Kennedy. general and particular. 1. The banthegrapes movement centering upon the efforts of Cesar Chavez to unionize the grapepickers in California is. to say the least. incompletely informed. The grape boycotters are contending that the pickers live In inhuman conditions and that all of this is the result of a few grapegrowing monopolists who take ruthless advantage of the misery of immigrant Mexican farmhands. whose liberation is the cause of Cesar Chavez. In fact. the situation is not as depicted. Two prominent Canadian liberals who figured in the Toronto grape boycott a while ago have just come back from a tour of Delanothe center of the struggleto report that the squalid living conditions Chavez speaks about are largely fictitious. that the workers oppose a union because they fear that it would limit their working hours and therefore their earning power. and that there are reasons to suspect that the high pressure being put on the area is rather imperialistic than compassionate: that what the AFILCIO desires Is a footinthedoor to ease its way into the national scene as bargaining agent for all farm workers. which position would put its hands on $84 million per month. 2. Ninety percent of the pickers are not migrants but permanent residents. Wages? The average farmworker wage in California Is. according to the Department of Agriculture. the highest in the nation at $1.69.
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