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THE LAFOLLETTE COMMITTEE HEARINGS, 1939 





Baum* The LaFollette committee hearings were in 1939, in 

 San Francisco. 



Millers That's right. Apparently some group — - I know the 

 name of it now but I can't remember — complained 

 because they weren't in control of the situation and 

 they wanted to be in control of it, and apparently 

 they were striving to make some unrest. Of course, 

 Senator LaFollette in those days was taking the side 

 of the working man and I'm sure it was the working 

 group that was dissatisfied up at the top — not the 



pickers themselves, because there was no trouble 



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there, but somebody who under the circumstances 

 could not come in here and organize those workers 

 because they were satisfied. This was as far as I 

 could understand it at that time. 

 Baum: This was not particularly for your area but for the 



state of California? 



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Millers I don't know all that. I know that I was a central 



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