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...Last refuge of the Egyptian leopard, and nesting gounds of great flocks of migrant and year-round waterfowl...
Died. William Henry Jackson, 99, pioneer photographer of the West; of complications following a fall; in Manhattan. At 22, a Civil War veteran who had fought with the Army of the Potomac, he escorted migrant Mormons over the Oregon Trail, drove a mule train over the Rockies, rode herd on 300 mustangs bound from Sacramento to Omaha. He photographed the building of the Union Pacific, the boom days of Cripple Creek and Leadville, made camera records of the Indians and frontiersmen of the Wyoming Territory, gave stay-at-home Easterners their first graphic pictures of the West...
Sore-muscled Idahoans looked longingly toward California, where migrant Mexicans, Koreans and Filipinos who used to come to Idaho are staying contentedly on good pay, doing less back-breaking work, filling the Nisei's jobs...
...Farm Credit Administration) explains itself; FSA (Farm Security Ad ministration) aids tenant farmers, sharecroppers, migrant farm labor. Another FSA (Federal Security Administration) administers social security, public health, etc. Chief is Paul V. McNutt...
...years, almost since welding became a major tool of modern construction, welders have had peculiar troubles. They are generally migrant workers. The A.F. of L. has never granted them an autonomous union. They have been forced to join whatever A.F. of L. union had jurisdiction over the job they happened to be working...