Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hungry Cynics. If nothing else, the California hearings demonstrated that decades of deprivation have spawned a nation of hungry cynics. Last week President Nixon took note of the paradox of having 11.5 million people verging on starvation in what is glibly known as an affluent society. It was a marked turnabout for the President, who only days before was reportedly anxious to postpone any organized assault on hunger for at least a year. "That hunger and malnutrition should persist in a land such as ours is embarrassing and intolerable," said Nixon. "The moment is at hand...
...conscience to the hapless life of the migrant farm worker. That was exactly 30 years ago. The stoop laborer in the fields today is still a forgotten man among U.S. workers, often little better off than he was at the time of the loads' tribulations in Depression-era California. In 1969, the field worker is more likely to be a Chicano-a Mexican-American-than an Okie. And the grapes of Steinbeck's title are at the focal point of one of the decade's longest and most wrathful U.S. labor disputes...
After four years of Union Leader Cesar Chavez's celebrated huelga (strike) by California grape pickers, the growers are anxious for federal regulation of union activity in agriculture. Farm workers have always been excluded from coverage by federal labor-relations law. One reason is that farmers are terrified of strikes at harvest time, which would be ruinous. Another rationale for exclusion has been that agricultural employment is so seasonal and transient that farm .workers were not even covered by minimum wage legislation until...
Continued Boycott. What the growers want is a ban on the kind of secondary boycott that Chavez has used against California grapes. They also want laws barring organizational picketing and harvesttime strikes. Not until 1947, twelve years after the NLRB was established, did the Taft-Hartley Act outlaw secondary boycotts and organizational picketing for industrial plants and products. The Shultz plan would extend those prohibitions to agriculture. While the Administration plan would not flatly forbid strikes at harvest time, it would allow a 30-day cooling-off period that an employer could invoke whenever he needed workers in the fields...
...CHANTS!? -- . . . all this and more is what Billy the Surf Bum saw in the now-opened capsule on the end of the dart he was holding in the soon-to-be-empty dating bar in which he (believe it or not) was still standing in fresno beach california, even at this hour in what what was, after all, pacific standard time...