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a . + 6 AMENDING MIGRATORY LABOR LAWS 365 Congressman Hacex. That would include Agiular and Susoeff, is that right? Mr. Cisavez. Particularly Agiular. : Congressman Hacex. Now, I have here a copy of the Valley Labor Citizen, which was published in Fresno, and has these same two stubs. Now, this story—and I think it was repeated in your publication El “Malcriado—refers to one of these deductions as insurance, I believe. ‘Now, J understand that this Agiular, for exam le, his deduction of $i0.6rs for board, $2.50 a day. In other words, you say he only netted 63, but he was receiving board. I don’t know the quality of it. So this particular stub has been misrepresen! Nasg,if you'll average out Agiular's pay, he made $1.76 an hour, and tink you're intending to prove that. Now, if you'll average ff’s pay, and I assume the deduction from him is also for he made $1.97 an hour. N@, in this some issue of the Valley Labor Citizen, there’s a story about a machinist getting a new contract in the Fresno area, an beginning wags rate is $1.90 an hour. ‘And Mr. Susoeff made more than the machinists got beginning under their new contract. And I’m curious about these stubs because they’ve been grossly misrepresented, and I don’t think you intentionally would do that. Mr. Cuavez. did not submit the stubs to show that they were not getting a lot of money. IT presented the stubs to show the extent of the attempts to break up the strike in Delano. As you recall, before the strike the workers were getting only an average of $1.15 per hour, and this shows way up, way more than the workers have been getting, were getting before the strike. So it proves very conclusively that the growers can afford to pay & Jot more money then they claim they can when the strike situation presents itself. Congressman Hacex. Well, you've used these stubs in a context other than your testimony here today to shew how low a net a worker ts. Now, actually these stubs demonstrate that one man averaged S136 an hour and the other averaged $1.97 an hour. Now, you don't want to engage in that kind of misrepresent ation, I’m sure. Mr. Cisavez. I'm sure that I’m not trying to misrepresent the pay slips. What I'm trying to show is the wage difference because ofa strike in Delano, and also the importation ‘of strikebreakers in this case, and what Schenley Industries have been doing in ordey.to break the strike. Congressman Faces. I don’t want to argue with you, but you men- tioned the fact that this guy only made $5 in 2 days’ work, or some- thing, or something low. Vell, in fact, he made a lot more than that. He averaged $1.97 an hour. ‘And so you're misrepresenting the stub. That’s my whole point, und I think we should be factual and truth- ful in dealing with these things. Senator Wru1s. What are the deductions for that are shown! ‘These forms are loaded with initials. Con, van Hlacex. There's a code down here. But it shows this $40.64 item if you read that, as jnsurance of some kind, but actually it’s at $2.50aday. But this stub bas bean publicized all over the State of California as representing the low net that a farmworker gets