Word: arizona
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...farm laborers--the lettuce and grape workers under union contracts. The lettuce worker contracts provide for wages of $2.44-$2.49 per hour and piece rates of 42-45 cents per box. If (1) climate and crop conditions are excellent; (2) a worker follows the year-round lettuce harvest from Arizona up the California valleys; (3) the laborer cuts lettuce (the most back-breaking job in the harvest); (4) there is a minimum of dead time (when crops aren't ready or transportation is slow); (5) the laborer works a 6 day week, 50 weeks a year; and (6) the worker...
...that state was a record $77 billion, up 32 per cent over the 1972 figure of $5.8 billion. Bureau of the Census figures for California published in 1972 indicate that (1) lettuce was an $850 million crop; (2) Salinas lettuce companies control 49 per cent of the California-Arizona lettuce market during peak seasons and (3) 38 Salinas growers control 98 per cent of all lettuce production. This same document reports that 6.1 per cent of California farms own 78.6 per cent and 3.8 per cent own 68.8 per cent of the state's agricultural land; 8.6 per cent...
Still, from the Rockies to the Pacific, the Democratic trend seems inexorable. In a recent poll in California, Democratic Senator Alan Cranston was 35 points ahead of Republican Rival H.L. Richardson. Traditionally Republican Arizona will probably elect Democrat Raul Castro as Governor and perhaps even a Democratic state senate. The Democratic sweep is likely to be blocked only in Alaska, where Governor William Egan is trailing Republican Challenger Jay Hammond, and Senator Mike Gravel shows only a slim lead over his Republican rival, C.R. Lewis, a state senator and member of the John Birch Society's advisory council...
Therefore, there should be an end to the boycotts and there should be federally supervised secret ballot elections in the grape and lettuce fields of California and Arizona. The workers should be free to make the choice...
...members of the Arizona Ecumenical Council, a group of Protestant churches, went to the fields in Delano and interviewed more than 200 farmworkers in the UFW, asking them what they thought about the union...