Dominican Republic, Inc.:

...Gulf and Western, the conglomerate which owns In 1974 the Lions' Club of Higuey came out against the Paramount Pictures, the New York Rangers and Knicks, increase in land devoted to sugar cane, noting that the shortage Schrafft Candy, the Miss Universe contest, and a host of other of food supplies is directly related to the dedication of great seemingly unrelated subsidiaries, began its investment in the amounts of land to sugar...

...JOSEPH E. MULLIGAN G&W's 417 square miles in the Dominican republic is considered "a state within a state," which means that the LAST SUMMER brought significant political change to the company, in addition to having its own police force, can count Caribbean island nation of the Dominican Republic, on the services of government officials to protect its financial with the bowing out of Joaquin Balaguer and the inaugu- interests...

...young woman with a look of defiance in her eyes...

...because wants to appear to be a defenseless little angel which only there was no work for them here...

...food products which our lands produce not true that Mexico, the Dominican Republic and other Latin but which it is necessary to import because the construction of American countries are responsible for the fact that the U.S...

...No matter what Elaine's difficulties she like my entire body is being asked to deny everything going on could always rely on her father...

...In 1975 this charge was made by the constitutional process...

...Commonweal: 398 A COLUMNIST in a Dominican daily gave this analysis: "Our were owned by absentee landlords who permitted the peasants peasants produce the bulk of our export products, with to occupy small plots of land where they could raise some food which we obtain earnings which allow us to pay for the crops...

...two thousand tareas of sugar cane from G&W, and that this Balaguer had run the small country since 1966, when he was was of the highest quality...

...In a certain sense this is true: dollars earned from The political party says that in the process of picking up the exports are used to purchase the Industrial and technological Haitians "the company's agents of repression resorted to all goods which the country imports...

...their production is entirely for export...

...This charge of "image-building" refers to G&W's rela- 0 F THE COUNTLESS thousands of peasants who have been tively recent decision to devote a very small percentage of its forced out of the rural areas, many thousands have settled land to vegetables which are sold at a bargain rate to its in or near the city of La Romana, where G&W runs its huge employees...

...For many years, there was only "No one approaching fifty who never had and never will one person in her life that she believed was on her side...

...But if the present regime can at least provide some Dominican prison system...

...That have enough money and whose husband hasn't worked in was her father, fifty-five-year-old Edward Harrington, a man years can laugh anymore...

...The system causes the poor, both urban and rural, to starve while land is devoted to FATHER JOSEPH E. MUWGAN, S.J., has written on Latin American the most profitable export crops so that the rich minority can affairs for The Nation, Christian Century, NCR and other journals...

...How's that for excitement...

...Working 40 hours failing to pay them $2.5 million...

...Firms in the Free "colonos" have to pay the government...

...But as a company bent on Haitian laborers who, like "braceros" in the U.S., have few if profit, G&W has been largely unmoved by such criticism...

...Some, like the 787 relationship with governments...

...many promises which then go unfulfilled...

...But what Rosell did not kinds of offenses against the workers and their families, beat- indicate is that these imports satisfy the desires of the upper ing many of them and not even allowing them to take their classes who are addicted to "modern living" but do not reach clothes...

...Though "agricul- The result of such a policy is not only that peasants flock into tural production is the base of the country's wealth," the the Dominican cities in desperation but also that large numbers peasant farmers live in misery...

...Certainly there is enough good land to feed the a token sacrifice of the most notorious foreign enterprise on people, but within a capitalist system the only relevant factor is Dominican soil...

...She might get a whipping from her father after the feels the greatest thrill in life is to break into somebody's car...

...the vast majority of the population...

...you cannot help people permanently by doing for them Public Relations, vigorously denied that there had been any what they can and should do for themselves...

...invasion when it can produce basic foods are totally dedicated to the sugar crop...

...capital N!" Commonweal: 400...

...Goes to school, reads her books, Besides, her father was a fair man...

...During his tenure, foreign investment represented by G&W and promoted by the 1966-1978 regime grew dramatically, and Balaguer's repressive policies guaran- of Joaquin Balaguer...

...The U.S., of course, did not see any general secretary of the PRD, the largest mass party in the real political or economic threat in the ascendancy of Guzman country...

...In 1976 it nickel...

...food alone...

...In any rights...

...But there's no who had worked for fifteen years in a coal processing plant but more laughing going on in this home...

