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it is that the barn that was set on fire was practically always the barn of a man who was really very rough, the barn of a farmer who really had been a little rougher than the average in his personal way of handling the people.

One had to remember that most of these were Latinblooded people. Of course, by this time some Okies and Arkies were mixed up with it too, because they were all trying to get the same kind of work.

It got to be very bad. A wave of strikes was going on. We couldn't deal with them, couldn't do anything with them at all. Our conciliators were trained, if at all, to the industrial type of employment, knew nothing about this, knew nothing about what the farmers ought to pay, or anything else, how much it cost to live. They couldn't get hold of anybody in the worker's ranks to talk business with. The farmers merely wanted the army to come out and force them back to work at the point of a gun. It was altogether very disturbing.

I had a brainstorm one night. Somebody who worked under Lubin had gone out and come back with a story that would make your hair rise as to wages and working conditions and living conditions and the way they were treated. This person had said, “It really is very dangerous because these are hot-blooded people and when they get excited and feel





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