Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 13, numbers 135 through 146

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INTERVIEW: Lujan Page 17 DL: busy just about any time the weather permitted it. Then during the school year, of course, outside of what we missed for harvest and Christmas stuff like that, we made our money going out to the mile high turkey farms. Picked turkeys and this kind of situation. Here is another time you noticed discrimination. There were a lot of guys looking for work, but if you were Anglo they would usually give you a job right away picking turkeys and if you weren't take your turn. GC: Was this during the depression? DL: Well, no, this is already at the beginning ... the depression is relative ... it all depends who is where, but for most people it was already the turn of the depression. It was just beginning to turn ... for us, it hadn't gone very far. In my senior year in high school I went throughout the whole year with one pair of pants. I remember it was a pair of grey corduroies. And we bought them during the summer and my mother would not wash them. She said we had to wear them to school and take them off, wear them to school and take them off, we couldn't, because she felt that if we washed them it would wear them out. Fortunately in those days it became a style, like now the hippies are dirty, well, we used to wear dirty corduroies that was the style for awhile there. But I remembff right before the year was over, mom washed those corduroies and they looked like a different pair. Not only were they almost gone, cloth and everything almost