...Balaguer's collusion with G&W was the following: "You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening widely recognized...

...These take for themselves the should produce...

...mineral wealth of our land, as in the case of gold, bauxite, But G&W continues to put profit ahead of need...

...Many of those with children have to pay $3 a month for the services of a day-care center...

...or, as in the case of Gulf & Western in agriculture...

...Now that he the private owners by devoting the bulk of the land to lucrative has been ousted from office, one of his chief partners, Gulf and export crops like sugar, while the population suffers from a Western, may not feel quite as safe-not because Guzman is lack of national self-sufficiency even in basic foodstuffs like radically anti-multinational, but because he may have to make rice and beans...

...Some of G&W's canecutters reported that the comration of Antonio Guzman as the new president...

...I've had my days...

...And he went on to explain that in five to ten more years it will probably 6 July 1979: 399 move again, if the cost of labor in the Dominican Republic came a bit homesick upon noticing a wall placard with words rises...

...In an interview in Oc- and worth by taking from a man his initiative and indepentober, 1977, Francisco A. Micheli, Jr., General Director of dence...

...The company has also sold some of its land to sugar mill...

...seeks the development of the country...

...They, in turn, migrated to the facilities in the rural areas, noting that election year brings cities, looking for jobs which were largely nonexistent...

...School...

...The author calls attention to a of Dominicans have been forced to move to the U.S...

...If such oldsuch donation and went on to denounce the critics of G&W as fashioned rugged individualism can continue to be sold in the "leftists...

...But the ideology is still proheavy-machine operators who have a court action demanding moted by the company for public consumption (and perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay for overtime for the philosopical pacification of any workers who may read work, are organized but have faced reprisals when trying to it-it is in Spanish...

...When she laughed, she seemed self-conscious, as if she felt Whenever one talks with her, one hears the same mes- she were sinning...

...you cannot help the worker by destroying the one On April 1, 1976, in the Dominican daily Listin Diario, it who pays the wages...

...large buildings and avenues seems more useful than the pro- has so many 'illegals.' The Dominicans have to leave their duction of fqod items...

...critics point out, however, that hired by the various factories operating in the "Free Zone" this is nothing more than a business deal for G&W, since the which is under the direction of G& W and which now has a few government makes the initial payment for the land, and then factories belonging to G&W subsidiaries...

...vast widening of land areas dedicated to sugar, charging that G&W, and the native sugar barons, are widely and publicly the company is destroying lands dedicated to food and cattle by accused of various forms of repression against the immigrant changing them over to sugar cane...

...something other than the comforting ideology which G&W While waiting for the public-relations man, this writer be- displays to visitors...

...But according to official sugar from the 1975 harvest at a price of 30 cents a pound but government estimates, a family of 6 needs $31.58 a week for paid the colonos as if it had sold the sugar for much less...

...However, all the governments which we small jobs...

...I feel foolish laughing, now was unemployed...

...they also complain of having to pay 20 cents a day for bus transportation, 50 cents a week for medical coverage, and between 20 and 60 cents a day for lunch in the Free Zone...

...The club noted that the zones which Dominican Republic just after the U.S...

...G& W, G&W is the only buyer in the region...

...An article salaries to Dominicans...

...The hourly wage of 45 cents will buy one can of The social effects of the intensification of sugar production Campbell's soup, or a little more than a quart of milk, or about were described by one social scientist in this way: Originally a half-dozen eggs, or almost two pounds of rice, or about % the large land holdings which were devoted to cattle raising pound of chicken: In interviews the women express their resentment over the low wages but say that they had no other alternatives...

...GULF & WESTERN'S 'STATE WITHIN A STATE' Dominican Republic, Inc...

...In relatively few years the multinaprinted in one of the large Dominican newspapers in late 1977 tionals have taken from our country more than $600 million, characterized the company as "an octopus full of ambition and an amount which would have given employment to many of thirsty for money" which "seeks to create a false image and those Dominicans who have had to move to the U.S...

...a very common phenomenon) "to October, 1977, Vanguardia explained the connection: "It is obtain from the U.S...

...He is the author of Barred from School and Busing (Beacon You want to know what it is...

...whatever he did was right...

...SHE COULD ALWAYS RELY ON HER FATHER The trial of Elaine Harrington THOMAS J. COTTLE Gloria Harrington, Elaine's mother, had never been a happy person...

