Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 2, numbers 11 through 20

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INTERVIEW: Emilio Jaime Vasquez Page 28 EV: They didn't seem to care---1 guess it didn't bother them, but then their, when their kids, they're hired up there, why, they'd didn't think that was fair. They didn't want to work on the tracks for twenty or forty years, like they did. So they start trying get the company to change their ways by joining the different unions and fight this thing. So after they kind of established a better, with the company, then we had all these guys from New Mexico that come in, see, and here we had guys already come in from New Mexico that were a little bit educated, you'd say, and could read or write English,. and after these guys here fought for--­better--- better working conditions, and these guys, they'd come and they moved right in, and us Mexicans would---you'd say, you know _________ surely got the, got the better jobs. And of course ah, we've left them alone. The old-timers have---have left them alone, and they just let them go about their own business. VM: Talking to some of the other Mexicans, especially the ones from Mexico who have been here since, oh, the twenties. They, they've spoken of certain of the obvious differences, they say. They say it's obvious between old Mexican from Olcl Mrxico nncl M('x icnnf; from Color11do. And lhoy'<l p111: 1,1: in terms how they conduct themselves, you know, both in speech