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...worked in California, in...Idaho for seven years." David was a migrant worker during World War II. He remembers the need for labor and idealizes the working conditions in the United States. He wants to go back and work. He remembers some broken English. Hortensia will not let him: "It is better that we are here; I cannot learn English--they beat me in school...
...fitting that your Labor Day issue highlighted the current struggle between the United Farm Workers (AFL-CIO) and the corporate growers and Teamsters in California [Sept. 3]. The deplorable working conditions prevalent among the migrant farm workers call for a united stand for what is right and just, so that men are free to work without being exploited...
Television news is often accused of turning a bland eye on controversy, and activist critics yearn for the days when the late Edward R. Murrow savaged Joseph McCarthy and crusaded for migrant farm workers. No such criticism could be lodged against the NBC documentary What Price Health. Broadcast last December, the program attacked the high cost of medical care in the U.S., portrayed individual victims of the system in dramatic terms, and lobbied for adoption of a broad national health-insurance scheme...
...first show, Quinn followed a report on child labor among migrant workers with this comment: "I can remember when my mother and father wanted me to clean my room-I thought that was child labor." After a segment about Chesapeake Bay's contaminated clams, she recalled covering a crab derby in Maryland. As the week went on Quinn lapsed less frequently into such limpness; she laughed more easily and appeared to gain confidence. Future weeks may bring further improvement. Surprisingly, none of the first five shows capitalized on Quinn's talent for interviews...
...Migrant workers often prefer to keep their children in the fields instead of in school. "I want my son to have a good education, but sometimes it's good for him to help with the work," says Miguel Merino, whose ten-year-old son Ricardo earns about $1.80 a day picking vegetables near Fresno. That togetherness is motivated not just by philoprogenitiveness but also by economic necessity. The average income of families living in California's 26 agricultural labor camps is $3,019 a year, and many migrant families must put every child to work simply to keep...