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| Keywords: "San Joaquin Valley, California - Contract Labor - This scene is near the camp of a labor contractor" - NARA - 532158.tif Scope and content San Joaquin Valley California Contract Labor This scene is near the camp of a labor contractor The labor of the young agricultural worker is contracted but their spare time is wasted Living in the contractor's camp paying the contractor for his tent and camping facilities in deductions from their pay the young migratory agricultural worker becomes a commodity which the contrcator sells to the highest bidder among the small farmers anxxious to produce extra labor with which to harvest their crops These pictures were taken in the vicinity of a Copus Camp which is a labor contractor operating in a number of California crop centers and in Idaho Utah and Colorado Only those workers who have been issued Copus Crew buttons identifying themselves as paying guests of the Copus Camp they rent tents and ground space are entitled to employment in a Copus contracted field But the possession of a button is not assurance of immediate work Arriving at the scene of work promised by the contracto General notes 532158 Local identifier 119-CAL-100 Federal Security Agency National Youth Administration 07/01/1939 - 09/17/1942 NARA-Author Partridge Rondal 1917- Photographer 8464464 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1940-04-09 Record group Record Group 119 Records of the National Youth Administration 1934 - 1945 Record group ARC 448 Study of Youth Photographs compiled 1940 - 1940 Series ARC 532065 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-119-CAL-100 yes Other versions NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Rondal Partridge San Joaquin Valley | ||||