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Baum: 



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Baum: 



— well, everything was in detail, beginning with the 

 minute that they came to see me. This was all learned 

 from the United States government. 



Would the pickers come to you if there was somebody in 

 their ranks that was agitating for a strike? 

 I asked them to do that and they promised me to do that, 

 and apparently there was none of that. Apparently this 

 method frightened agitators out. The agitators knew I 

 was in control because I had no problems of any kind* 

 So nobody reported to you an agitator because probably 

 the agitator was afraid -*- 



He was afraid to come in. Oh, I saw a couple of fellows 

 that I knew quite well, they were labor organizers, they 

 had organized other different branches of labor; I saw 

 a couple of fellows from Martinez* They came in there 

 but they couldn't get a foothold because everybody was 

 happy. All the workers were happy and there was no 

 dissension. You see, when the workers are unhappy 

 then an organizer can come in and he can organize them 

 very easily. But if they were happy, they knew they 

 were getting a square deal, then this couldn't apply. 

 I did notice on your work schedules that you did say 



