In August 1937, " in accordance with Communist Party decision, upon which I acted ", Vale requested and received transfer to the Federal Theater Project of the WPA and, with others, worked on a play titled " Sun Rises in the West ", about migratory workers, which was later produced at the Mayan Theater in downtown Los Angeles and the Greek Theater in the Hollywood Hills.
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The Industrial Workers of the World are most numerous among the migratory workers of the West; among the homeless, wayfaring men who follow the harvests from Texas across the Canadian border; among the lumberjacks who pack their quilts from camp to distant camp in the fir and pine and spruce forests of the Northwest; and among the metalliferous miners of Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, and Old Mexico.
