1. After a time working as a seasonal migrant fruit picker, Len Slye, as he called himself, turned to singing, and later to movies. 2. He has also urged unions to be more aggressive in organizing immigrant workers, including janitors, hotel housekeepers, nursing home workers and fruit pickers. 3. Yet a small, loosely structured subculture remains, its tenuous social roots stretching back to the subsistence fruit pickers and tough lumberjacks. 4. An itinerant fruit picker was convicted of arson and murder and is serving a life sentence for the blaze. 5. Arcila, a fruit picker, was sent to a psychiatrist who judged him a paranoid psychopath. 6. News reports have said that Long, a fruit picker, had been banned from the hostel. |