“Workers and farmers must fight together” – The Militant

PLANT CITY, Fla. – Dennis Richter, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, speaks with Plant City farmer Karl Butts on Oct. 17. Winds of 100 mph (160 km/h) from the recent storms wreaked havoc on what had been growing agricultural fields just two weeks earlier. “For a family farmer who grows strawberries, this is a risky venture. It costs $10,000 or more per acre to plant the fruit,” Butts told Richter. Family farmers are natural allies of the working class who must fight together against capitalist exploiters, Richter said the next day at a campaign meeting in Miami.