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Many a state now has soil-conservation laws that permit authorities to "list" or "chisel" the uncared-for land and tax its owner for the expense. All over the plains last week the fight against soil erosion was going on. But such work-and particularly the job of getting grass back on thin, bad soil-would take time. Only soaking rains could guarantee an end to the blowing plumes of dust...
...agreement too. They had come to consider the wetbacks as a cheap, natural resource, as rightfully theirs as rain or good soil. Forced to choose between lawbreaking or paying legally imported Mexican "Nationalists" a fair wage, many farmers chose, without hesitation, to break the law. After all, wetbacks would work-and are working-for as little as 20? an hour, a wage comparable to that skilled labor receives in Mexico.They do not argue, do not agitate, do not complain; if they do, they can always be turned in as border jumpers. Farmers have built good barracks for some, but others...
...Communists noted the magnifier at work-and gloated...
...observed that Negroes will flock to work-and work just as hard-for a farmer who is known to be unfair and cruel as for a kind and honest one. His explanation: almost every Negro suspects in his heart that all white men are alike, that all will rob and deceive him, no matter what their conduct seems...
Officers of the plant's United Auto Workers local quickly called an emergency meeting. They denounced the committee of vigilantes for using "lynch law." After two turbulent hours, the local voted to return to work-and to allow the three suspected workmen to return too. But the back-to-work resolution carried the proviso that those who wanted to file charges against the three "for conduct unbecoming union members" could...