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Wednesday, February 1, 1984n"he Battalion/Page 9 c ^6y$i The Battalion SPREADING THE NEWS Since 1878 WHAT’S HUNGARIAN BESIDES GOULASH? THE HUNGARIAN STATE FOLK ENSEMBLE Good to the lost drop Photo by BILL HUGHES A COMPANY OF 100 DANCERS, SINGERS & MUSICIANS! Major Richard M. Pitts, shown here, was one of the last people to drop classes this semester. Tuesday was the deadline for drops with no record. For those with a little more adventure in their blood, Friday, Feb. 17 is the last day for Q-drops. FEBRUARY 11 RUDDER AUDITORIUM Xontiie mice j 105 farm workers money after settling MSC OPAS suit r firms r.r ieatf riesc United Press International EL PASO — One hundred and five farm workers who said they were lied to by recruiters for Pennsylvania mushroom farmers cheered Monday night as they watched each other re ceive checks for $459.93. porated in Pennsylvania. They said they were foreced to work in a state of peonage between Sep tember, 1981 and August, 1982. The company confiscated work ers’ immigration documents un til they paid off transportation and lodging payments to the company, the suit said. der Farm Workers Union, to attend a meeting Feb. 5. “We want your effort to serve as an example to others,” said Jose R. Rodriguez, a Texas Ru ral Legal Aid lawyer who helped win the Giorgi suit. plying $1 million a year to de velop the land in Mexico they leave to search for work in the United States. Primero said leaders in the cooperative hope to improve Mexican farm production as an incentive to keep workers at home. MASKET1 announces a LATE NIGHT FOOD & BEER SPECIAL The money was part of a set tlement of a class action suit filed last May against the Giorgi ’ i Co., " 25 4 pied if die* Mushroom Co., of Temple, Pa., and two El Paso farm labor con tractors. In October, Giorgi agreed to pay $29,700 to 18 workers who originally filed suit. The com pany also said it would pay others who filed claims before the end of 1982. Over the weekend Mexican farm worker union officials met with their counterparts from New Mexico, Arizona and Cali fornia in Phoenix and pledged to help each other, union leader Esteban Posada said. Ken’s Automotive The workers alleged the re cruiters made promises that eva- ilewhot id. ■%r. eirowiif canSi Kids, bank sign loan More than 200 workers had been recruited by Leticia Vas- quez and Gabriel Galarza in the El Paso area. Organizers of the meeting in offi " ' Union leaders reported on an Arizona cooperative of 10,000 Mexican migrant workers who are trying to improve their land at home. ra Q. <D cc sk fori' eers United Press International the offices of the Community Action Agency told the workers the suit was a success, and the springboard for further efforts. don'tiU AUSTIN — Bicycles and icularr |radios don’t usually count as col- erstantii lateral for a loan, but a bank ea gerly accepted the items Tues day to close an unusual loan with mteers! stuc * ents f rom an Austin ( l elementary school. ■ifliJ Texas American Bank “-hour" approved a $500 loan for the ■ worh Reat * Elementary School stu dent council, which wants the money for a video camera. The unorthodox loan was the first major project undertaken through the Adopt-a-School program, a joint venture be- jucand* tween schools and businesses. d care!,' Twelve students offered colla teral that ranged from clock radios to home computers. All the former Giorgi work ers were invited by members of the Union de Trabajadores Agricolas Fronterizos, the Bor- The cooperative members set aside 20 cents of every dollar earned while working in Arizo na fields to be used for farm de velopment projects in Mexico. O 3 < 0) a> a. £ o o Adelaide Primero Arteaga, a cooperative spokesman, said migrant workers are now sup-- 421 S. Main — Bryan 822-2823 "A Complete Automotive Service Center” • Tune-Ups . 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