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Cogjm.JWS V7 N3 1992.Pdf (3.434Mb) RECEIVED NOV 30 1992 JOURNAL OF THE WESTERN SLOPE VOLUME 7, NO.3 SUMMER 1992 Properly 01 ~'*MESA STATE Mesa State College . COl l '-""-G'-=-'-- John U . Tomlinson library Grand Junction, Cowra dO JOURNAL OF THE WESTERN SLOPE is published quarterly by two student organizalions at Mesa State College: the Mesa State College Historical Society and the AJpha-Gamma-Epsiton Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta. Annual subscriptions are S 1O . (S ingle copies are available by contacting the editors of the Journal.) Retailers are encouraged to write for prices. J\ddress subscriptions and orders for back issues to: Mesa State College Journal of the W estern Slope P.O. Box 264 7 Grand Junction, CO 81 502 GUIDEUNES FOR CONTRIBUTORS. The purpose of THE JOURNAl... OF THE WESTERN SLOPE is to encourage schoIarty study of Colorado's W~tem Slope. The primary goal Is to pre5eJ"\/e and record its hlslOI)': hoWeYer. artlcles on anthropology. economics. ~t. nauxal history. and SlXIoIogy will be considered. Autho!lhip is ~ to anyone v.t1o ~ to submit original and scholarly matefia1 about !he W~tem Slope. The editors encourage !elters of inquiry from prosp«tive authors. SMd materials and letters to THE JOURNAl... Of THE WESTERN SLOPE. Me5a College. P.O. Bo.I:; 2647. Gfand.Junction. CO 81502. II Contributors must send two copIeS of articles. 00 NOT SEND THE ORIGINI'i.. EditClfS will not retum manuscripts. Material1hould be typed. double spaced (including footnotes). and footnoted. The editors will give preference to submissions of about 25 pages. 2) NtoN!he editors bO days to re'loieW manuscript'!. During !his tme. the editors ask that you not submit the article to anothef publisher. 31 Footnotes should appear at the end of manuscripts. In THE JOURNAl... OF THE WESTERN SLOPE. aij footnotes will be published at the end of the appropl'iate article. For foomote form. consult the Llnivm.ity of Chicago's most recent edition of A Man Ja! of s*. "I Whenever possible. hiStoricat pIlotographs shoUld accompany manuscripts. along with 'M"inen permission from the owner to publish the phOtos. Upon request. the editOfS will send standard release fOflTlS to prospective (ontributClfS. Send copies. flO( the originals. of pI"IOIographs. F'hotogfaph!; will no( be returned. 51 Send cClJ)lel;. not the originals. of graphs. charts. and mal». Such material must be (leaf and suitable ror reproductiOn. These Items will not be returned. b) Authors submitting articles which r.cJude ora! hiSlory or interviews must send the appropriate release form signed by the sub:ject(sl of the interview(sl. Those needing release forms should write the editors. 7) Artists wishing to submit cover dravvings are asked to write the editors btfore sendirlg materials because drawings must relate 10 articles pubIIShecI in the journal. Artists must grant permission in 'Nriting t>efore a drawing \Nil be ptlnted. Standard release fOlTTls are available from the editors. RtcOV£:D ~~ MESA <::I AIE 1I0V 30 1992 COMEGE ~of Mesa State CoJleoe John U. Tomlinson UbT8 1)' Grand Junction, Colorado JOURNAL OF THE WESTERN SLOPE Editorial Board Donald A. MacKendrick Frank Keller Paul Reddin Steven C. Schulte Editorial Staff Kristen Scott ............................................ Editor DianaJones ............ ... ... ... ... AssistantEditor MarilynMCCoy ..... , . .. .... .. .... ..... Circulation Manager Martin Wenger ... ............ ...................... Indexer Mesa State College Historical Society and Phi Alpha Theta KristenScott .... .... ...... .. _.......... President Marvin Frohock ..... ....... ... .. ..... ....... Vice President Susan Nichols . .• . .. ..• . • . ..... Secretary/Treasurer All material in the JOURNAL OF THE WESTERN SLOPE is copyrighted by the Mesa State College Historical Society and Alpha-G<'Imma-Epsilon Ch<'lpter of Phi Alpha. Theta. Printed on Recycled Paper by Precision Printing THE COVER: The cover artist, Gwen Hill, is a resident of Grand Junction. She was <'I Fine Arts ffi<'ljor <'It Mesa SI<'Ite College and is currently teaching art locally. Contents The Labor Shortage and its Solution During World War II in the Grand Valley of Western Colorado .......................•...... 1 By Kristi Mease John Lawrence and the Opening ofthe San Juans, 1869 - 1882 ................ • ....... 7 By Edward R. Crowther The Howard Lathrop Agricultural Center ........... 18 By David Rowe Las Inmigrantes Mexicanas .........•......••..... 