This power should be matched at least by the legal right of these workers to bargain collectively. I would hasten to point out that we are not talking only about bargaining for wages and working conditions. we are talking about bargaining for decency itself. On June 9. 1968. a major feature story appeared in the Denver Post citing the absurd contention of some large farmers that migrant workers did not need field privies because they would not use them. They argued this in the face of the expert testimony by sociologists that the migrant workers as a group were not less modest than most middleclass Americans. but more so. However. officials observed that serious problems of health were occurring because of lack of privies and field privies could be built for only $2. $3. or $4. the story said. It is one of the sad facts that we have learned in American life that we must protect the weak from the strong.
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Farmers claim migrant workers don't need field privies because they won't use them.