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...Farmworkers were averaging $4.50 to $5.50 an hour with piece work before there was any union." According to the Department of Agriculture, median daily earnings of full time farmworkers (those working on farms for over 150 days a year) were only $10.90 in 1970. Mr. Ferrara's claim that UFW statistics come from averaging full and part time workers' annual wages is simply not true. Malcolm Lovell, Assistant Secretary of Labor, has testified that the average Chicano family of six, all working full time in the fields, makes $3,350 a year--hardly Mr. Ferrara...
...Rich corporations and conglomerates are only a very small part of the agricultural industry." This statement is true for the industry as a whole. But Mr. Ferrara's implication that it holds for growers whose workers the UFW is organizing is incorrect and misleading. Corporate farms in California account for 90% of the melon crop and 30% of the citrus crop, two of the main areas of UFW activity. Two corporations control over a third of the nation's production of leafy green vegetables, another key area of UFW organizing. (National, 6/15/71). And Gallo wine, currently the main target...
Mary M. Lassen '75, a member of NAM's UFW Support Committee, said yesterday the picketing groups will continue their protests...
...United Farm Workers Union claims the E. & J. Gallo Winery of Modesto, Calif., signed unfair contracts with the Teamsters union in 1973. Gallo claims the contract was legal and fair, and states that the current UFW-sponsored boycott of their wines is unjust...
...farmworkers this was only the beginning. After Chavez got them in his UFW he hurt them both personally and financially, and actually caused their living standards to decline...