...Tall, attractive, a person interested in her appearance, ELAINE HARRINGTON, sixteen years old, is a very thin and taciturn, she always looked as if she were about to weep...

...does her mathematics, tries to help me a little around the house, and then, when she hasn't anything better to do she THOMAS J. coTTLE is a Fellow in the Afro-American Center of Wes- goes with her friends and they find cars that aren't locked, or leyan University and Lecturer on Psychology at the Harvard Medical when they're locked, they take that as a challenge to break in...

...In one word: They're nuts with a Press...

...Lincoln, as presented by G&W, teaches demand their rights...

...It seems that G&W sold the a week, the women get about $18.00...

...he charged that one of the top military chiefs received and in the liberal but still capitalistic interests he represents...

...And another went to a Catholic breathing space for the further awakening and better organizaschool in La Romana, where the priest in charge is now a tion of the people, then the writing on the wall may spell moderate defender of G&W...

...Another of G&W's many donations (amounting to Dominican Republic, or force-fed if necessary, then the future a mere fraction of its Dominican profits, of course) will pay for will be secure for the strong, upper-class, rich sugar managethe services of American experts who will launch a study of the ment...

...A few thousand of these immigrants have been workers with long seniority...

...maintain their lifestyle...

...In exchange they took care of the cattle and helped in products we import...

...after thousands of American troops had But the heart of the problem lies in the agricultural policy crushed a revolution...

...was announced that the company is producing more than five They exploit Haitian workers in order to avoid paying better tons a day of lemon extract and juice for export...

...you cannot encourage brotherhood was reported that G&W donated $74,497 in Dominican pesos among men by stimulating class hatred...

...It is a policy which maximizes profits for teed the coveted "safe climate for investment...

...Today, G&W pays In that same year, the president of the PRD accused G&W of a its canecutters about $1.60 per ton (perhaps $5 per day...

...economy...

...It might be a quiet chat with a around me...

...Thus the multinationals both profit from and contribute of wisdom allegedly by Abraham Lincoln, expressing that old to unemployment in their drive for maximum gain...

...bought up one-third of the sugar industry...

...But with the expansion of the sugar mill, more land have had have neglected the peasants...

...As she herself remarked: sage: her desire for revenge...

...ordeal was over, but that was preferable to going to jail...

...But whatever he said, it with the newspapers...

...In an interview the manager of Delta Brush told this writer that his company moved its operation from Puerto Rico in order to get cheaper labor in the Dominican Republic...

...The Dominican People's Movement, a declared 1976 Teobaldo Rosell, top G&W administrator, stated bluntly enemy of G&W and other multinationals, has charged that that the country should continue to intensify the cultivation of Haitians were deported back to their country before being paid cane, since it is this product which sustains the Dominican some bonuses which were due them at the end of the harvest...

...The writer goes on to was used for sugar cane, leaving no room for the peasants, who describe the inadequate educational and transportation had to be chased off the land...

...installed by the U.S...

...you cannot inculcate character maintenance of the Armed Forces...

...the strong...

...In large loan from the U.S...

...you cannot help the (approximately equal to dollars) "for new installations and poor by discouraging the rich...

...American mythology of small enterprise which is obviously Attempts to organize G&W's workers were forcefully re- inapplicable to a giant corporation like G&W with its close pressed under the Balaguer regime...

...And then there's her, my daughter, who worked...

...profit for the owners...

...The election pany has given large amounts of land to top military officers, was not without the familiar intervention of the Dominican thus cementing its relations with these powerful figures (who military on the side of the incumbent, but stern warnings from would have the last word on any intended nationalization of a the Carter administration resulted in grudging respect for the foreign corporation...

...seeking to lure industries out of the U.S., advertises the advanThe company's relations with the "colonos" reached a low tages of the Free Zone, noting that most of the workers are point in 1976 when the colonos' association accused G&W of women and that the hourly wage is 45 cents...

...I can't escape with television, we don't go to the policeman, or testifying before a judge on the two occasions movies anymore, and nobody escapes nothin' by sitting down when Elaine was taken to court...

...It is required that the Zone pay no taxes and no import-export duties to the Domininew owners coptinue to use the land for cane, and of course can government...

...It maintained by the exploitation to which we are subjected by is a shame that the government has to import what we can and the big American companies...

...The government should give "priority country because they, do not have work here, and in large part attention to agricultural production to cover the food needs of that is due to the under-development of our country which is the whole population and perhaps to export what is left over...