Manifesto
mdigenakis
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Mexican Workers Organize, 1928. Exerpts from "Mexicans in Cailifornia: Report of Governor C.C. Young's Fact Finding Committee, pp. 124 - 26.
On January9, 1928, the Central Committee of the Confederation of Mexican Labor Unions issued a manifesto setting forth principles...and inviting all Mexican societies and unorganized Mexican laborers to attend...this manifesto describes the philosophy, aspirations, and purposes of the movement......and so that it will not be supposed that the movement in question is harmful, the active group makes known its fundamental principles....
1. To organize all Mexican workers in the U.S. in unions according to sindical principles.
2. To establish a solid pact with the American and Mexican working men that any difficulty in the future may be solved mutually.
3. (Read Carefully -mdigenakis note) To establish likewise solid relations with the organized Labor of Mexico (Confederacion Regional Obrera Mexicana) and to try to stop the immigration of unorganized labor into the U.S. which is harmful to working men of both countries.
4. To do away with the exploitation of ... Mexican victims in the so called employmeny agencies, (think guest - worker) and to get the unions to constitute their own employment department...
5. To constitute provision offices withh the exclusive object of illustrating to mexican laborers who for the first time come to the U.S. as well as to those who already reside here, all that is referent to working systems, job revenues, contract, forms, interpretations, translations from English to spanish or vice - versa....
6. To keep Mexican Laborers from being exploited in the so - called commissary stores that still exist in some regions of the U.S. by substituting in their place cooperative stores....
7. To study and resolve in accord with the Mexican government the best systems of repatriation so that those wishing to go back will form agricultural cooperatives....
8. Negotiate with the Mexican government so that the immigration of Mexican labor into the U.S. may be regulated.
I thought the above manifesto was fair. The farmers didn't and it was crushed by the farm lobby (literally). This would make a good immigration bill ( a start at least), yet nothing like this is being considered.
What do you think?
On January9, 1928, the Central Committee of the Confederation of Mexican Labor Unions issued a manifesto setting forth principles...and inviting all Mexican societies and unorganized Mexican laborers to attend...this manifesto describes the philosophy, aspirations, and purposes of the movement......and so that it will not be supposed that the movement in question is harmful, the active group makes known its fundamental principles....
1. To organize all Mexican workers in the U.S. in unions according to sindical principles.
2. To establish a solid pact with the American and Mexican working men that any difficulty in the future may be solved mutually.
3. (Read Carefully -mdigenakis note) To establish likewise solid relations with the organized Labor of Mexico (Confederacion Regional Obrera Mexicana) and to try to stop the immigration of unorganized labor into the U.S. which is harmful to working men of both countries.
4. To do away with the exploitation of ... Mexican victims in the so called employmeny agencies, (think guest - worker) and to get the unions to constitute their own employment department...
5. To constitute provision offices withh the exclusive object of illustrating to mexican laborers who for the first time come to the U.S. as well as to those who already reside here, all that is referent to working systems, job revenues, contract, forms, interpretations, translations from English to spanish or vice - versa....
6. To keep Mexican Laborers from being exploited in the so - called commissary stores that still exist in some regions of the U.S. by substituting in their place cooperative stores....
7. To study and resolve in accord with the Mexican government the best systems of repatriation so that those wishing to go back will form agricultural cooperatives....
8. Negotiate with the Mexican government so that the immigration of Mexican labor into the U.S. may be regulated.
I thought the above manifesto was fair. The farmers didn't and it was crushed by the farm lobby (literally). This would make a good immigration bill ( a start at least), yet nothing like this is being considered.
What do you think?
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