Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study in 1972 by the Arizona Ecumenical Council, a group of Protestant churches, found that grape pickers in California and Arizona averaged $8000 in annual wages with some as high as $15,000. Today, most grape pickers in California are under Teamster contract and earn $2.52 an hour plus piece rates...
Some Chavez supporters have attempted to explain the strike's failure by saying the workers feared the growers would replace them with migrants. But both California and Arizona, where Chavez has called his strikes, have laws granting the workers unionizing privileges. As soon as the workers strike the state moves in to arbitrate negotiations and the growers must recognize the union. The California Conciliation Service offered to do just this when Chavez first called his strikes, but Chavez declined the offer because the agency would require substantiation of his support among workers...
...Well. In this situation, bankers have great powers to make or break, and they are under extreme pressures. Typically, Phoenix's First National Bank of Arizona (assets: $2 billion) does not have enough money to meet all the loan demands, and its officers must make agonizing decisions about which of many worthy applicants to lend to. Says President Robert D. Williams, 62: "It's rough to tell longtime customers who are also old friends that the well...
...construction, "there is just no money," adds Williams. Recently he turned down a loan application from a successful Denver retailer who wanted to expand his business into Arizona. "Under normal circumstances, there would have been no question," he says...
...Rockefeller has drawbacks as well. Chief among them is the fact that some members of the Republican right wing have never forgiven him for his apostasy in 1964, when he refused to endorse the party's presidential nominee, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Indeed, a dozen conservative Republican Senators have already urged Ford to reject Rockefeller and nominate Goldwater instead. Still, Rockefeller has taken increasingly conservative positions on public issues. He left the governorship in 1973 to launch his Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, one of whose members is Gerald Ford. The founding of that group was regarded...