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384 AMENDING MIGRATORY LABOR LAWS too. The next morning, In the field, we saw the roving picket line for the first time. Then we understood that we were working in a strike area, but since we ‘had no money to leave, we had to stay and work. . In Calexico, Pablo Rodriguer promised us nine hours of work, dally. We worked four and a balf days. Saturday they paid us two of the days belong to last weck, and they still owe us for the other days. We have given our at- torney, Alexander P. Hoffman, the authorization to collect for us and then to send the checks to us, to our homes. * We need to work so we're moving on to Oxnard, California. If we had known there was a strike in the grapes in Delano, if we had been told in Calexico before ‘We got on the bus, we would not have come here. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on February 7, 1966 in Delano, California. Jesus Suares, Lore Prcextex, Pepeo VILLANUEvA. ~ DectaRation or 4 SCHENLEY WoRERE (Declaration of Jose Martines) My m@me ts Jose Martine, The address of my home is Rancho Foothill in Coroni lifornle. Ta in Delano on about January 18 with a group of 27 men. We had all deen hired in Calexico by 2 man we did not get to know; we didn’t even know who the bus driver was, because although he was « Mexican, after leaving us at the Schenley camp on road #192, he left. We found out there was work “to one side of Delano” because some men arrived in Calexico with some signs gunguncing work In the grape vine pruning. They told us that it was piece work, buclpen we began to work we found out after ianch that the work was by the hou ($1.30 an bour plus $1.50 a row). This happened when they brought us the Papers to sign; the contract also said that we had to pay for the pruning shears {they had not told us this in Calexico) and that they would also charge us $2.50 a day for board. I worked eight and a half days. I found out about the strike on my second day of work, but as I did not have enough money to move on, I bad to work a few days. The foreman, Pablo Vargas, told us In the field when the strikers arrived (and they came almost every day) not to pay attention to them, to go way into the field where we couldn't hear them. He said that in any case, they were not going to win the strike. The fault that many people have come to scab belongs to the hiring bosses of Schenley who do not inform the people about what is happening here. Yesterday (January 28) when we went to claim our checks, they did not want to give us our time. With us were Mr. Alex Hoffmann, the lawyer of the Farm Workers’ Association, and Mr. Roberto Bustos, a member of the Associa- Mion and a striker. When ther refused to pay us, the lawyer complained and the cashiers (pagadores) invited him into the office. Immediately we heard Doines coming from inside and when we got close to the office door, we saw various Schenley employees becin to push and shove Mr. Hoffmann and to,shout at him in English to get out. They threw him out and shut the door jn his face. Today we returned to the same camp, to the same pay office, and they gave us our checks. I swear under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on January 29, 1966 at Delano, California. Jose BMarrives, Sra’ or Viapices Sosorrr, REsiDENT or Los ANGELES, GIVEN TO N.F.W.A. Starr on Janvazy 27, 1966 I came up to Delano when a friend of mine came down to Norwalk and got me and said we should come up to get some work. My friend looked up a man in Delano ag the United Cafe. This man, whose name we didn't know, took us to a camp Where he said we could get work. He didn't tell us there was a strike here. My friend is disabled now. so he just left me there to work. He introduced us to Mike Baca: Baca gave me a job and a room. Mike Baca said be would pay me $1.30 an hour and $1.00 a row; he charged $2.50 a day for room and board. The pruning shears cost me $5.00. Everybody was dissatisfied