Florida migrant misery on the tomato farms exposed
Reporter Hal Bernton infiltrated Duda and Sons migrant camps in Florida to document peonage like debt bondage. Workers toil for pennies, face deducted pay, poor meals, wine, primitive housing, and lack of health care amid pests and danger. Many stay due to debt and lack of transport as the U S looks away.
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Washington
Florida
Hal Bernton
Pennsylvania
Duda and Sons
Australia
Europe
Florida Rural Legal Services
Duda
Bernton
Buckley on Healey and Labourite politics in Britain
William F Buckley Jr reviews UK politics under Harold Wilson's Socialist cabinet. He skewers Denis Healey as caught between ideology and practical policy noting inflation taxation and UK finances while highlighting Lord George Brown Solzhenitsyn and Benn. The piece mocks leftist radicalism and laments press censorship ideas.
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London
Denis Healey
Harold Wilson
F. Lee Bailey
Boston
Healey
George Brown
Labor Party
Brown
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Garibaldi
England
Aggiornamento
Ernest Bevin
Wilson
Solzhenitsyn
House of Lords
Lord George
Wick Hampshire
Lord George Brown
Socialist Party
Anthony Wedgwood Benn
Windsor Park
New York State
Republicans Take Orange County Board 1876 Election Report
Edward P. Dougherty notes Republicans secured majority on the Orange County Board of Supervisors in spring 1876. The Middletown Press calls the results a solid send-off for 1876 with 10 Republicans, 9 Democrats, and 3 independents. Reports detail town by town outcomes, including notable gains in Wallkill, Crawford, and Newburgh City, and the first Republican triumphs in several towns.
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Edward P. Dougherty
Orange County Board of Supervisors
Middletown Daily Evening Press
Orange
Newburgh City
Board of Supervisors
Wallkill
Middletown
Isaac R. Clements
Mr. Clements
Joseph B
Old Wallkill
Old Wawayanda
Hudson E. Hulse
Horace Mills
Crawford
Daniel Thompson
Daniel DeWitt
Chester
D. Howell Roe
Samuel Hadden
Mount Hope
George Smith
James Price
Goshen
Robert §. Hock
Carpenter Howell
Monroe
Morgan Shull
Blooming Grove
E.S. Strong
Albert G. Owen
Cornwall
William H. Clark
New Windsor
William R. Weed
Montgomery
Marcus Hill
Greenville
Isaac Seybolt
Highland
Jerry Drew
Newburgh
Jacob Tremper
D.S. Waring
Patrick Brennan
John Miller
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Jack Anderson
United Features Syndicate
United States
Patrick's
William F. Buckley Jr
William F. Buckley
National Review Magazine
The
Washington Post-Ring Features Syndicate
Ed Dougherty
Times Herald- Record
Swarm
Minisink
Hamptonburgh
Henry Seacord
Deerpark
the Good Deacon
Henry W. Nearpass
Warwick
George W. Pitts
Damuel J. Stewart
John W. Bushfield
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