Word: wirtz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have just set out four dozen strawberry plants. If Secretary Wirtz won't send us braceros, I'll pick...
...Angeles and screen scum," charged Jack Tabata, who last month plowed under twelve acres of his Orange County strawberry field in a well-publicized protest against the Government's refusal to lower the bars to braceros. Tabata also sent Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz a tray of bruised berries, picked, he said, by a worker supplied by the Labor Department...
...Pampered Children. "Under the gen eral immigration law, Wirtz can admit foreign laborers if he is convinced that workers cannot be found on the domes tic market and if growers promise the same wages to all - now $1.40 an hour in California. He refuses, however, to admit the huge numbers that flowed in under the expired law (more than 100,000 braceros worked in California last year), bringing cries from California growers for his ouster. Despite the farm ers' complaints, Wirtz's office said, fewer than 10,000 foreign nationals have been requested under the general immigration...
...debate continued, all parties launched into a few hurried, stopgap solutions aimed at saving the crops from disaster. Secretary Wirtz approved the employment of about 3,500 braceros (at $1.40 an hour). And, in a cooperative venture of the Labor Department, state government, farmers and schools, more than 700 high school boys have been recruited to help on the farms this summer. But none of this provides a real answer to the picking problem...
...than 125,000 unemployed workers are being retrained, and 275,000 have qualified for federal training grants. Almost three-quarters of those who have completed their training have already been employed by private industry. These programs are, however, stopgap measures at best. The ultimate unemployment solution, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz believes, lies in education. "There is no place in the future society for the uneducated person," he says. "We could put up with them before, but from here...