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...grower wanted to hold the election the full seven days after we filed for an election, the maximum allowed under the 1975 California Agricultural Labor Relations Act. By then most of the work would be done, and since Sam Andrews was charging $8 per day for the rice and beans he offered them for dinner and the barracks-like tin sheds they lived in in the camps, the grower knew they wouldn't stay without work. However the saqueros were so strong for the UFW that they wrote and signed a petition to the Agricultural Labor Relations Board to hold...
Agricrime has become so bad in the state of California that the annual loss in crops and machinery is estimated at $30 million. Avocados and artichokes are among the hottest of the hot crops. Observes Gerhardt Clasen, an avocado grower in the town of Fallbrook: "Thieves can strip a tree in half an hour and get $15 for their work." Even more amazing, according to Edward Boutonnet, who is chairman of the California Artichoke Advisory Board, are "the sightseers who stop their cars and pick our artichokes. They're affluent doctors and lawyers and people like that. You confront...
...white Rhodesians derisively call "the chicken run" or "the yellow route": he emigrated The former Cabinet minister explained that he strongly disagreed with the Smith government's negotiations toward black majority rule, adding, "I have certain convictions. I also have a life to lead." Once a millionaire tobacco grower De Kock is now helping his brother run a farm in South Africa
...list; its revenues fell almost 34%, to $1.1 billion. At that, refiners are lucky; they have continued to make a profit ($43 million for Amstar last year) because their cost of buying raw sugar has fallen as fast as the price at which they sell the refined product. Growers in the U.S. and abroad are losing money. Moans Cane Grower J.R. Roane: "Louisiana will be out of business in another two years at this price level." The price collapse has badly hurt the Cuban economy; that is a major reason why Fidel Castro is eager to re-establish trade with...
...arrived at Harvard was well on his way to becoming the country's foremost mateur golfer. Egan was the first collegiate player to win the U.S. Amateur before graduating, winning back to back in 1904 and 1905. He mysteriously retired from competition in 1911 when he became a fruit grower in Oregon, 300 miles away from the nearest course...