Show LABOR TROUBLE lf lOOMS ON COAST BRAWLEY Cal Cat May 9 CAP AP AF Agents whom the workers describe as labor ml middlemen may lose their slice of the profits from the ImperIal Imperial Imperial Impe Impe- rial valley vaney melon After Arter a labor skirmish which threatened to o tie up the valley galley cantaloupe cantaloupe cantaloupe cant cant- harvest Ramon Mireles 1 president of the Association of ot Mexican MexIcan Mexican Mex Mex- ican Laborers of the Imperial Valley Val Val- Icy ley declared at a mass meeting here last night that night that an agreement as was being negotiated with the growers and shippers The Issue he said was as not an increase in the amount paid b by bythe bythe the growers and shippers for melon picking but rather the elimination of Japanese and Hindus who wh he ho said came into the valley vaney each year and contra contracted ted the work The rhe lab labor leader declared that a a. fixed price of 15 cents a cr crate te had b been en paid by the producers but that only apart a apart part of ot that sum had rc reached the laborers Many workers left the fields yeste yes yes' es te day and a dozen were arrested after acter a clash at one ranch Handbills Hand bills called upon the workers worker's to act while othe other unsigned posters warned them that in event of trouble the they would be deported deported- |