Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brief address to the council, Louis B. Studer, a member of the Cambridge Committee to Support Farm Workers, urged the council to help "end the oppression and exploitation" of the farm worker...
Wylie gave the reason differently: "I'm entering the resolution because next week is part of a nationwide drive to support the migrant farm worker...
Shapiro and I went to a crumby joint (hardly the "best food in the world") whre we ate and argued. He made it quite clear he dislikes the communist Party for Workers Power (Workers Power, for short), which I'm a member of. He's against the "overly serious pro-worker approach through which people in and around the Worker-Student Alliance Caucus (WSA) helped build and lead SDS from '67 to '72. And he made it perfectly clear he opposed Workers Power members (many of whom were deeply involved in this earlier organizing) building this same type of movement...
...well they might have been--except that I never made any such speech. Shapiro invented this "recollection" to make the worker-student alliance politics behind the anit-ROTC campaign in '69 look unreal. The Workers Student Alliance Caucus (WSA) won many to transcend a narrowly student-centered approach, to take on broad problems (war and ROTC, racism and Harvard expansion) from a consciously proworker, anti-big-business vantage point. Instead of fighting ROTC because "militarism sullies an otherwise neutral university," we said fight ROTC because it serves the giant financial interests which control Harvard (among other things) and use ROTC...
Other criticism focuses on the U.F.W.A.'s poorly run medical benefits program. Farm Worker Concepción Garcia claims that when she tried to collect a $300 maternity payment from the U.F.W.A., "I was told that I was ineligible because the grower I work for was a thief. I complained, and finally the person in the union office said I could have the money if I would steal his books...