Seems like they got to drive us," Timothy said. "They’re scairt we’ll organize, I guess. An’ maybe they’re right. This here camp is a organization. People there look out for theirselves…We ain’t never had no trouble with the law. I guess the big farmers is scairt of that. Can’t throw us in jail – why, it scares ’em. Figger maybe if we can gove’n ourselves, maybe we’ll do other things."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 22. Timothy Wallace, a man at Weedpatch government migrant camp, responds to news that the Farmers’ Association aims to incite a riot at the camp. This would provide the law with an excuse to invade the camp. Timothy believes that large farmers are afraid of workers banding together in organized resistance to their poor working conditions.