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"The Voice of the Farm Worker"

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I(ria NO, 23 IO¢'

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P. O. Box 894, Delano, Calif.

EDITORIAL: PRIDE AND PREJUDICEMHS. JACK RADOVICH, WIFE OF THE PROMINENT DELANO GRAPE GROWER,LAST WEEK EXPRESSED HER SHOCK AND DISGlBT WITH WORKERS W!-!OHAD TURNED AGAINST THEIR BENEVOLENT EMPLOYER" MRS. R.AJ...T)()VICHWAS QUOTED AS SAYING, 'WHY, WE r~;VEN GAVE THEM TURKEYS ATCHRISTMAS. "

CONTRARY TO THE OPINION OF SOME, THE FARM WORKER IS NOT A BEG­GAR, 'NOR IS HE LESS THAN ANY OTHER MAN. EACH M.I\N IS OF EQUALWOf/.TIl, WHETHER HE IS A GROWER, OR A WOHKER. IN THIS VALLEY,THERE ARE 300,000 FARM WORKERS, AND AS IN ALL DEMOCRACIES, THEPEOPLE WILL PREVAIL. OOMEDAY THIS VALLEY WlLL SEE A ,TRUE DEMO­CRACY, AND "DON OOTACO" WILL STAND UP AND SAY "PATRONCITO, IAM AS GOOD AS YOU. "

SOME ARE DOING THIS ALREADY. THEY ARE LEARNING FROM THE STRlKEIN THE GRAPES. FOR EXAMPLE, THERE ARE BRAVE WOMEN LIKE MRS.BEATRICE BUMANGLAG OF EARLIMART WHO RECENTLY DEFIED AN ALL­WHITE JURY OF' HYPOCRITES IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO SEND DOLORESHUERTA TO JAIL; ANOTHER EXAMPL~ IS MANUEL RIVERA, WHO COURAGE­OUSLY LEFT HIS WIFE, HIS FAl\.1[LY AND NEWBORN CHILD, WHILE BEINGSHOVED INTO A POLICE WAGON. HIS ONLY CRIME WAS THAT HE REFUSEDTO STOP SHOUTING "HUELGA", BATTLE CRY OF THE STRIKERS.

TH:ESE ARE PEOPLE WHO HA7E LEARNED ONE THING, AND LEARNED ITWELL: THAT THERE WILL BE NEITHER RESPECT NOR EQUAliTY FOR ANYFARM WORKER WHO DOES NOT STAY OUT OF' THE FIELDS.

THE MEANING OF THIS STRKE IS MUCH MORE THAN JUST A FEW MOREDOLLARS IN WAGES. THE QUESTIONS OF JUSTICE AND EQUALITY HAVEAROUSED THE INTEREST OF HUNDREDS OF PRIESTS, MINISTERS, CIVILRIGHTS WORKERS AND OTHERS. THESE ARE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE, WIDBELIEVE IN WHAT IS RIGHTo THAT IS WHY THEY ARE HERE.

WITH THEIR SUPPORT, THE GROWER WILL SOMEDAY CEASE TO EXPLOITTHE FARM WORKER, AND WE WILL MEET EYE TO EYE ON EQUAL GROUNDONE VOICE WILL BE RAISED AMONGST US AND SAY, "TALK WITH US, ORPICK YOUR O'WN GRAPES." UNTIL THAT DAY, THE FARM WORKER WILLREMAIN A SLAVE, DEPENDENT ON THE GENEROSITY OF THE RADOVICHS'AND THEIR SMALL TURKEYS.

Workers An3d MinistersFaceTheCourtsThisWeek

rHiY JA~mED 44 PEOPLE INTO A POLICE VAN, HARDlY BIGGER THAN A BREAD TRUCK ANDlEFT IT SITTING IN THE ~ID-DAY SUN. EIGHT OF THE PEOPLE ARRESTED WERE MOTHERS,A TOTAL Or 38 CHILDREN WERE LEFT ALONE IN DELANO rOR THREE DAYS, MANY OF THEMTOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS HAPPENING.

TWELVE OF THE STRIKERS ARRESTED WERE ~INISTERS, BROUGHT TO DELANO 8Y THEIR'BELIEr THAT "WHERE THE POOR ARE, CHRIST SHOULD BE--AND IS". ONE OF THEM, REV.WAYNE C. HARTMIRE, IS DIRECTOR Or THE MIGRANT MINI?TRY OF THE CALIrORNIA COUN­CIL Or CHURCHES. HE WAS ROUGHLY SHOVED INTO A POLICE CAR AND TAKEN AWAY.

THEY WERE BROUGHT TO THE BAKERSrIELD JAIL WHERE THE FARM WORKERS, MINISTERS,AND WOMEN WERE RIGIDLY SEARCHED AND BOOKED IN THE STANDARD POLICE MANNER.

