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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1978
Page
13
In Imperial Valley California predawn dampness yields to sun as a bus halts for farm workers to alight. A worker voices a gutteral hello and begins crossing an irrigation ditch to tend rows of barely visible green asparagus shoots. The esparrageros are the first link in the harvest and distribution chain.
In the Imperial Valley a 200000 ton system ships luxury vegetables to markets while California produces about half the U.S. total. United Farm Workers are described on lapel buttons as Union de Campesinos meaning those of the camps. Workers harvest asparagus with quick fingers, cutting stalks and tallying yields as cameras flash and a visitor's questions evoke laughter. They share crates, wheelbarrows, and shaded rests before pay, then return to Calexico or cross to Mexicali. The seasonal routine will continue through future months and years.
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