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...conditions the UFW are trying to change are the $1.25 per hour average wage pickers earn, and the lack of any health, education, or housing facilities. Growers have been able to fire workers who objected to the conditions, and draw upon the large pool of unskilled migrant workers, largely Mexican-Americans, to make up their work force...
...Twenty per cent of the lettuce served in the dining halls is scab lettuce. Not buying it would be a small thing for the University to do, and it could positively affect the conditions for migrant workers...
...plenty. Thin, dark blond, wearing horn-rims and rumpled clothes, he walks with a schoolmaster stoop, chain-smokes and has a disarmingly direct way of tackling almost anything. Four years ago, he tutored pupils in an antipoverty program in Roxbury, Mass.; in the same year, he worked with migrant labor gangs in a New England apple orchard...
...this season than it ever was. It is just more earnest. The Beverly Hillbillies lit out for the White House to donate $95 million for pollution control. Lassie taped a show battling the same cause last week. Not to be out-involved, other series are tackling the grievances of migrant workers, the excesses of twitchy-fingered National Guardsmen, the spread of gonorrhea, the need for penal reform, the problems of abortion, and the Senate seniority system...
With that, Coke started to provide the workers with simple amenities -things like ice water, toilet facilities and gloves for pickers in the groves. "Our first instinct," said Austin, "was to change the physical condition in which the migrant worker found himself trapped." The second thought was that simple welfare was not enough. Last February, accordingly, Coke sent a team of behavioral scientists to Florida to plan a comprehensive program that would, in Austin's words, "face up to the basic human problems involved." The result of their study amounts to a sound approach to caring for the migrant...