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Harvest of Shame

by: McGraw-Hill Book Co.

Publication date: 1960

Topics: Educational Film, Series: Harvest of Shame, United States (1951-1999), Labor and laboring classes, Farm work, Social protest, Social protest, United States (1951-1999), Labor and laboring classes, Farm work

Publisher: CRM Films2215 Faraday AveCarlsbadCA92008-9919USA(800)421-0833(760)431-9800http://www.crmfilms.com

Harvest of Shame Reel 1

Reel 2 available here

Shows the degradation and exploitation of millions of migratory farm workers in the United States. Spokesmen for the groups present their views, both for and against the use of migratory workers under the conditions seen.

Addeddate: 2015-06-11 03:02:11

Boxid: IA113010

Color: color

Curatenote: "color: Good sound: Good synch: Good notes: Film edge is visible on all sides."

Identifier: harvestofshamereel1

Oclc_id: 3133595

Ocr: I. Thought oh no I am. In with the work we've got a book of the doubt. This scene is not taking place in the Congo. No. Nothing to do with Johannesburg or Cape Town. And is not natural and or Nigeria. This is Florida. These are citizens of the United States one hundred sixty. This is a shape up for migrant workers and if you deny the nominees the hawkers are chanting they're going to be straight at the various below. This is the way that humans who harvest the food for the best that people in the world got hired. It's one farmer looked at this and said We used to own our slaves now we don't run from. The secretary of labor looked at the migrant plight and said I think that the great mass of what I've called the excluded Americans they are people who cry out. Workers and their children know why you cry out for some assistance. And who's right. Shame shame for the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation the largest farmer's Organization says I think the most sell for workers would agree that it's better for a man to be embroidered even if his capacity as it says to limit to the income and we take the position but it's probably better to have powers and so these folks who are practically on a probable running some money bring some productive work for of least a few days in the year this is an American story that begins in Florida and ends are New Jersey and New York state that the harvest it is a nine hundred sixty Grapes of Wrath That begins at the Mexican border in California and ends in Oregon and Washington it is the story of men and women and children. Rucka hundred and thirty six days of the year and the average nine hundred dollars a year. They can only must they write. They follow the sun. Well I don't know I don't look like going to have get a hand I get back to keep going you know. We can find and then or a minister named Cassidy who works with them says dad laying on names but in a way they are treated I wish to that than body at that. Is that it may well not. They are the migrant workers in the sweatshops of the soil the Harvest of Shame. Now that would armor Oh this is a C.B.S. report Harvest Of Shame it has to do with the men women and children who harbors the crops in this country of ours the best said nation on earth these are the forgotten people. The under protected the undereducated the under clothes the underfed we present this report. Thanksgiving because we're not for the labor of the people you are going to meet you might not star what your table would not be laden with the luxuries that we have all come to regard as essential we should like you to meet some of your fellow citizens will harvest the food for the best fed nation on earth they would load talked to Mrs they'll be thirty four years old mother of nine children this is doubly what what what things do you pick up north we think strawberry and Terry who worked with the this family everybody except for maybe who takes care of them in this new way all right just kind of stay along with us or take care of their family want to die in the baby bag. What isn't that bridge generous of the family. Well we just. You mean why do we have him. Yes Well because part of names and facts and the pain is there. Some corner something like. I mean quarts of milk do you buy for the children as well we don't I don't we don't have me I think maybe finally there are take take we have you know Pat wants to wait for all these children you know they behave as she is on the bottle and she uses that think that means that we are still going to have me about want to wait. Do they like to drink milk Mrs just saying I know I was nice that question I was quite shocked that they had milk only once a week. They did not mean that they had they not me up by the way other the mania and again on the mail call Mike I'm going to rain on them that we just came forward every day. What do you want most for your children this is over. Well I'd like for him to have a career. Whenever they go when they get out of course the smaller ones they've not don't realize that now what they've not conveying. That would they have our girls she'd like to go to go if you could course you have to be back though I have to clean it themselves in that. She read a line go to see you had to miss my sleep. Akash ahead keep her maid can learn. This is Joe B. Would you ever going to have a house of your own. I'd like to have passed since we plans and I want to we can have are good enough to find an online we buy wanna do you think this will ever happen. Well and now with same like you. This is Belle Glade Florida where the exodus has its beginning every year. The migrants call it their home but the circus people called their winter quarters there is Sarasota. Charles good luck to you for police of the glade says the problem that we have now are the ones that that come here that don't have the money to rent a room. Lay they'll sleep around the bar in the grass in the packing houses. Around the lake area. In the park in a place they can find to to sleep. Risk for a few hours later from here with one heart and mind if the survive the end of this season and save enough money to get to do the next day the one north. From towns like this throughout Florida on throughout the south the two to three millions move out on their annual migration which ends in late November. They carry with them. Whatever little they possess whatever little they are empty or control the labor camp while families were preparing to move north there was still some work in the bean fields children as usual were left to fend for themselves. Jerome I will be you know. Nine You go to school where do you go to school after. I see what is your sister's name. That's below it