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OHI E&G Aguayo 3-4-85 s3:18 where we were at, the patrol works outfit, it's - a lot of them were ,maybe, -- I usedto meet some people, they'd say, how can you do that, you'd be out there all by yourself. I'd say, yeah, but all you've got to do is hide. You know. It's just the nea when there's a few, you can hide sort of - sort of blend in. Stick around alittle bit. And when there's a whole bunch of you, and you can't hide - everyone knows you're coming. L Thank you for what you·· said before. It was very moving. You're a kind man. You mentioned last time about women who were working. That was very intesresting. Thev-D:men .who were working in Bingham. When didyou become aware that women were being hired to work. EA Well, because firstof all, a good friend of my mother got a a job. She was comadre, which I explained before, 1bey baptize a child there. It's a term of endearment, is that what .you say. AndY8~e comadre and compadre, you know, you never address them again with their proper name, it's just not done. --She happend to be a comadre of my mother's and she had children who were our age. And all of a sudden they were saying that she was going to go work for Kennecott. And this was about the first time that I was quite aware of it that women were. And then we had another lady that lived down the tracks, she was a Mexcian lady too. And it's kind of funny becuase she was a little fat little lady and it was often wondered how in the world she was going to work. But Kennecott was paying good wages. And , b y the n, you h a d a 1 o lot of American g-womenthat were working. But your Mexican women n't. were quite getting into that yet until these two that r said --