The State - News from March 26, 1986

California Rural Legal Assistance charged five growers with providing inadequate living facilities for farm workers. The organization filed a lawsuit in Stockton accusing the defendants of making workers live under an open-air canopy for a time, with no running water, toilet facilities or electricity, said Federico Chavez, an attorney for the group. The suit alleges that workers had to go half a mile to get water and had to carry it in discarded pesticide containers.