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AMENDING MIGRATORY LABOR LAWS 363 which he rents for $35 4 month, makes payments on a car, furniture, and to a finance company. Before the strike, he worked 8 months of the year at $1,10 an hour and his wife worked 4 months beside him. On weekends and in the summer, his children warked too. This sver- age farmworker buys food at the same stores, at the same prices, that @ rancher does. And he’s not niaking it, So now these average " workers are strikers. They have been willing to lose these cars, furni- ture, to live on beans and more beans, to work “on the line” 70 hours « weak—for the right toa living wage. Singg seasonal farmworkers are not covered by the National Labor Relatians .Act, they are denied the right to vote for representation on their joB. I do not believe that any people should be denied the right to vote on who will represent them-—on their job, in the statehouse, or in the Nation’s Capitol. Ranchers in Delano sey that the farmworkers are ha: living the way they sre—just like the southern planation owner eed to say about his Negroes. But our workers know what the Negro done io achieve a vote, and they are working for the right to vo lieving that they too will succeed. » 88 you already know, farmworkers want union recognition so badly that. on September 16 of last year, they began a strike against those employers who paid them $1.10 an hour, no overtime, and no fringe benefits. They went on strike, knowing very well that the Fed- eral Jaws which protect other striking workers would not help them. And today, 6 months later, they are still on strike. There have been many forms of harassment directed against us since the strike began— france An =O and the most important, of course, is the constant and expensive recruit- : eo Pin ment of strikebreakers by DiGiorgio and Schenley Corp. in New Mexico, Texas, and Old Mexico. I have some affidavits here that I want to present to the committee. This has the photocopies of affidavits that f mimeographed and at- tached to my statement. together with that. Senator Wintiaxs. We have these in our prepared material, right? Mr. Cuavez. Yes, you do. And I have the photocopies here. Senator Wiitraws. What do these deal with, individual incidents? Mr. Cravez. Of recruiting of strikebreakers from out of State in most cases., The recruitment is done by the DiGiorgio Fruit Corp. and Schenley Industries. Senator Wri1aus. And who are these statements fron). the strikers or those that came in? Mr, Cuavez. From those that came in who were not told that a strike was in progress at the time that they were recruited, and didn’t Know anything about the strike until they came to Delano and saw the picket line for the first time. They then left the picket line and gave us these statements. va? poo ty We have two pay slips here from the Shenley Industry Corp., that ee Me eg are statements from two of the same people that gave us the affidavits at wep atl and the recruitment. One of them is from 1 man who was recruited mee an a in Los Angeles, Viadimer Susoeff, and it shows in the statement that ar a ane he worked Sdays; and net pay for those 2 days was $5.35. pet em ae -ind then we have another statement here. It’s a pay stub. This Fe ee Pg oa is for Mr. Guadalupe Agiular who was recruited in Ealexico, but teh Meees ie ‘ actually Mr. Agiular lives in Mexicali, Mexico. He worked 7 days and netted $63. ‘