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Letter from Alonso S. Perales to Watson Miller, 1947 November 24

Date: November 24, 1947

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Creator	Perales, Alonso S.
Subject	Labor policy Mexican Americans Political activists Miller, Watson
Place	El Paso, Texas
Genre	correspondence letters (correspondence)
Type	Text
Language	English
Provenance	Hispanic Research Collection Alonso S. Perales Papers University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

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Title	Letter from Alonso S. Perales to Watson Miller, 1947 November 24
Creator	Perales, Alonso S.
Date	1947-11-24
Language	English
Description	Typewritten letter, carbon copy, by Alonso S. Perales as Director General of the League of Loyal Americans, to Watson Miller, Commissioner of Immigration in El Paso. In light of a labor conference being held between the United States and Mexico, Perales discusses the availability of workers, but not for the wage of “twenty-five or thirty-five cents per hour due to the high cost of living.” He argues agricultural workers should be paid “a minimum of sixty cents per hour in order to subsist.”
Subject	Labor policy Mexican Americans Political activists Miller, Watson
Place	El Paso, Texas
Genre	correspondence letters (correspondence)
Type	Text
Provenance	Hispanic Research Collection Alonso S. Perales Papers University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Archival Location	2010-002, Box 2, Folder 7, Item 9
Rights	In Copyright
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Digital Object ARK	ark:/84475/do50515p39r