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Labor contractor, growers, and corporations took part in hiring undocumented individuals at lower wages and under inhumane working and living conditions. Such actions undermined the efforts of the United Farm Workers union, farm workers and their supporters striving for better working conditions. Growers and labor contractors participated in numerous of illegal activities. Their illegal actions resulted in the murder of Mexican undocumented farm workers and the further exploitation of hundreds.

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Undocumented, deaths, Mexican, Farm Workers, growers, contractors, cheap labor, Immigration Service officials, Immigration, union, federal government, United States Congress, citizens, strikers, food assistance, food stamps, wages, Alabama Republican William L. Dickson, Senate, hunger strike, Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz, legislature, bills, Food for Peace Program, California, AFL-CIO, Senator George Zenovich, labor bill, Bill AB 2304, Senator Fred W. Marler, killed, RFK, Calexico, Salinas Valley, Fresno, Kern, Delano, Senate Committee, Orange Grieve, Texas, Federal Grand jury, criminal trial

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1973

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English

Location

California

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El Malcriado Newspaper Collection

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Archives & Special Collections of California State University, Monterey Bay

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