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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
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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.