and what do you other sister's name. Captain appealing. But have only your foot your own Did. I want to. See good drove a nail and out by the wash out. What did your mother do for that. Where do you sleep. You know this big bed yeah what happened how did you get that whole in that bed there is room. For what. Now juror you are taking care of of you are lower and lower. Now are you going to get a lunch today what are you going to beat them. Do you have any food here to give them. Yeah. What time does your mother come home. The following day I lean King the mother of your own. Kathy Nellis and build up again was picking beans he linking I saw your children yesterday at the Okeechobee Q Why did you put them in the nursery. No middle of the pay for public there's a cost to put them in. A the feds say eighty five to say I mean what are the to come out the field this morning six o'clock what time when you get home about three thirty four o'clock six this morning to four o'clock this afternoon OK How much did you learn about one dollar that's spent on now is that because the beans were poor quality as this happened before. How much when your food thoughts is a day. Of. Really and how old are you trying the many children do you have taken. How old were you when you first started working in the field. We've been working twenty one years and. Failing Do you ever think you'd be able to get out of this kind of work. All of migrants travel for class if there is a privileged class their ride in their own jalopy in the best Jodi family tradition. The long journey began. Through Atlanta. Nashville. And the an opulent on route to the fields i'm or Church of America. Lol has been following the migrants for the past nine months. Some are free Wheeler who travel as a family unit in that the parsons family as they were about to leave Belle Glade tomatoes for Indiana strawberries that's a prices do you think the farmers you work for care about your problems now are they not in particular are worried about today this point their stuff out and you get away A quick as possible. Would you say that you're welcome when you needed. That is the only time that you are welcome it one day and need me there. They're friendly and everything but once they are done way where they. Did they ever ask you to leave. Oh yeah they'd tell you if you finish like tomorrow where they had voted out don't want to know about three days and that way they'll of an hour. What do you want most in this world for you and your family. I'd like for my family that they will stay together much as possible. I lacked the own a farm somewhere out of way from many people the way they contend one church and interested most than one school. And that way I'll be there or be better says. Mr Parsons do you think this will ever happen. Not to raise them going now know. Most of them ride fifteen hundred to two thousand miles to work in vehicles owned by Kool-Aid or who recruit the workers by the migration north. This is the Rocha family looking for work. Mr Roberts How did you happen to come to this place. Well I came to the our. Common to some paper or NATO make I don't down to way across that there was a graph not a rocker on Waco thing. How many miles you've been travelling looking for work so far not sixteen out of the church what did you spend the night last night with your family over in the wood. Road I don't accept the would. Ask you sir what did you have for dinner and your family last night where we had gone to soften a loaf of bread. That is a very good food for a growing family is it. Well we made how much money do you have in the world right at this moment. All right down on them or what do you intend to do about food for your family today. Out of My way is right now I have better doc and I could get work I had never been a rock and get them to do. The budget about the migrants picked yesterday. Move north. Swiftly on railroads. Produce on route to the tables of the not go buy a trailer is refrigerated and carefully packed debris that bruising battle carried to market by federal regulation must be watered said and rested for five hours every twenty eight hours. People men women and children. I carried to the field of the north and journeys as long as four days and three nights. They often ride ten hours without stop for food or facilities. The first stop is normally at you only Florida one mile from the Georgia border a checkpoint for farm labor. Leaving the state. Oh. There are other stuff. Kingsland Georgia for bread and sandwich me. Very enjoyed it for the seller to. A roadside stop on road in South Carolina. One thousand miles north of Belgrade Florida by way of US Route seventeen and three L. one through Jacksonville so than a constant Wellington a new barn is Elizabeth City North Carolina. Of being stopped. Good for six weeks when. This camp was home for forty days for the families of Tom Lockett's crow now thirty hours out of Belgrade. That's probably how many years have you been working in agriculture in the field goal. Frankly all my life I have to do you know the white LEDs birdeen you feel out of my libraries are my keys with you I notice that there's a store over there and what is that for a website where the stroke me back for the people to sleep on. Well I want mattresses applied here. But used to be back again. This is likely what the water supply over you. For having me people. Just saying. That I really am a bathroom. Down where do you where do you use it that film where in the world the facility that we have one we use our getting. Out of the children around the journey up north. You know that. But we may. Cover doing. This about how many years of even working in the field. You never know how old you were when you started. Out about it you know. Would you like to get out of this work do. You think you'll ever be able to. Do you think you'll be able to the. Twenty miles from Kitty Hawk Not Gone are the workers good one nine hundred miles not my crew leader Norman hall pick be the prevailing rate of fifty cents for. Lunch is not a picnic or go broke from the labor camp or protest but the open air kitchen. Or in a bottle. Heated by the rays of the sun. And the survey in twenty one states conducted by the National Council of Churches the migrants themselves listed the evils of labor camp like bad housing. Flies mosquitoes thirty beds a map or says I'm sanitary toilets the lack of hot water for bathing. One employer of hundreds of migrant laborers were asked how they are happy people. Well I guess they got a little gypsy in the blood they just lack a lot I wouldn't do anything else. Glad I'm don't know in a different that's