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...pair of jewel thieves on the run from the police join the migrant workers crowded into an abandoned barracks on Italian estate. One of them (Hollywood's Doris Dowling) slogs into the rice paddies and finds redemption in hard work and the love of an army sergeant (Raf Vallone). The other (Vittorio Gassmann) spends his time chasing Silvana and plotting to steal the rice harvest. Along the way is a good deal of earthy violence: Silvana gets birched on a roadside ; Doris is nearly mobbed as a scab by her fellow workers; Gassmann is impaled on a meat hook...
Even if farmers think they can solve their labor problem by importing migrant workers from Mexico (a process tangled in red tape) and by mechanization, many of them may still be reluctant to expand cotton acreage. Before they plow up their pastures and go back to the feast & famine dangers of cotton, farmers will want assurance that it will pay in the long run, that quotas won't be clamped on again next year. Warned the Atlanta Constitution: "[Farmers] would do well to think . . . carefully before giving up in favor of the lure of quick cotton profits...
Maybe some farmers are "riding the crest of the most prosperous wave in farming history." But there are still two and one-half million migrant farm families who toil and starve so the rest...
...Immigrant. The Puerto Rican migrant is neither Puerto Rico's scum, nor its ignorant, nor its shiftless, as he is often pictured. The average immigrant is better educated (six years of school) than the island's average, Columbia found, and almost all of them left jobs in Puerto Rico. Nor is he a peasant. Most come from the island's two biggest cities, San Juan and Ponce...
Eleven years ago, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath carried the hapless Joad family westward on highway 66 to a life of debased poverty on California's big, corporate-owned farms. Since then the story of the impoverished migrant worker in the rich San Joaquin Valley had been told with seasonal regularity in fiction and fact. And sometimes the two got badly mixed, as a congressional subcommittee on education and labor reported scathingly last week...