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Growers often claim that their employees like farm work, and it is true that a great deal of seasonal labor is performed by kids, housewives and students. But I never heard of, let's say, Mrs. "Happy" Rockefeller picking strawberries in California or potatoes in Maine to supplement her income. The important question is why so many people--housewives, students and kids--have to go into low-paying and difficult farm work...
...return, the crews drop off newspapers, magazines and books. They have given the widows a transistor radio and a television set, and often bring their families up to visit on their days off. Last Christ mas, the 42 crewmen who had passed through during the year collected $110 to supplement the widows' combined pension of $50 a week. "Since I was a lit tle girl, I've always waved at trains," ex plains Mrs. McGillick. "That's how it started here - just waving...
...morally right or you've got a conflict of interest and you're morally wrong. It has nothing to do with the amount. There are two New York laws. One says that you cannot give or loan money for favors. The other says that you cannot supplement a [public official's] salary. I did not violate either law [with] any sum of money, large or small...
...addition to these, there are many people who find seasonal part-time work in the fields, as a second job to supplement their income. Also, over a million students find part-time and seasonal summer employment as farmworkers and more than a quarter million housewives work in agriculture for short periods for supplemental income. These three groups account for more than two-thirds of all farmworkers and they earn substantial hourly wages, as the above figures show...
...Federal Power Commission and the New York State Power Commission: "Rockefeller is a man who has always attracted talent and been attracted by talented people. He has good relations with minority groups, poverty groups and labor. Through him the President can have access to information and ideas that would supplement...