all they want to do they love it they love to go from place to place they don't have a worry in the world they happen than we are today. They eat tomorrow they don't worry about this race of people know this is Joe do you think that the migratory labor makes a living wage. They make the poor living in other words are sometimes a just like the pharma sometimes when things are good when they use a good and they can make good money they make a livin it but take your union your out and different season different sex and contracts say no they make for a living. There are days when beans are not ready for harvest and that's one more day with no income and King a Kool-Aid or told his workers to this camp of powers landing by Jenya by their work five weeks pulling corn and picking beans. And when the fields of them spread to North Carolina and Virginia on the trucks and buses again move north. This is a little creek faring outside of North. Twenty thousand migrants are ferried to the fertile field of the Virginia cape and the eastern shores of Maryland and Delaware for beans tomatoes asparagus and potatoes. But one crew hardship was climaxed by disaster the death of a migrant but we are going to start on the road about contractors Myron Kandel Myron. There are. Our current run rate. MCHUGH ever happened before with any cruise coming up not one member. Of my like you. Every year as predictable as the seasons there are accident resulting in death and serious injury to these labored under him six one hundred fifty seven at the intersection of U.S. troops three zero one on the State Highway one zero two nine miles from Fayetteville North Carolina. Twenty one migrants were killed seventeen miles three females and the baby by the police report stated one of the cause of the high loss of life was the packaging of the occupants of the truck. Today only six states have laws providing for the same class protection of migrants within their borders the state of North Carolina is not one of the six secretary of labor Mitchell Harding a year goes by that we don't read in the paper some very serious accident where sometimes a dozen or more people have been killed here really because there is no interstate standard with regard to safety. Another complication of the migrant stream is a constant flow of foreign workers into the available pool of domestic workers hundreds of thousands of Mexican restaurants and thousands of offshore laborers from the Caribbean area. Hired by contract. Depress the wage scale of the domestic migrant. This controversy is most better on the west coast of Georgia woods a Marine combat veteran of the Pacific. Competes against the Braceros LOL Talk to the Woods family under a tree which was their home in California. Mr Wood How did you happen to pick this spot the cue someone told us about and I said it was alright to camp here what do you get your water supply we go to town after it and how do you bring a bank you know and can we have a ten gallon can. What do you use for sanitary facilities and to live. Well just get bad best we can have many days where you have to be picking cherries know to find enough money to move into a house now probably quite a few good years and one among three on him and I am SO. Lot of planning turns over here we'll be moving somewhere our funny way this is what tell me about the children do they go up in the orchards and work with you when you work now we have taken them out that sometimes read but I don't think Martha work really scare them here my father things and take care of any of them do you think that you'll ever make enough money picking fruit. Mr Wood in order to get settled on a one place and have a moment your own. I don't think the throughout the United States there are others like the Woods family were not able to enjoy the luxury of living in a labor camp in New Jersey a few miles from Princeton is this labor camp. There are two water taps into outhouses. Families live in one room usually And one bit. Of. The single men live in the bullpen. That. There's space one bank. For people who live in this room and you a jersey. A family of six will move into this room. Nearby a crossing Raceway has new stables for horses they cost five hundred thousand dollars. That cut jobs no yard three hundred migrants live in this camp on an operated by the Potato Growers Association of Long Island. This is migrant housing ninety miles from Times Square. In the. Old and the aim the and in the on the phone the phone to some have tried to leave the endless migratory stream wherever this happened the local slum areas expanded this is Riverhead Long Island New York a minister said this is as primitive as man can live in this settlement of former migrants is called the bottoms. Initial angle County New York State a farm labor camp. The ultimate goal of ADD King's quote twelve hundred and fifty seven miles from Bell Glade. The migrant mission serves one half pint of milk and one cracker to each child. This is their land. Their parents eat lunch in the field. Sometimes seventy five miles away. This is the living space on the lean King and her five children the room is similar to the winter quarters in DON'T made them only smaller. Carlos human president of the American Farm Bureau Federation says that we're the only group of people that furnish housing for workers and we've run a sleaze X. three benefits part of course of some people some sections call propriety. It's almost impossible to calculate the value of these added benefits the same time we don't condone an adequate housing on this issue and then why does the American Farm Bureau Federation still violently opposed federal legislation. I think they'll be more rapid progress. They've regulation then there will be with federal regulation we think that the federal law this lesson will follow the route but almost all federal legislation does of additional on more stringent more regulations with more and more red tape and more cutting to a certain pattern or the country and in fact. Probably rule out the use of migrant right for very quickly the middleman between the farmer and the migrant is the crudely dinner remnant of the put drone system in wide use. Sixty years ago. Ed King Krule leaders as well and truly going to have to in a way you have to be to bother them up in their own when they think this group because the whole group most would be to print and I right there when the Reverend Michael Cassidy who travels with the migrants as well as some of the crudely that. Good. So bad that way said he can be. They give it. To pick a great. And then they. Have. A fifty one hundred people. He makes. Them here.