Thursday, June 21, 1973 THE SUMMER DAILY
LAW ENFORCEMENT INADEQUATE
Migrant children force
SALINAS, Calif. I) It was midday and the fields - in the apples, plums, peach- be asked to get a water b
the nine year old girl in the blue jacket es, all soft fruit and citrus fruits; in row lunch pail," he said.
should have been in school. crops - chili peppers, cucumbers, to- "Older children baby-sit an
Instead, she moved down the rows of matoes, garlic, onions, beans, berries," time a child is nine or 10 he
the San Joaquin Valley strawberry field, said Ronald Taylor, a journalist who has keeping parents supplied with p
carefully plucking berries from the green covered problems of the rural poor for tainers or even picking into th
plants and dropping them into a pail be- two decades. pail."
side her. "The economic fact of life for these mi- "HALF OF the migrant c
"I WAS SICK this morning," she said, grant farm families is simply this: the school are in kindergarten a
trying to explain her absence from school children have to work if the family is one and two," says Pam Bi
but her presence among the migrant lab- going to make a living wage," Taylor said Monterey County migrant educ
orers picking the strawberry crop. in an interview. ialist. "What happens to the ol
The little girl's case is not unusual. "Because most of, these families work she asks, then answers her ow
Authorities say she is one of an esti- on a piece-rate system, their daily pay with stories of 10, 12 and 14
mated 800,000 children under the age of depends upon the total number of bask- who work daily, harvesting crop
16 who, school in session or not, work ets or boxes picked. The children free Manuel Olivas, a former stri
with their pare'nts on American farms the parents from the small, time-consum- er for the United Farm Worki
- frequently in violation of federal and ing tasks that slow down the work. union and a volunteer with Calif
state child labor laws. "CHILDREN of five or six are allowed grant education program, note
"THE CHILDREN are everywhere in to play most of the time, but they may problems of migrant children
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ottle or a
nd by the
or she is
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children in
nd grades
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year olds
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ke organiz-
ers (UFW)
fornia's mi-
s that the
go deeper
than school attendance. He hopes to es-
tablish a dental clinic for migrant fam-
ilies.
"The children especially need dental
care," he said. "There's nowhere they
can go - no place to get any kind of
preventive care.
"YOU NEVER SEE migrant children
with glasses," Bernhard said, "and there
must be many who need them."
Growers generally deny that the child
labor laws are violated.
"We urge and recommend that our
members keep children under 16 out of
the field," said a spokesman for one
California growers' organization. "Grow-
ers are liable to citations and fines from
the State Labor Department, which is
very active and does a good job -- one
that we encourage."
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