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Bieing and out of work carpenter , I recently called to apply for a job in the Mdison Co News Paper Want Ads.
The Ad was titled Carpenters and Nail drivers wanted ,out of state work the number was 706-654-8746 . I didnt get the mans name .
I had noticed the ad in the paper for some time.
I had tried to reach this number before and got no anwser . Being in dier straights and needing work badly to help keep my familiy
fed and in our home, I thought I would try again. I actually had someone anwser the phone this time and I engaged in conversation
to determine what the job was ,if they still needed help. I ask where the job was . I was told it was in Texas .
I begain to ask about compinsation . Pay , housing ,travel or perdeum. The man told me 10 to 15 dollars and hour depending on experience.
The he told me he really only needed nail drives with no skill who didnt have to think about anything but driving nails and framing the houses.
So far so good right.

I figured it would be 10 bucks an hour being that he didn't need carpenters but nail drivers. After asking about housing or where I would stay
the man told me he had 2 houses rented and if I stayed in one I would have to pay him 70 bucks a week . There was no mention of per diem which is a long standing standard in the trade, that you get a per diem when doing out of town work. I was told I would have to be responsible for my own transportation . 12 Hours to the Texas line and fuel being what it is the 10 dollars and hour was quickly dwindling to allot less ,even before taxes.

I was still interested . I ask the man how many Mexicans he had working for him. Which didn't make any difference to me as long as they were legal. He replied he had none. He informed me he had taken his crew from here down there to work .He said they were all whites. I told him well that was good I was proud of him for taking the high road and not hiring illegal's. He then said he wasn't so sure about that. He began to tell me that Mexicans were not stealing our jobs . He said all they wanted to do was work and be paid on Friday. He said that whites were lazy drunks and he had to bail them out of jail . I rebutted and said where is that coming from that all whites weren't that way because I wasn't and I knew of allot more who weren't that way . All they wanted like myself was to work and get paid on Friday also. He disagreed . I told him that wasn't the reason people were hiring them . The reason people were breaking the law hiring them, was because they could get them to work allot cheaper so some greedy morally bankrupt boss that was to lazy to do the work himself could exploit them for cheap labor. He then told me he paid his Mexicans better than his white help .

Now I was left a little stunned that a white man could so judge a whole race of people, his own race, with this kind of blanket statement that all white people were
lazy alcoholic trouble makers. I did tell him that wasn't very honest to make such a unwarranted and untrue statement about a whole race of people.
He replied that he paid his Mexicans better because of it.
Well now we come to my point . Should I think of that man as being a bigoted racist against his own kind ? Should I think of him as a dishonest
morally bankrupt person for lying about even having any Mexicans working for him ! Then telling me he did and not only did he ,but he was paying them more because of his bias towards whites.