Word: wetbacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heard dazzling tales of the wonders and luxuries to be had in los Estados Unidos-canned chicken soup, pink nylon panties to be taken home to wives and girl friends, sweet paste (wonder of wonders) for scrubbing the teeth, and the little brush to squirt it on. Many a wetback, returning to a small Mexican village, has been hailed as a hero, and has been trailed by every able-bodied man in town when he started north on a new expedition...
Last week the illegal wetback labor system did not lack for critics: many a citizen of the states involved not only cried, "Shame!" at a condition which savored of slavery, but protested that the low-paid laborers were working the economic ruin of dozens of farming towns. In the Imperial Valley, 34-year-old Hank Hasiwar, organizer for the National Farm Labor Union, was not only agitating among the wetbacks (who, however, cannot become union members) and protesting to Congress, but also trying to unite merchants and businessmen against the system...