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Miller: opened up a temporary office in Brentwood. I there 



and then asked all the potential pickers who expected 

 to be ready when the picking season came, somewhere 

 around the Fourth of July, to come into my office 

 and register. I told them that I had seen to it 

 that wages were increased from 200 to 400 an hour. 

 I asked tnem to register here with me and I gave 

 them a card, and asked them, Please, if they weren't 

 satisfied with the conditions, to come to me first 

 and not to strike. Then I would try to straighten 

 out the situation for them. I did give them a card, 

 I registered them, and unless they had such a card 

 and had passed this examination by me, they couldn't 

 get a job. 



Baum: This was an agreement between you and the farmers? 



Miller: This was an agreement that I would register them, I 

 would look over the type of people, and that I would 

 give them a card which entitled them to go to work, 

 and they did. 



At this critical time I set up unknown to any- 

 body but myself a subsidized shooting gallery and I 

 put it in the city of Brentwood at my own expense. 



