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...A.F.L.) against the biggest ranch of them all, the n,000-acre Di Giorgio Fruit Corp., producers of $5.9 million worth of grapes, plums, potatoes and asparagus each year. The union complained formally that Di Giorgio had refused to negotiate, then treated the Congressmen to its own 25-minute propagan da film called "Poverty in the Valley of Plenty." The camera poked into sordid one-room shacks, lingered on a leaky shower that served 25 families, studied hollow-eyed, ragged youngsters, while a commentator described a sordid way of life that added up to virtual peonage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Wrong Man, Right Valley | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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