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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...
...relocated"a euphemism for merging them with the nearest bigger church. ¶ The major denominations are cutting off funds for church building in areas that are already overchurched. ¶ The National Council is taking over the work of the denominations in dealing with the 2,500,000 agricultural migrant workers who have no fixed churches at all. Churches already operate "harvesters"-station wagons or trailers equipped with everything from baseball bats to portable organs and altars...
SOCIAL SECURITY may not be far off. The House Ways & Means Committee voted to extend compulsory coverage to self-employed professional people, farmers, state and local government employees, etc., thus bring all but about 2,600,000 migrant farm workers, the armed forces and civil-service workers under the social security system...
...citizens of the Redland district the whole deal was an outrage. The migrant children, they insisted, were not only dirty, they also tended to slow the other pupils down. When Principal Joseph L. Logan refused to put them out_ the parents began a boycott. By last week 470 white children were staying at home...
...summer migrant from the big city, Geologist Bill Willis has enough sense to make pals of Uncle Veenie and Ezra Cobb. One result of this is that Ezra never steals from the Willises. The fact is that "Captain" Cobb never was a captain; he lives by petty thievery and renting out a couple of leaky boats to mainland innocents...