Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10

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INTERVIEW: Francisco Solario Page 35 FS: expect for them to sometime like we say, I think the unions is going a little over board. Some of them are, but it's nice to make more money then----but what's the use of making money when we have to pay it out, again. In other things, when everything goes up. And---that's the way I think. But the company ah----to me, the company's been all right. And, like we say, I guess, some of the bosses have different opinions on them. FO: Mr. Solario, you ah, you've raised a family here, ah----and obviously you have a good life, ah---what are your thoughts about being a man from Mexico doing it here? Has it, has it been harder for you, do you think, than for other men because you are Mexican, rather than someone who is born into a culture that spoke English and lived here? Do you have any thoughts about it? Have you been discriminated against? FS: Well, yes. In ways we have been discriminated that has been rather, at a lot of times. Just like in a farm from, like I told you. During the depression, they kicked us out of the farms----all the Mexicans wasn't allowed to work in fields because we were taking the jobs away. And there's been lot of times, too, that I had a opportunity to advance. But it's still that----discrimination. And then there's---beings