Dominguez, Violeta

Mr. Sandoval grew up in Mexico City. He worked as a railroad line worker in Kansas, shoveling gravel on roadbeds and repairing the rails. Activities he did from 1943 to 1944.

Mr. Ortega was born in Miacatl?n, Morelos; help he received from people when trying to get a contract as a bracero; picked green tomato, lettuce, packed lettuce; worked as a bracero until 1964.

Father did not want him to work as a bracero, finally paid for a "coyote" to get his contract in Empalme, Sonora; waited for one month there and got help from an officer to finally get contracted; he picked apricots, peas, lettuce; remembers humilliating spraying with pesticides, naked in from of the female secretaries while signing contract.