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To Henry P. Anderson, April 2, 1958 Anderson was a graduate student at the School of Public health at UC Berkeley, where he was studying the Bracero Program under a grant from the National Institutes of Health. The result of this research was The Bracero Program in California, with Particular Reference to Health Status, Attitudes, and Practices (Berkeley: School of Public Health, University of California, 1961), which exposed a world of cruelty, corruption, and exploitation under the guise of the bracero system. Grower associations eventually pressured the university to terminate Anderson’s research. Galarza then recruited Anderson to the farm worker labor movement and mentored him in action research. April 2, 1958 Dear friend, Renner is changing homes just now, also considering the possibility of going into business in Mexico. I expect to see him in the next two weeks in Stockton and will ask him to get in touch with you. I did receive the 100 pages you sent and thought I had promptly acknowledged it. Sorry. It is a very useful job. I hope it will be properly released sometime. It is true that the growers have been considering an about face on PL 78 and a plan to use the immigration law on a large scale. In fact they have been experimenting with it recently. There is a division of opinion on this policy among the associations. I have a hunch one of the reasons they want to scuttle the law is that they hope thus to avoid a searching investigation of past practices. On your questions: • I don’t know of any democratic organization that has taken a forthright stand on the foreign contract labor issue other than the Contra Costa central committee, I believe. No one of any state standing has spoken out. I would be interested in your friend[’]s decision on this point. He might want to see the last of our “knight letters”. I believe I sent you the previous two. 266 part 6. letters from an activist • Every print of the DiGirogio film that I know of has been destroyed. There may be one in Washington. I’ll inquire and let you know it may take a little time. There are no prints that I know of in California. • I have had no reliable information on PL 78 hearings. I get the impression that Congressman Saund is in a stalemate in the House Agricultural Committee and that the House Labor Committee is still marking time over protocol. If the hearings are called in connection with the Saund bill I would be little interested. We are demanding an investigation rather than a hearing. If in your travels you happen to pick up any recent individual work contracts— (the wage sheet rather than the printed text) I would appreciate the loan of them for photocopying. We are pursuing a wage analysis for which we need the wage data from the contracts. The situation of the bracero asparagus cutters on the “islands” would interest you from a health standpoint. Yesterday I saw crews of them cutting grass in flooded fields without rain gear, pants legs rolled up. Best wishes, E Galarza ...

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