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...never held elections and the UFW had rejected its offers to do so. While the Teamsters and growers have always demanded elections, Chavez has consistently prevented them. Chavez testified against a California legistlature bill in 1971 that guaranteed secret ballot elections, saying elections were too sophisticated for farmworkers. Dolores Huerta, UFW vice president, testified, "Farmworkers don't understand democracy, they don't know what an election...
Another source of misrepresentations by Chavez and his supporters has been the subject of farmworkers' wages. In 1972, UFW vice president Dolores Huerta reported on public television, "The average earnings of a farmworker in the U.S. are only $1400 a year...
...time workers, you will get a distorted, meaningless figure for annual incomes. Averaging the annual farm income of some one who works two weeks in the fields with someone who works all year would hardly give you an accurate picture of their wages. But this is precisely how Dolores Huerta and Chavez's supporters get their figures for annual farm incomes...
...based multinational companies have long since written off as dead losses the Chilean operations that were expropriated by the late Marxist President Salvador Allende. But last week the new Chilean Foreign Minister, Ismael Huerta, announced at the U.N. that the military junta that overthrew Allende in a bloody coup last month has reopened negotiations with Anaconda and Kennecott with a view toward paying them something for those giant copper mines -Anaconda's Chuquicamata and Kennecott's El Teniente-that Allende expropriated. Some other members of the Chilean U.N. mission even dropped hints that Anaconda and Kennecott might actually...
Both sides were quick to emphasize that the talks are in the most informal, preliminary stage (though one copper-company executive added that a supposedly casual meeting with Huerta was attended by "70 to 90" U.S. executives...