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...only men who will be allowed to move to Radcilffe will be replacements for those who leave, Genevieve Austin, Radcliffe dean of Residence, said. There are currently 309 men living at Radcliffe but no official estimates on how many of them want to leave...
...Esalen in San Francisco and Big Sur, the institute's beautiful Pacific retreat south of Carmel, come 25,000 people a year-and if the pilgrim is turned away there, he can find similar sanctuaries in San Diego (Kairos), New York (Aureon, Anthos, GROW),Chicago (Oasis), Houston (Espiritu), Austin, Texas (Laos House), Washington, D.C. (Quest), Decatur, Ga. (Adanta), Calais, Vt. (Sky Farm Institute), and scores of other com munities. The groups can vary in size from half a dozen friends meeting in a big-city apartment to hundreds and even thousands of complete strangers at a psychological convention...
With that, Coke started to provide the workers with simple amenities -things like ice water, toilet facilities and gloves for pickers in the groves. "Our first instinct," said Austin, "was to change the physical condition in which the migrant worker found himself trapped." The second thought was that simple welfare was not enough. Last February, accordingly, Coke sent a team of behavioral scientists to Florida to plan a comprehensive program that would, in Austin's words, "face up to the basic human problems involved." The result of their study amounts to a sound approach to caring for the migrant...
Benefits and Bonuses. More than anything else, the plan illustrates what has been lacking up to now. The company will establish four permanent social-service centers and one mobile center, which will offer child care, preschool training and adult education. Austin promised better medical care and toilet-equipped buses to transport workers between home and the citrus groves. He said in addition that the company will have "modern and sanitary" dormitories and new homes for its seasonal workers, and will raise the wages for 300 full-time grove workers by 23%, to a top of $2 per hour. The roughly...
...adjusting its planting and harvesting schedule, the company intends to shift as many part-timers as possible to full-time status. Instead of being paid piecework rates, they will collect hourly wages plus production bonuses. By using these incentives to raise productivity, Austin hopes to convert 200 workers to full-time status next year; the plan is for two-thirds of the harvesting employees to be on full-time status with all benefits in five to seven years...