Garner recognized this fact in his testimony before a Senate committee in 1928. when he said: "The seasonal Mexicans in our territory do a kind of labor that no others are willing to do * * *. I can mention two counties down there on the border that have increased in taxing value in the past two decades from $3.000.000 to $88.000.000. That increase would not have been brought about if we had had an immigration quota to apply to Mexico." My point is that we should do the decent thing. the American thing. . This contribution of the Mexican workers. however. has produced nothing but unfairlabor practices. It has not protected them from a type of economic discrimination which falls into four main classifications: (1) refusal of employment. (2) withholding. of opportunities. (3) refusal of promotions according to seniority and ability. and (4) payment of lower wages for the same work as performed by AngloAmericans.
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