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...fruit crop were strawberries (which could be producing in three years), the hired migrant labor to pick a crop that large would cost the owner several thousand dollars a year. Tree crops such as apples, cherries or peaches take longer than three years to reach the peak of production...
Exactly 109 years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, the Justice Department announced last week that two black men are under federal indictment in South Carolina on charges of holding at least nine white migrant farm workers in peonage and involuntary servitude. The two blacks, both from Florida, are accused of holding the workers confined against their will last summer during peach picking around Spartanburg, S.C. They allegedly charged the whites exorbitant amounts for such things as wine, soap, razor blades and cigarettes, and forcibly prevented them from leaving until their debts were paid. According to the indictment...
...What kind of potential priest reads Playboy? The Order of the Most Holy Trinity, a 770-year-old Roman Catholic order of priests and brothers who work in prisons and among migrant workers and the retarded, is finding...
Ferree puts affluence's refuse to remarkable purpose. Four times weekly he climbs into a worn old bus and distributes these goods to the Mexican migrant workers who live in brutalizing squalor on both sides of the Rio Grande. But that only begins his chores. After persistent dunning, drug companies have shipped tons of vitamins and medicines to Harlingen, and Ferree dispenses them in the Mexican towns of Reynosa and Matamoros, where he has established makeshift clinics in abandoned shacks. He ministers to minor ailments himself; with the help of admiring merchants on both sides of the border...
...days ago to picket several Boston area liquor stores to promote a boycott of wines made by nine growers in Napa Valley. Calif. The boycott is an attempt to force the growers to negotiate with the UFWOC. Since January, the growers have refused to recognize the union, which represents migrant grape-pickers...