Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have compelled often by violent means, smaller growers to join. As early as 1939, California had 30 per cent of the large-scale farms of the United States. Now, the ratio of family labor to hired labor is one to four in California and one to six in Arizona. Three or four companies have gained control over the lettuce industry in California; the grape and wine industry has been recently merged into large multi-national corporations (such as Nestle...
...know what the "unionization privileges" (sic) of California and Arizona are. I have some knowledge of the history of agricultural developments in the Golden State, of its undemocratic system of land ownership and farming. The story of migratory labor from the early Chinese to the Mexicans is as old as California itself. Workers' exploitation, racism, red-baiting, wage-fixing by agricultural employers, violent repression of the civil rights of farm workers with the active collaboration of the police and the courts, tax-payers' subsidies used to boost the profits of landlords and agribusinesses, from the story of Owens Valley ("Chinatown...
...Helene Bacon-Boggs fund grants $300 a year to a female graduate of Shasta College who is admitted to the University of California at Berkeley, if she can prove that she does not drink or smoke. Carleton College provides about $600 to farmers' daughters. The University of Arizona offers $500 to any student with a 2.5 grade-point average-who also has roped calves in a rodeo. And the Union Pacific Railroad offers 300 scholarships of $400 each to students living in counties its trains pass through...
...Arizona Ecumenical Council interviewed 71 non-union grape pickers in 1972. Sixty-five said they did not want to join the UFW and bitterly opposed Chavez, although many said they would like some union...
Ford made clear during the week that his foreign policy will rest on personal efforts at diplomacy. Next week he will meet with Mexican President Luis Echeverria Alvarez at Nogales, on the Arizona-Mexico border. In November, Ford will travel to the Far East to visit with Japanese and South Korean leaders. During that trip he may meet with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, depending on Kissinger's success in an upcoming meeting with Soviet officials in Moscow. In December, Ford will hold talks with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in Washington and later that month with French President...