Poverty in the Valley of Plenty

[72] - AFL ; 16mm ; good (both prints); Black and White; On Reel; Positive; English; California corporate farmworkers, farmworkers strike and DiGiorgio Corporation; Taft-Hartley Act; illegal immigrants. The film is the story of California Farmworkers who are denied decent wages and living conditions under employment with the DiGiorgio Corporation. The workers are forced to work long shifts under bad conditions and without federally mandated or company benefits of any kind. The workers decide to organize under the AFL and strike the employer. In response, DiGiorgio brings in "wetbacks", or illegal immigrants from Mexico to replace those workers on strike. The strike is plagued with violence and unrest. The film also makes the point that the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 does nothing to help farmworkers and purposely keeps them out of NLRA jurisdiction. Poverty in the Valley of Plenty, 22 min. long. -- 800 feet of film