THE 44 STAYED THREE DAYS WHILE CESAR CHAVEZ TRIED TO'RAISE THEIR BAIt. MONEY.AT NIGHT, DURING THE VISITING HOURS THEIR CHILDREN TRIED TO SEE THEM, . THEYWERE TURNED AWAY, AND INSTEAD PRAYED AND SANG ON THE STEPS OF THE JAIL.

* * * * * * * *wHY DID IT HAPPEN? THE 44 HAD GONE TO A FIELD IN KERN COUNTY, STOOD AT THEROAD, AND SHOUTED AND YELLED AND WAVED SIGNS AT THE STRIKEBREAKERS WHO WEREPICKING GRAPES. SINCE GROWERS ARE EXEMPTED FROM LABOR LAWS WHICH rORCE EMPLOY­ERS TO TALK. WITH UNIONS, THE STRIKERS HAVE NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE THAN TO PICKETAND DElYlONSTRATE.

SGT. DODO OF THE KERN POLICE HAD WARNED THE STRIKERS NOT TO SHOUT "HUELGA1"(MEANING "STRIKEl'" TO THE WORKERS IN THE FIELD. THEY DEFIED HIS 9RDER BECAUSE

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FLYING PRIESTS URG'E-4ALL TO JOIN STRIKE

Fa~her Kenny and his Airplane

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___________..:..-.__-..:..-,TwO priests who pilot their own air-plane upset some carefully-laid strat­egy by Delano area grape growers lastweeko In their attempts to keep scabshidden from picketers, grape growersin the strike zone have been hiding theirworkers deep inside the fields, far fromthe roado Only the center of the fieldgets picked when they do this, but grow­ers know that scabs working by the roadwill listen to the strikers and many will

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The best way to be sure you will get mento, and Father Arnold Meagher ofyour MALCRIADO is by mall, deliv- Woodland, accompanied by FWA Direc-ered to your home every two weeks. tor, Cesar Chavez, flew down over theSend your name and address to Box fields in their own airplane and broad-894, Delano, Calif., and we will cast a specialloudspealcer ~ppeal tosend you the newspaper to you for strike~br~akersto support the strikeone year. and quit working. Several crews

walked out of the fields after hEaringmessages broadcast over the loudf?pea­kers. Father Kenny, Catholic priestof Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in

I Sacramento, later said, "The sttike isa movement by t~e poor people them­selves to improve their position.WHERE THE P:JOR ARE, CHRISTSHOULD BE, AND IS." Father Kennypromised to returl1 to Delano to helpthe strike, anj said that. he has othersurprises in store for the growers.

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THE GREAT MASS

FOR ALL FARM WORKERS

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"'Our Catholic Church is I:1volved"headlined the Central Cali.~ornia Reg­ister, official journal of the CatholicChurch in Central California, in wri­ting ab ut the great strike in the gra­pes. nd as Churches throughout thecountry became increasingly involvedin this fight for decent wages andhuman dignity and justice, the strik­ing farm workers in Delano held aMass to thank the Lord for His bles­sings and to ask for strength and helpin the weeks to come.

The mass was held outdoors at Ellin­gton Par..lf. in Delano, and over 400'farm workers, plus many other Cath­olics and others supporting the strikeattended the service. The mass was held in honor of St. Joseph the Laborer,and Father 'Ephrim Neri of St. John's Catholic Cathedral in Fresno, and Chaplin.of the Guadalupena Federation, led the service. The people offered thanks thatthe eight mothers arrested the previous week by Kern County Police were ahle

to attend the mass.Friends of farm workersfrom all over the countyhad contributed m~mey

to help bail them out ofjail. Father Neri gavea moving prayer, remin­ding the .people that"Christ the Laborer,Christ who was poorlike you" would heedthe prayers of the work­ers, and 'asked them tohave love and charity intheir hearts for the grow-ers, in spite of what thegrowers had done. Otherclergy participating in­cluded Father AnthonySoto and Father ThomasFry of San Jose•

He was arrested by Sgto Dodd of t..heKern County Police when he refusedto obey the demands of the Midstateforeman that he stop t..he readingo Thecharge was "disturbing the peace"oRevo Havens, who is from the FirstChristian Church of Visalia, was for­ced to spend Sunday in jailo

The "definition of a strike=breaker" isamong the writings of the famous wri­ter, Jack London, and is a strong andaccurate description of the people whoare waIking over the backs of theirbrothers out of ignorance or greedoIt has appeared several times in thismagazineo

.Prominent San Francisco lawyers haveasked to' defend Revo Havens as theircontribution to the causeo Havens hasbeen helping the Farm Workers Assoc­iation sip.ce the first day of the strikeo

This was the first in a wa7e of arrestswhich failed to stop mass. picketingoThe strikers know that they are notbreaking the law and are not afraid of'this kind of persecutiono

se/l~A "scab" is to his trade what a traitoris to his country. He is the first totake advantage of any benefit securedby united action, and never contribute:anything toward its achievement. H~

is used during a struggle to defeat hISfellow-workmen, and though coddledfor the time being by his employer hserves, wren peace is .restored he iscast out, shunned by hIS employer,his fellow-w?rkmen, and the wholehuman family.

