Word: ferrara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peter Ferrara's article on the United Farmworkers in Monday's Crimson contains a number of important factual misrepresentations and misleading statements which should be corrected...
...Farmworkers were averaging $4.50 to $5.50 an hour with piece work before there was any union." According to the Department of Agriculture, median daily earnings of full time farmworkers (those working on farms for over 150 days a year) were only $10.90 in 1970. Mr. Ferrara's claim that UFW statistics come from averaging full and part time workers' annual wages is simply not true. Malcolm Lovell, Assistant Secretary of Labor, has testified that the average Chicano family of six, all working full time in the fields, makes $3,350 a year--hardly Mr. Ferrara...
...Rich corporations and conglomerates are only a very small part of the agricultural industry." This statement is true for the industry as a whole. But Mr. Ferrara's implication that it holds for growers whose workers the UFW is organizing is incorrect and misleading. Corporate farms in California account for 90% of the melon crop and 30% of the citrus crop, two of the main areas of UFW activity. Two corporations control over a third of the nation's production of leafy green vegetables, another key area of UFW organizing. (National, 6/15/71). And Gallo wine, currently the main target...
...discoverer of Giuseppe (The Leopard) Lampedusa, Bassani is best known in the U.S. for his lambent novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis from which the recent Vittoria De Sica film was made. Like Garden, this book is set in the author's native city of Ferrara during the 1930s. Also as in Garden, the narrator of Behind the Door is a wealthy, sensitive young...
...Three Dimensional Exhibition. Works of John Caldwell. Lee Ferrara. Walter Ganshorn, Vivian Richman, Marlis Schratter and Sarah Westlake, selected in competition by Albert Alcalay of Harvard's Carpenter Center, and Michio Ihara and Gyorgy Kepes of MIT's Center of Advanced Visual Design. CAMBRIDGE ART ASSOCIATION. Daily 10:30 to 5. Sunday through Saturday...