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Baurn; unrest? 



Miller: No danger whatever. Apricots are a very volatile 

 crop. They have to be picked when they have to be 

 picked; if they don't they're lost, so if they aren't 

 picked the worker loses his wages and the farmer loses 

 his money. 



Baum: You can't afford to lose any time at all. I guess 

 walnuts are a little bit slower. 



Miller: I never had any trouble with walnuts, I never had any 

 trouble with pears, I never had any trouble with any 

 other fruit but the apricots. You see, walnuts can 

 be gathered one day or the next, and so can hay, but 

 apricots, today they're ready, tomorrow they turn 

 black. They have to come off. And the agitators 

 knew that. So the agitators are the ones who thought 

 they had these people by the nape of the neck, and I 

 proved to them that I had them all by the nape of 

 the neck. This was a very interesting thing to me. 



Baum: Those farmers are a pretty independent lot. Did they 

 resent the fact that you had control of the situation? 



Miller: Oh, yes, they did. I made good people out of them 



and I cured them of sucking eggs very, very important- 

 ly, and after it was all finished — when I was through 