Mrs.HuertaIs Innocent

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REV. HAVENS & rAMILYRevo Dave Havens will go on trialNovember 16 fo: reading aloud the"definition of a strike-breaker" fromEl Malcriado to scabs at the edge of aMidstate Coo vineyard last montho

TRIAL COMES SOONFOR JAILED MINISTER

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THE PEOPLE WIN!Housing Official Weeps When Court Rules

Rental Agreement is IIlegall

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Rent strikers in Tulare County FarmLabor Camps won an unexpected vic­tory last week when Judge Paul Eymanagr ed that the rent increases impos­ed on the camps were illegal.In a trial in Visalia, the Judge decreedthat the Tulare County Housing Author­ity could not make Linnell tenants payextra rent, which the Housing Author­ity has illegally been trying to collectsince last June. H~ppy Linnell tenantsrepresented by Manuel Ponce andJohn and Daniel Delgado were defendedby San Francisco lawyers James Hern­don and Carlos LaRoche. They agreedto hand over their back rent and payat the old rent of $18 for the first cab­in and $5 for each additional cabin.The rent strike began six long monthsago, when the. Tulare County HousingAuthority tried to raise rents on thetin shacks of Linnell and WoodvilleCamps to $25 a cabin. Tenants in thetwo camps, aided by the Farm Work­ers Association, organized ProtestCommittees and refused to pay anyrent to the Housing Auth<i>l"ity untilrents were lowered back to the oldlevel.Instead, they pald into a TrustFundheld in the bank. The Housing Autho­rity, which had accumulated a$120, 000 profit from its· poor tenantsin 'recent years, was hoping to makeeven bigger profits. Then they sudden­ly began to lose money. By Septemberthey had lost over $7, 000, while theTenants' Trust Fund had its thousandsof dollars safely in the bank.A great 7-mile march was held inJuly to publicize the horrible conditi­ons of the camps and the injustice of

Photo:HATED OF­FICIAL OFHOUSLN'GAUT~ORITY

the rent increase. In August, CountyHealth and Building Inspectors inves­tigated the camps and said that thetin shacks were not fit for human hab­itation at any price. The HousingAuthority was officially condemnedfor many violations of the law, andfor operation in an illegal manner.

But though they were convicted ofthese crimes,' the Housing Authoritybosses hoped that they could get thecourts to help them evict the rentprotestors. Ferris Sherman, EarlRouse, their fat lawyers and the richfarmers on the Housing Commissionwere thus shocked when Judge Eymanbrought them to justice instead, andupheld the rent strike.

Though tenants have agreed to paytheir rents at the old level, they havewarned the Housing Authority to fixthe horrible conditions in the campsor face a new protest. The CountyBoard of Supervisors has also deman­ded a,~tion, setting Six months as thedeadline for a plan or start on build#­ing better housing. Plans for courtactions in bringing charges of crimi­nal negligence against the HousingAuthority are also being cmsidered.

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The Answer~ "HUELGAI HUELGAIHUELGAI HUELGA! HUELGAI"The strikers did not moveo

"Get in that car, you"o.'Sgt. Dodd shoves Rev.Hartmire. None of the 'strikers resisted ar­rest.

The result~ Police suppressionoSome observers said it was Miss­issi i all over againo

IL FOR SHOUTING ','HUELGA"!

The words crackled over the policeloudspea\:er: "THIS IS AN UNLAW­FUL ASSEMBLYo I ORDE;R YOUTO DISPERSE"

THE DAY THEY TOOK THEM TO J(CONTINUED fROM PAGE THRE~)

IT WAS ILLEGAL AND UNJUST. THE 44 WERE WILLING TO RISK IMPRISONMENT TO PREVENTTHE GROWERS fROM USING THE POLICE AS THEIR TOOLS. BUT THE POLICE WENT ALL THEWAY AND TOOK THEM IN. THE CHARGEs UNLAWfUL ASSEMBLY.

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EL MALCRIADO SPYS THAT If SGT. DODD TRIES TO JUSTIfY HIS ACTIONS BY SAYING THATA "RIOT SITUATION" EXISTED AT THE F'IELD, THAT THEN SGT. DODD IS A VICIOUS LIAR.If HE SAYS THIS IN A COURT, THEN HE IS A PERJURER.

