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Show MEXICANS AND U. S. LABORERS IN CONTRAST Vivid Picture of Living Conditions Presented to Railroad Board CHICAGO April 13 A vivid picture pic-ture contrasting living conditions of Blexican laborers and American rall-I rall-I road workers in Denver. Colo, was drawn b I I Weippert. section foreman fore-man and his wife, Minnie, before the railroad labor board her' Wed nesdav. Weippert said he and his wife and two children lived in a box COT in the railroad yards because they couldn't afford to rent a house Not, far awlay on the city dumps, until their shacks were burned down by the city, lied several thousand Mexican laborei s he said "They're all rubbish they never wrih They makf a lo: of money and go back to Mexico to have a gool time on it " the witness said 1 Five or six families crowd together In a four-room house They eat hardly I anything, and they're poor workers I fl rather have one American than t hree Mexicans ' I Working every day in the year Weippert testified thai he ould only I make $119.20 a month, ami that despite de-spite economy, ho was now $300 in deb;. Mrs. Weippert said she was try-in try-in to Mv- her child r en an education and even sending them to Sunday school "required pennies, sometimes nickels." oo |