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A much more serious labor dispute was the two-year struggle in the late 1940s between the company and stevedores at Puerto Barrios over the issue of mechanization and a change in company pay policy from hourly to "piece" wages. As a result of intense lobbying in Washington by United Fruit officials, members of Congress denounced the strife. From that point on, all efforts by workers to confront the fruit company were reported in the United States as purely political disputes, the result of delib
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― Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
― Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
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But I don't shut up and I don't die.
I live
and fight, maddening
those who rule my country.
For if I live
I fight,
and if I fight
I contribute to the dawn.
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