Consumers' Rights
Committee Is Formed
Foimation of a national Con
sume! s’ Rights Committee “de
dicated to solving the problem
of product boycotts and inter
ference with the free flow of
food to the American consum
er” was announced in Washing
ton recently, by Michigan State
Senator N. Lorraine Beebe at
a news conference held with
U. S. Senator George Murphy
Of California.
su PP° rt ' * n states, for leg- grapes, the Michigan legislator
Senator Beebe, R-Dearborn, islation which will give the na- said that these activities “have
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J® 3 n»* S^u- majority eac^er °f tion’s farm workers the right to
the Michigan State Senate and organize and bargain collective
chairman of the new committee ly, if they wish, while at the
which also will support national same time protecting the para
collective bargaining legisla- mount rights of 200 million
tion for farm workers American consumers.
peakl f g , H om J prepared “Second, to work with indivi
at th® office of Sena- duals and organizations concern
“U^Wh°.,armounced re ’ e< * about the growing national
i n .ff y ff k® Wl fj sponsor such threat to the consumers’ right
egislation in the Congress, to decide for themselves what
Senator Beebe said the commit- they wish to buy or not to buy
tee would have two major pur- in the marketplace.”
poses:
Referring to boycott efforts
First, to enlist grass roots involving California table
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been especially intense in (he Shultz Proposes More
Detioit and Wayne County, r
Michigan area because oi the Farm Jobs For Youth
support given the giape boycott
by Walter Reuther ”
Sen. Beebe said that food pro
duct boycotts arising out of la
bor-management problems in
the field “cannot be permitted
to continue if our free consumer
economy is to survive.”
“The fair and proper solu
tion is national legislation such
as the concept proposed by
Senator Murphy and supported
by membe j cl Ijj ' .:rties, ns
well MO i giicvltu. . and cor
sumer g and concerned
citizens throughout the coun
try ”
Sen. Beebe, who made a fmst
hand inspection of California
table grape areas early this
month, said that she found that
“the picture of a migratory la
bor force presented by John
Steinbeck in his ‘Grapes of
Wiath’ more than three decades
ago has no application to work
ing and living conditions in
California grape fields today.”
“The vast majority of vine
yard workers are not migrants,”
Sen Beebe declared “Wages,
while not high, are the highest
for farm workers anywhere in
the United States. Housing for
those workers who do not live
permanently in the area range
from average to excellent on
the larger farms ”
In addition, said the Michigan
lawmaker, “the United Farm
Workers Organizing Committee
and its leader, Cesar Chavez,
have little support in the
fields ”
Senator Beebe added that the
workers she met in California
“expressed resentment over
what they considered the false
image given them by Mi.
Reuther, Mr. Chavez and other
boycott organizers and suppoii
ers ”
She said she hoped that pub
lic officials and others “who
have found it politically expedi
ent to endorse the grape boycott
will also travel to the California
vineyard country, with open
minds and open eyes, to see the
facts as they are ”
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday. May 10.1969—11
Secretaiy of Labor George P.
Shultz has pioposed an amend
ment to the agricultural hazaid
ous-occupations order that would
allow 14- and 15 year-old voca
tional-agricultural students to
drive farm tractois and to opei
ate other machinery.
The proposal amendment
would permit the hiring of these
students only after they com
i late fo {ra nmg p
in the saie use of this equipment
and where employers provide
constant safety supervision on
the job The programs would be
conducted by certified vocational
agriculture instructors experi
enced in the safe operation of
tractors and farm machinery
The agricultural order prohib
its the employment of youth un
der 16 years of age in certain
particulaily hazaidous farm oc
cupations
Persons interested in the adop
tion or modification of the a
mendment have until May 30th
to present by mail pertinent
written data, views, or argument
to the Dnector of the Bureau of
Labor Standards. U S Depart
ment of Laboi, 400 First Street,
N W, Washington, D C 20210.
The proposed amendment ap
peared in the April 30th Federal
Register.
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