12—Lancaster Farming, Saturda;
, Oct. 23, 1976
j LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Farm labor law spreading
Dear Editor
To the Pennsylvania
“family farmer” who thinks
Farm Calendar
[Continued from Page 10]
District meeting of the
Maryland Cooperative
Milk Producers, Centre
Presbyterian Church,
New Park, York County,
Pa. 7 n.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 27
Monthly board of directors
meeting of the Berks
County Conservation
District, 2 p.m. at the Ag
Center in Leesport.
Personnel Management
Workshop, 8:30 a.m. to
3:30 p.ra. at the Lan
caster County Farm and
Home Center.
Hunterdon County, N.J.
baby beef sale, at the
Coliseum, Trenton
Fairgrounds
Eastern National Livestock
Show begins at the
Timonium Fairgrounds,
Timomum, Maryland.
New Holland Sales Stables
annual dairy show and
sale. Show cows must be
in the bam by 6 p.m.,
Tuesday. Judging 10 a.m.
today, sale at noon.
Thursday, Oct. 28
Lancaster County 4-H Dairy
Banquet, 6:45 at the
Farm and Home Center.
Lancaster County Poultry
Association banquet
Policy development com
mittee of the Penn
sylvania Farmers’
Association, meets at the
Crossgate Inn,
Mechanicsburg, today
and tomorrow. -
Friday, Oct. 29
Pennsylvania Poultry Queen
Pageant, 6:30 p.m. social
hour, diinner an hour
later, at the Sheraton
Harrisburg Inn, at the
intersection of 1-83 and
the Pennsylvania Turn
pike.
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you are putting far too much
emphasis on Proposition 14
on the ballot in California,
please assure him that
California “family farmers”
are taking the brunt of this
pro-labor bias that is trying
to get itself locked into a
statewide election so that
change, even for the in
sertion of a comma, will be
possible only through
another statewide election.
Harry Kubo, president of
Citizens for a Fair Farm
Labor. Law, is leading the
fight of California farmers to
stop the legalization of
harrass'ment, coercion,
intimidation and threats to
family farmers there before
it has a chance to spread to
the East.
“The rights of not only the
farmer, but also the-farm
workers, are being
violated,’’ charged Kubo
speaking of existing and
proposed edicts laid down m
the state’s farm labor act.
In addition to being
disturbed over “violations of
right,” Kubo is angered by
the'Proposition 14 proposal
which allows union
organizers an almost endless
right to come onto farm
property and disrupt normal
operations.
“You kick an organizer off
the farm for being disruptive
and all you can do is file
some kind of an unfair labor
charge with that biased, pro
labor Agricultural Labor
Relations Board. And the
next day the guy is back on
your farm and you have to
let him enter and he can
disrupt things all over
again.”
Kubo, who with his brother
farms 210 acres in Parlier,
philosophized recently about
Proposition 14 saying, “You
have to recognize not only
your rights but the right of
others. And this includes the
right of the workers. Under
‘l4’ the worker would just
about lose his right to work
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or not work under a union
contract. The union could
bring such pressure on him
under ‘l4’ he’d have to join
even if he didn’t want to.”
The New York State Apple
Growers Association just a
few days ago notified its
members that Cesar
Chavez’s union has opened
an office in Middletown,
N.Y., which will become
their Northeast headquar
ters. They say Orange
County was chosen for their
central office because of its
migrant labor camps. Ulster
County, immediately north,
is apple country using many
professional pickers, too.
Then Chavez expects to open
an office in Wayne County.
Those close to Chavez have
stated that the first target
out of California besides
Florida will be New York
State. That’s getting awfully
close to Pennsylvania for us
to turn our backs on the
problems of other “family
farmers.”
If the right of union
organizers to enter private
property becomes law, it will
set a dangerous precedent.
There isn’t much difference
between a union official
coming on to a ranch or farm
without being invited by the
owner, and an uninvited
guest coming into their
homes or yards without
permission. Property rights
are basic Constitutional
rights. If Proposition ‘l4’
violates them for one
segment of agriculture and
business, which will be next?
Sincerely,
Gail McPherson
New Park, Pa.
Raking leaves is a
traditional fall chore in this
country, but’in the west
African nation of Chad, the
leaves of the acacia albida
trees are purposely left to
decompose and fertilize the
ground. CARE, the in
ternational aid .and
development agency, sup
ports this vital food-for-work
project by providing acacia
albida tree seedlings .and
supervising their planting in
drought-damaged aceas.
In 30 years the original
CARE package-a parcel of
food-has grown into a wide
variety of food-for-work and
other self-help programs.
Today GARE provides
everything from food to
textiles, tools, construction
equipment and technical
know-how for building
clinics, • farm-to-market
roads, water systems or
schools. And MEDICO
upgrades health care by
training local medical
personnel.
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