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384 AMENDING MIGRATORY LABOR LAWS too. The next morning, ln the field, we saw the roving picket line for the frst time. Then we understood that we were working in a strike aren, but since we had no money to leave, we had to stay and work. : In Calexico, Pablo Rodriguez promised us nine hours of work, daliy. We worked four and a half days. Saturday they paid ug tio of the days belong to last weck, and they still owe us for the other days, We hare given our at- wT a ee nk mee he = one DB torney, Alexander P. Hoffman, the sutherization to collect for us and then te send the checks to us, to our homes. * We need to work s¢ 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, . go . Jesus Suares, - . Lore PIMENTEL, Proro Villanueva. * DECLARATION OF 4 SCHENLEY WOREER aa (Declaration of Jose Martines) My mime fs Jose Martinez, The sddresag of my home is Rancho Foothil tn Coron: lifornie. Ta in Delano on about January 18 with a group of 27 men. We had all been hired in Calexico by « man we did not get to know; we didn't even know who the bus driver was, because although he was a Mexican, after leaving us at the Schenley camp on road #192, be left. We found out there was work “to one aide of Delano” because some men arrived in Calexico with some simne Baten work in the grape vine pruning. They told us that it was piece work, t but @vhen we began to work we found out after janch that the work was by the hous ($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 afew days. The foreman, Pablo Vargas, told us ln the feld when the strikers arrived (and they came almost every day) not to Pay attention to them, to go way into the feild 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. i‘ Yesterday (January 28) when we went to claim our checks, they did not want ta give us our time. With us were Mr. Alex Hoffmann, the lav ver of the Farto Workers’ Asaociation, and Mr. Roberto Bustos, a member of the Associa- tion and a striker. When ther refused to pay us. the lawyer complained and . oe the cashiers (pagadores) invited him inte the office. Immediately we heard , Doises coming from inside and when we got clase to the nffica 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 in 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. 7. JOSE KIAETINES Stara or VLapiiess Scscerr, Restpeyt or Los ANGELES, GIVEN TO N.F.W.A. 3 Starr on Janvakt 27, 1968 4 ; . “ 4 I came up to Delano when a friend of mine came down to Norwalk and got : ine and said we ahould come up to get some work. My friend looked up a man ae in Delano at the United Cafe. This man, whose same we didn’t know, took us => to a camp Where he sald we couid get work. He didn’t tell us there was a 4 v3 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 ’ he would pay me $1.30 an hour and $1.00 a row: he charged $2.50 a day for = % room and board. The pruning shesrs cost me $5.00. Everybody was dissatisfied we ee . ia - or ied re — eS ee SD BN ati oy Are <ampee ee ae > a }