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Secondly, I would like to reply to Mr. Torres. In my article I attempted to show that Chavez and his supporters have deliberately misrepresented the facts to gain public support. As former National Legislative director for the UFW, you are one of the people I am talking about. You have continually quoted only the base rate pay, leaving out the piece rates, for your hourly wage statistics as you have done in this letter. Even these are incorrect. The UFW has also quoted your health statistics for years, but no one has been able to find where you got them...
...between 1968 and 1970 that the growers, under increasing fear that the Union (UFW) would be successful, began to increase the wages. Therefore, the average farm worker in the grapes was earning $1.65 per hour. Yes, a $.10 increase, BUT also a medical plan (growers never provided a medical plan); ranch committees which would report health and safety violations (remember the UFW was first to ban the use of DDT in its contracts), replace the farm labor contractor with a hiring hall, grievance procedures to make sure the grower complied with the complaints of the workers; plus...
When you add $.10 in increased wages to self dignity and self determination, the farm workers under UFW contract in 1970, were the "richest" in the world! Ferrara also fails to mention the increase to $2.41 per hour in 1973 under the UFW contracts; and, other U.S. Dept. of Agriculture statistics like: Infant Mortality in farm workers in 125% higher than the national rate; Maternal Mortality is 125% higher than the national rate; Influenza and Pneumonia is 200% higher than the national rate; TB is 260% higher than the national rate; and, the average life expectancy is only 49 years...
...CALIFORNIA CONCILIATION SERVICE AND TIEBURG'S TESTIMONY: The UFW did reject the service's offer because the chairman of that service had just competed a statewide tour denouncing the United Farm Workers Union and the right of farm workers to organize and strike for a Union of their own. Chavez asked for the Federal Mediation Service and the American Arbitrator's Association to step in as a more objective alternative, the growers refused. But the Association did come in later to arbitrate various elections on the ranches...
...MEMBER AGRICULTURAL WORKERS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION": This organization is funded by Teamster and grower money and had a predecessor known as the "Agricultural Workers Freedom to Work Association." This group was disbanded because of the lawsuit filed by the UFW, charging that the group was in violation of the Landrum-Griffin Act which prohibits employee groups being funded by employers. This group was closely allied with the National Right to Work Committee and the National and California Farm Bureaus, who were all opposed to any union and its activities...