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Source: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture...
...DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE STATISTICS: It is very easy to play with numbers as Ferrara has proven. He uses numbers of a national survey to account for a problem which is Californian in nature: the boycott of scab grapes, Gallo wines and iceberg lettuce. According to the same source (U.S. Dept. of Ag.) there are well over 200,000 farm workers in California (1967, latest statistics available). Of these 1/3 are migrants. In 1968, the average hourly wage in California for a farm worker was $1.75 per hour. This included permanent and seasonal workers. BUT, farm workers in the table...
When you add $.10 in increased wages to self dignity and self determination, the farm workers under UFW contract in 1970, were the "richest" in the world! Ferrara also fails to mention the increase to $2.41 per hour in 1973 under the UFW contracts; and, other U.S. Dept. of Agriculture statistics like: Infant Mortality in farm workers in 125% higher than the national rate; Maternal Mortality is 125% higher than the national rate; Influenza and Pneumonia is 200% higher than the national rate; TB is 260% higher than the national rate; and, the average life expectancy is only 49 years...
...meantime, the City Council has approved, on the City Manager's suggestion, a $60,000 grant from the Committee on Criminal Justice, Dept. of the Commonwealth of Mass., for a Police-Community Task Force Program that was thoroughly repudiated by significant segments of the Cambridge community a year and one-half...
...suggest, then why don't they resign from The Crimson? I doubt that anyone has actually resigned, and I think that their failure to do so is indicative of the complex nature of such problems that they themselves have refused to acknowledge in this editorial. Jonathan Tumin GSAS-1 Dept. of Government