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Neither the pay scale nor the problem of pesticides in the fields is a major issue, both sides agreed. The issue which has kept the grape boycott going since 1965 is still whether the AFL-CIO farm workers will represent the migrant workers...
...scholarship, Saul Alinsky's cogs-and-wheels knowledge of the impoverished and disaffected, and Walt Whitman's passion for undeodorized reality. As a cantankerous, outspoken symbol of the unindexed human spirit, Lundquist is too dangerous to be allowed to roam the nation's slums, migrant-labor camps and mined-out hills. He might stir up the animals, or give them dangerous lessons in non-gamesmanship...
Besides Moralist Matthiessen, there is Labor Historian Matthiessen, sketching in the miserable background of the migrant farm worker. Ethnic Historian Matthiessen scrambles to provide a brief study of Chicanos (Mexican Americans) practically back to the time of the conquistadors. On the scene in the summer of 1968, Reporter Matthiessen gets down the local color, checks out some picket lines, balances his story by interviewing some of the biggest growers, and even manages to quiz a few bystanders. What does the waitress at the local dairy freeze think of it all? No comment...
...young lawyers who run the OEO Legal Services Program see themselves as ombudsmen for the poor. As such, they do more than represent individual indigents in minor court actions. They also sue state and local governments on behalf of welfare recipients, migrant workers and other large groups of poor people. The growing success of such broad test cases may be measured by the opposition that has surfaced in the U.S. Senate...
Already lawyers in the South Florida Migrant Legal Services program are in trouble with Governor Claude Kirk. He threatened to veto the program when the OEO lawyers brought legal action on behalf of migrant workers against, among others, the Florida State Employment Service. In a compromise, the lawyers agreed to permit appointment to their governing board of more members who may not be sympathetic to such suits...