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Michigan growers demand labor shift after 1965 apple loss
Michigan farmers cite Secretary Wirtz’s limits on Mexican labor as the cause of nearly two million bushels of apples and over thirteen thousand tons of pickling cucumbers rotting in 1965. They warn prices will rise and incomes drop if policy not changed, urging transfer of farm labor control from Labor to Agriculture.
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Michigan
Willard Wirtz
Wirtz
Labor Sec
Retary
House-Senate
Michigan Farm Bureau
U. S. Department of Labor
Department of Agriculture