California Ballot Plan Aims to Regulate Chavez Farm Union
California voters face a November decision on a 7000 word initiative to formally grant farm workers the right to organize while limiting strikes and boycotts. Cesar Chavez and allies decry it as a grower backed attempt to crush the United Farm Workers. The fight draws in Arizona Kansas Idaho and other states with national implications for labor power.
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Sacramento
Calif
Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers Union
California
Chavez
Delano
Arizona
Kansas
Idaho
New York
Oregon
Gravelle
Chatfield
Texas
Florida
Colorado
Washington
Farm Workers Union
United States
Cesar
Administration Faces Credibility Gap on Economic Improvement
The piece argues that despite official statistics showing income gains and lower inflation, Americans doubt they are better off than a year ago. It notes higher public expectations, activist government policies, and the mismatch between hard data and perceived quality of life, including environmental and social factors, shaping the credibility issue.
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New York
Cattle in feedlots rise signaling more beef for consumers
USDA surveys show 7.5 million cattle and calves fed for slaughter as of Sept. 1, up 17 percent from a year earlier, with Texas Nebraska Colorado Arizona California leading gains. Sept. 7 cattle prices in Omaha averaged 34.58 per hundredweight, above last year but below early July peak. six major states posted increases in feed during August. The report also notes NAWG's warning on winter wheat planting and farm-worker totals for late Aug.
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District of Columbia
Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
Omaha
Texas
Nebraska
Colorado
Arizona
California
National Association of Wheat Growers
Earl L. Butz
Jerry Rees
NAWG
Butz
ROTC Cadets to Receive Distinguished Military Student Awards
Ten Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets at Cameron College will be presented Distinguished Military Student awards next week. The awards ceremony is scheduled for 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Home Economics Lounge of the new classroom building at Cameron.
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Reserve Officer Training Corps
Cameron College
Cameron
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Howard Way
Pol
ROTC
American Finance
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