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By DAPHNE McCULLOUGH

LOCAL carpenters and parttime fruit pickers Bob Coles and Tom Green took Sam Snead and Snead Orchards to small claims court in Washington on January 7, and were awarded the $300 in back wages that they were seeking.

Coles and Green had both picked for Snead Orchards during the 1974 apple season. That year the pickers were paid 40 cents a bushel, 35 cents in a weekly paycheck and 5 cents at the end of the season as an inducement for remaining the entire season.

This is a traditional practice in the orchards. If a picker stays

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