sugar bowl, but here's what they find. Now, the

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goalies at the court of increases your number 14,000 for. So if you ain't got the door, ra me folks, you ain't got the door ra me. Why? You better go back to beauty. Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee, California is the Garden of Eden, a paradise to live. But

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believe it or not, you will find. But if you ain't got no, you want to buy your home or farm that can deal no body harm or take your vacation by the mountains or sea. Don't swap

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your old C car. You better stay right where you are. You better take this little tip from me because I look through the want ads every day. But the headlines on the papers always say where you go to be, you ain't got the door me. Why

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you better go back to beauty and we thank you. The Georgia can see California is the garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or sea. But believe it or not, you won't find it so hard if you ain't got to go. Yes, I guess I'm

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what you'd call a migrant worker. I guess you had to think of some kind of a name for me. Uh Travel. Yes. If that's what you mean in your red tape and your scary offices. But you can just call me any old word you want to,

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you just set and call me off a whole book full of names. But let me be out on my job while you're doing the column. That way we can save time money and get more work turned out. I ain't nothing much but a guy walking along.

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You can't hardly pick me out in a big crowd. I look so much like everybody else. Streets, parks, big places. I travel. Hell yes, I travel. Ain't you glad I travel to work. If I had to stop, you'd have to up and leave your job and

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start traveling because it's a hell of a lot of traveling. It's got to be done if somebody hurt and this for Venus travels a out of your dust bowl and westward we rolled and your desert was hot and your mountain was one. Mhm. I

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worked in your orchard of pages and for leapt on the ground in the ladder on the edge of your city. You've seen us and then we come with the dust and we glow in the wind. California and Arizona. They call your pro and it's north up

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to Oregon together d the pieces from your ground, cut the grapes from your vine to set on your cave. And your mind sparkling green pasture looks like dry desert ground from the Grand Cooly Dam where the water runs down. Ever stayed in this union as migrants

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have been working in this fight. We will fight until we win. Well, it's always be around for the river and the valley. I'll work till I die. My land. I have been with my life if it, because the pastures. Yeah. I hate a song that makes

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you think that you're not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you're just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you're either too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too

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ugly or too this or too that songs that run you down or songs that put fun at you on account of your bad luck or your hard traveling. I am out to fight those kinds of songs to my very last breath of air and my last

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drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you down for a dozen loops, no matter how hard it's run you down a little over you no matter

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what color, what size you are, how you're built. I'm out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. This

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land is yours and, and this land is my land and the cow is born to the New York Island in the redwood to the Gulf stream was made for you. I went to walk in that remnant highway. I saw see that in the skyways. See that

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girl tell me this man was made for you. I will and I followed my footsteps to the park staff. I desert three A V. This land was made for you when the sun can shine and, and the wheat field wading in the this.