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The Wetback Game: El Juego De Los Mojadas/Os
The Wetback Game: El Juego De Los Mojadas/Os
United States Government
Article highlights the efforts of growers to employee individuals who had no legal status in the United States to reduce their overall cost. It explains that foreman would warn undocumented migrant workers when the border patrol was their to arrest/deport them. Raids in the fields was a common occurrence. Growers would hire undocumented individuals, pay them wages far below the poverty line and further exploit them through horrifying living conditions. Growers engaged in such practices to avoid paying individuals fair wages and negotiate contracts that would overall help farm workers.
Farm Workers Evicted For Revealing Wasco Slum Conditions & Scientists Warn Of Permanent Pesticide Effects: Trabajadores Agrícolas Desalojados Por Revelar Las Condiciones De Los Barrios Marginales De Wasco Y Los Científicos Advierten Sobre Los Efectos Permanentes De Los Pesticidas
United States Government
Farm workers who worked in Wasco Labor Camps where evicted for allowing reporters to witness the inhuman and unsanitary conditions that they lived under. The article on the right focuses on the harmful effects of DDT and pesticides. Workers, organizations sought to regulate the use of DDT. Also included on the right is an article focused on gathering support for United Farm Workers Organizing Committee boycott. The page on the right focused on the issues surrounding the sainitation of produce.