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...Ferrara disputes my statement that 25 per cent of all full-time farmworkers earn less than $5 a day, claiming that the actual figure is 11 per cent. Here he has read the wrong line of a table in the Agriculture Department's "The Hired Farm Working Force of 1970." 11 per cent of all "farmworkers"--including those who work only a few days a year in the fields--earn under $5 a day. But of full-time farmworkers--those working over 150 days a year--the figure is 25 per cent...
...Peter Ferrara has the distinction of being the first Crimson contributor whose work ("Is Chavez Fooling Harvard,"Crimson, Oct. 21) is hanging in the Chelsea market. By the time he gets his grapeskin he may make the Fulton market: if he had his way, there's still be scab products around a couple of years from...
What a loss to everyone that Ferrara was too young to be in college during the Farah strike: the strikers would have found out how soft they were living; the world could have blissfully worn its (then) scab pants; and the Crimson could have gotten all that income from scab advertising...
...wonder how soon Ferrara will write a full page article explaining why the Harvard workers really don't need to unionize after all. And how much faith do the workers in the Yard have any more in the Crimson's support for their unionization efforts...
Exactly where is Mr. Ferrara (Crimson, Oct. 31) getting his information about the UFW? Virtually all of his "facts" seem to be taken from interviews with unidentified "farmworkers" conducted by anonymous "interviewers," held at some unspecified point in time. One look at the "sources" he constantly quotes reveals how reliable his information is: "One Washington columnist wrote..."; "...in a secret memorandum of agreement..."; "...a worker reported..."; "...another worker reported..."; "in a personal interview, one worker said..."; "...three workers who had filed suit against Cesar reported..."; "...other workers reported..."; "...one worker said..."; "...many farmworkers also complained..."; "...one woman who had worked...