Farm Workers Evicted for Revealing Wasco Slum Conditions & Scientists Warn of Permanent Pesticide Effects: Trabajadores Agrícolas Desalojados por Revelar las Condiciones de los Barrios Marginales de Wasco y los Científicos Advierten Sobre los Efectos Permanentes de los Pesticidas

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Farm workers who worked in Wasco Labor Camps where evicted for allowing reporters to witness the inhuman and unsanitary conditions that they lived under. The article on the right focuses on the harmful effects of DDT and pesticides. Workers, organizations sought to regulate the use of DDT. Also included on the right is an article focused on gathering support for United Farm Workers Organizing Committee boycott. The page on the right focused on the issues surrounding the sainitation of produce.

Keywords

Wasco, labor camp, KERO TV, Bakersfield, California, Health Department, Camp Manager C. B. Roberts, Bill Bloecher, reporter, Environmental Health, Strike, Kern County Health Department, S. Reichard, tenants, pesticides, poisons, chemicals, DDT, Illinois Christians, Grape Growers, rejections, Sanitation laws, Richard M. Welch, biochemical pharmacologist, Izaak Walton league, Citizens for Natural Resources Association, Davis, James O. Keith, biologist, research, Washington D.C., FDA Federal Drug Administration, boycott, distributions

Date

1969

Language

English

Location

California & Illinois

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El Malcriado Newspaper Collection

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Archives & Special Collections of California State University, Monterey Bay

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"Farm Workers Evicted for Revealing Wasco Slum Conditions & Scientists Warn of Permanent Pesticide Effects: Trabajadores Agrícolas Desalojados por Revelar las Condiciones de los Barrios Marginales de Wasco y los Científicos Advierten Sobre los Efectos Permanentes de los Pesticidas" (1969). United States Government. 15.
https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/elmalcriado_government/15