31 By Chery/Anne Richards The Labor Shortage and its Solution During World War [] in the Grand Valley of Western Colorado by Kristi Mease On December 7, 1941, the bombing of Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into World War II. Men throughout the nation entered military service, causing a nationwide labor shortage. Urban areas felt this shortage less as a migrating labor force filled their employment opportunities. The population of Denver grew twenty percent during the war years, attracting one hundred thousand new residents. Tucson, Las Vegas, and Pacific Coast cities encountered similar growth patterns.1 Rural areas, however, did not undergo such migration; thus their labor shortages proved more severe. Regions like the Grand Valley of Western Colorado, which produced highly perishable products and depended upon expedient transportation of crops, relied upon other labor sources to manage their shortages. Following the United States' entrance into World War II, growers experienced serious labor shortages. Normally, women and children provided the vast majority of the work force; however, they failed to supply the necessary labor to harvest existing crops. Each wartime year, 1 - the Peach Board of Control designated a specific committee to launch an intensive advertising program to recruit farm labor. They targeted newspapers and radio stations searching for workers. The program encouraged citizens to schedule vacations during harvest to fulfill their "patriotic duty" and "help the war effort" by assisting with crop production. Leaders of the Peach Board traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with government officials in hopes of resolving the labor crisis. 1hese meetings led to the involvement of Mexican fann laborers, prisoners­ of-war, and Japanese internees to solve the labor dilemma.l Growers stressed the importance of fann production for military success. At the urging of fanners, the United States Govemment established a second Bracero (Mexican Labor) program in August of 1942.3 Contracts between Mexico and the United States allowed growers to secure much-needed labor from Mexican farm workers. The first Bracero program found Mexican workers stranded during the Depression; consequently, the second program contained stricter requirements of American growers. If growers refused to abide by these requirements, the government denied them legal Mexican Labor.lliegal Mexican laborers did come to Western Colorado to work, but uncertainty of their numbers distressed growers. Some individuals claimed the alleged shortage of Mexican workers led to the introduction of Gennan prisoners-of-war and Japanese internees as Iaborers.4 The Geneva Convention of 1929 provided guidelines for the operation of camps and treatment of prisoners. After reviewing the Geneva Convention articles governing the treatment of prisoners of war, American officials determined prisoners could work as laborers.5 From 1943 to 1946, the United States experienced an influx of 375,000 Germans who surrendered to Allied Forces in Africa and Europe.6 Virtually aU Germans became laborers, thus careful consideration of the Geneva document and the prisoners' treatment became essential. Both the Army and the Red Cross investigated. camps regularly, insuring sbictadherence to theGeneva guidelines.1 In addition to Mexican Nationals and German prisoners-of-war, 110,000 Japanese Americans were relocated from their WestCoost homes to remote, isolated camps in the United States interior. Like the Mexican Nationals and the Gennan prisoners, the Japanese internees toiled in the fields of Western Colorado. Between 1943-1946 thousands of Mexican Nationals, Gennan 2 prisoners-of·war, and Japanese internees dominated Colorado's Western Slope fields, orchards, and canneries. In 1943, the first Gennan prisoners-­ of-war arrived in the Grand Valley when the Peach Board of Control introduced them as a reserve pool of labor. This arrangement required that growers bore the expense of transporting the prisoners to, and retaining them in, the Valley. Officials transferred prisoners 10 the Western Slope from the permanent camp localed at Fort Carson, Colorado; however, at this time, growers sought limited useof prisoners as laborers. The Manpower Commission' objected to the ambitions and fiscal squandering of the small, but influential Peach Board of Control.' From 1944-1946, the Peach Board of Control and the Farm Labor Board, under the direction of the Colorado Extension Workers, broughl in Gennan prisoners and Japanese internees. Fort Carson no longer supplied Gennan Prisoners, but they came from the main camp in Trinidad, Colorado via train or truck. Prisoners arrived in the Grand Valley in July and remained until mid-November of each year. The old Civilian Conservation Corps Camps, supplemented with tents, cots, blankets, and other equipment loaned to the growers by the Army, served as the Grand Valley's labor camps.l°Men inhabited barracks, but were housed in tents when necessary. Eight to nine foot fences surrounded the German camps, with armed security provided by the United States Army.ll At this time approximately two
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