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AMENDING MIGRATORY LABOR LAWS i] rents and hope my sun gets out of farm work. Well. I am not ready to bewtites of asa Tove, and farm work could be a decent job for my son with A union. But the point ix that this generation of farm labor clildren will not get an adequate eduration until their parents earn enough to care for the ebild the way they want to and the way the other children in school—the ones who sacceed—are cared for. Some other people keep taiking abort the Migrant Master Plan. Give every migrant a free tent to live in for three weeks of Ube year, and you bave taken a giant atep. This js not true and an inault to the worker. This and many other poverty programs will sot solve the poverty problem. The only way is throngh he uniou, and gentlemen. we have the onion. Organizing bas now Passed the polnt of ng return, We are out to win in Delano and we will fight for every farm worker in America. It may well reach the atage of becoming a general strike of farm workers this summer. In some Selds far away from Delano, the workers have practised already. They shout HUELGA loudly in unison and the wares automat: ime. This is good practice for what is com- ing. The workers are now ready to organise, with or without the protec tion of the Ww. We have the will and the spirit and the men and women to solve our lem. We still remember the Mexican Revolution and our Filipino brothers ber Bataan-Corregidor and their victory for independence. Alt we ant fh the government is machinery—eome Tules of the game. All wo need demand is very simple: we want equality. We do not want or need special treat- went unless you abandon the idea that we are equal men. My home is in Utuado, Puerto Rico. My family is in Puerto Rico. I have to the United States 21 times to work either in the fields or in factory work. ‘fhis was my drst trip to California. 1 came to California last February, in an airplane directiy to Santa Maria, California, We had to work for Martinez, a contractor in Santa Maria, for five months ia order to earn free transportation to Santa Maria. I stayed’ there the five months, and then went to Guadalupe and lived and worked there. ‘This guy named Andy from Detano came to Santa Maria this week ond started telling everybouy to come to Delano to work. 1 beurd from some gusx who bad heard from this man to come. So I talked to this guy, Andy, in Martinez’ Care, Thia guy. Andy, was Paying a friend of bis in Santa Maria 5C cents a head to Delp round up people to come to Delano. Andy told me the work In Delano was ral sae and he would pay $1.40 an hour and $1.50 a row bonus. So I told him ould come. We came eight of us in a covered truck. We elgt of ag but they did not pay what they pro ing, we bad gn argument and we left the camp the union and Cesar Chaves, Before J came, neither Andy nor anyone else told me that there was a strike here and I did nor Personally know that there Was a strike until after I was, working in the flelds in Delano, : stayed at California Camp, the mised to pay. The second marr. and later we met the people from Dreco Conrra-Moxtero, 24 years. Utuado, Puerto Rico. (Selective Service 33-71-41-436). Starement or Jesus Svsgez, Lurs PIMENTEL, ayn Pepao VILLANEUTA J, Jesus Suarez declare that . I, Luis Pimentel declare that I, Pedro Villanueva declare that: We arrived in Delano on January 31, 1968. We came from Calerico, where x bos parked next to the sidewalk. The driver of the bus, Pablo Rodrigues, who had come from Delano to Dick up men, was telling everybody abont the work in Delano. He turned out to be the brother of the contractor Juan (Jobnny) Rodrignes, who was im charge of Caratan's #2 camp where they brought us to stay. In the evening when we arrived at the camp, Juan Rodrigues, started handing Us sheets of peper to sign, telling us one was a work contract; another, an anti- ‘union (contracto en contra de la hnelga} contract. We didn't understand what the papera were reslily alt about, but since everybody else was signing, we signed