Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...show that Chavez and his supporters have deliberately misrepresented the facts to gain public support. As former National Legislative director for the UFW, you are one of the people I am talking about. You have continually quoted only the base rate pay, leaving out the piece rates, for your hourly wage statistics as you have done in this letter. Even these are incorrect. The UFW has also quoted your health statistics for years, but no one has been able to find where you got them and the USDA isn't claiming them. On the farm income figures in the letter...
...Made the Movies. Richard Shickel's intelligent documentary series on film directors. Tonight: The work of Alfred Hitchcock, with clips from "Saboteur" (1942), "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943), "North By Northwest" (1959), "Psycho" (1960), "The Birds" (1963), "Torn Curtain" (1966) and "Frenzy" (1972). Ch. 44, 8 p.m. 1 hour...
Kojak. Ch. 4, 8:30 p.m. 1 hour...
...photography on Christie has a cheap look. It does, however, complement the dialogue and the plots which sound as if they were made up as the actors went along, and the direction, whose only imperative seems to be to stretch 15 minutes worth of material out to a full hour's length...