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...sidestepped California's hottest state issue: repeal of the Rumford Act against racial discrimination in housing (TIME, Sept. 25). In agricultural areas, Murphy wins votes for his stand favoring the bracero program, under which fruit and vegetable farmers hire immigrant labor from Mexico. "You have to remember," explains Murphy, "that Americans can't do that kind of work. It's too hard. Mexicans are really good at that. They are built low to the ground, you see, so it is easier for them to stoop...
Last month the organizers struck their first ranch, demanded pay hikes from 90? to $1.25 an hour. They quickly struck 14 other ranches, and, in hopes of getting the Mexicans sent home, claimed that the braceros were strike breakers. Farmers refused to give in, contended that the real objective of the A.W.O.C. was to destroy the whole bracero program. The A.W.O.C. does not deny the charge, says that if farm wage levels were raised enough, there would be an adequate supply of domestic farm workers...
Flying Squads. Last week some 300 union sympathizers, carrying signs in Spanish, BRACERO, PIDE TU LIBERTAD, staged a sitdown demonstration in front of one bracero camp to prevent the workers from going to the fields. At another camp, 38 pickets beat up the camp cook and two braceros with broom handles, threatened to set fire to the camp. The melee was broken up by a flying squad from the sheriff's office, which later stormed into a meeting at union headquarters and arrested six union leaders. Armed with shotguns and pistols, growers prowled their fields on the lookout...
Calluses & Quotas. Serrano had no thought of becoming a wetback, a border-jumper. Instead, he wanted to be a bracero, a legal farm worker entitled to full protection of U.S. laws under the U.S.Mexican Migrant Labor Agreement. Of the two required qualifications, one came naturally for Serrano: callused hands to prove that he was a genuine farm worker...
...also has works by less famed painters, and in some of their pictures New Mexico comes to life with surprising sharpness. Among the standouts: Ernest Blumenschein's Downtown Albuquerque, a view of rooftops and buildings from a hotel window; Kenneth Barrick's Motherless Child, a dimly glimpsed bracero woman carrying a child through a sandstorm...