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...October 21 Crimson article; Peter Ferrara argues that the considerable public support and sympathy for the United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO has been generated by deliberate misrepresentations by union leaders regarding (1) the wages of farm laborers; (2) their living and working conditions; (3) the economic position of their employers and the extent of farm labor support for the UFW. Although there have been a number of very strong responses to it already, Mr. Ferrara's argument is so faulty in its use of data and so misleading in its inferences that we felt we should add our voices...
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of Mr. Ferrara's article is its implication that the typical farmworker is a satisfied, relatively well-off citizen who has little need of or desire for a union such as the UFW. It is hard to square this image with even a minimal knowledge of the realities of farmworker life. Our own very different experiences (one of us spent many years in a community regularly employing migrant labor and the other worked for two years as a legal services attorney among farmworkers in Delano, California) only confirm what has been said and observed...
...Ferrara would have all of us who have responded to appeals from the UFW for aid and support believe that we are the victims of a concerted and quite massive misrepresentation. No fair and reasonable assessment of the relevant date could support such a conclusion...
...suggest that Chavez has not fooled Harvard, but rather, the various government agencies relied upon by Mr. Ferrara have fooled him. Does anyone remember the veracity of government figures concerning the Viet Nam conflict, or America's involvement in the latest elections in Chile? Al Cornett...
...study of corporate farming used by Peter J. Ferrara on this page last week, which supposedly shows the negligible importance of corporate farming, should not be taken seriously. The study was set up hastily by the Department of Agriculture to stem the tide of protests against corporate farming and to underestimate the real figures. I happened to meet one of the authors of this study and he knew quite well that his figures were unreliable. A counterstudy made by Professor Rodefeld in one state showed that the figures of U.S.D.A. were underestimated at least by one half...