THE TRIALS or THE 44 WILL BE MEMORABLE. THE TRIALS WILL SHOW HOW STRONG fARMWORKER~ C~N BE WHEN THEY KNO~ THEY AAE RIGHT. THEY WILL SHOw THAT UNLIMITEDOUTSIDE HELP IS AVAILABLE. THEY WILL SHO~ THAT THE SYSTEM or fARMING INCALIrORNIA IN 1965 BELONGS IN THE DARK AGES. THEY lA/ILL SHOW THE HIDDEN PICTUREor BRUTAL PREJUDICE AGAINST THE MEXICAN AND fILIPINO IN CALIfORNIA.

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'HJ~ '7kt 'PeIJ!dt ,4"'t7~.Dear Friends:

The grape pickers of the San JoaquinValley were contented with what theyhad until they read your worthlessfalsity of a magazine. The years thatthe ranchers took to make a name forthemselves were filled with heartacheand disaster. But they did not giveup because they are truly great men.

Take a long look at yourselves. Canyou actually call yourselves men?

Signed,"Who Am I Hurting?"Delano, California

Dear Editor:

Thank you for your letter authoriz­ing me to represent the NationalFarm Workers Association in any~atters pertaining to legislative ac­tivities. I read Father Vizzard"swonderful letter in "EI Malcriado"last week and I would like to saywith Fat her Vizzar~ that if I couldI'd be on the picket line myself withyour workers. I will continue to doall that I can to aid you here inWashington. Viva La Causa!

Sincerelv in Christ the Worker,Father Victor SalandiniWashinF;to~D. C.

Father Salandini

Dear Editor:

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First I will tell yo.\1 that your maga­zine, paper, news sheet, whateverit is, does not have one bit of classin it. Why did you make your lastedition such a big mess? I wouldbe able to bring dozens of errors tolight for you, but it would be betterthat I say no more.

AnonymousDelano, Calif.

EL MALCRIADO SAYS: We areproud thafour errors are in the sp­elling and not in the facts. Perhapswhen we print our next Spanish edi­tion, we will ask for your brilliantassistance in correcting our spellingbut we don't pay very well, friend.

E1 Malcriado Says:

First, the "Worthless Falsity of aMagazine" has grown so that after onlyten months of life. its circulation isover three times that of the unmention­able newspaper on the other side ofthis town, which is 50 years old.

Second, your rancher friends can savethemselves a final heartache and dis­aster by bargaining over the table in 9

peaceable manner with these strikerswho will never give up, instead of by espraying them with sulpher and tryingto frighten them with vicious dogs.We have little doubt as to who the realmen in this ccnflict are.

Dear Editor:

Please publish the following:I say to all the farm workers, don'twork for the snakes who are trying tobring people to work in the grapes ofthe strike area. They just want youto slave over the 'hot and dirty daywhile they are home drinking mixeddrinks with the rancher. Let's allstick together and we will win thisStrike.

(The following is part of a letter aD­pearing in the Central California R~g­ister. )

Dear Editor:

I :,"ead where the churches are sendingfood down to Delano••• how disgusting!I say, let the loafers starve. > Thinkhow much their pay checks woold be,even at 75~ an hour!

S~gned: "A Christian"Fresno, California

To the thousandswho have helped.j

1 would be very grateful if you could ,send me subscriptions in both the Eng-'....---------------..Ush and Spanish editions of EI Mal~

criado. I enclose $4."A housewife and admirer of

EI Malcriado"Delano, California

simply, our grateful thanks

Dear Editor:

I am one of the "outside agitatorsfrom San Francisco" mentioned in anewspaper article, "Grapes of Wrathin Delano"••• We came to know CesarChavez personally, to share 'his la­bors, to participate in his heroicefforts.to obtain for his people a de­cent living wage••• Cesar Chavez isnot only a highly intelligent andgifted organizer, but he is also ahumble and deeply spiritual Christianleader with a cause that is just.Under his leadership the Valley GrapeStrike is one of the most sigriificantbreakthroughs for social justice inCalifornia's long history.

Mother Mary Xavier, O. S, U.Novato, California

In the long fight ahead ...we beg you

to remember us.

Cesar Chavez,director

NationalFarm Workers

Assoc iation

"Deberia Tener Verguenza?" "Have You No Shame?"

Mag labas cayo, cabayan!Come out of there, countrymm!

Owag cayo mag trabajo !Donit anyone work here I

HELP US 1

GET OUT 1

STRIKE!

COME OUT 1

COME HERE 1

"Don't Work Here'

AYUDENOSI

VENGANSE!

Spanish~

HUELGA!

AFUERAI

SALGANSE!

"No Trabaje Aqui!"

Fi1ipino~ (Tagalog)

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'WWll©W I @l]!®'Wrnl]!~ l1rn~rnThe following are phrases and translations that thestrikers use to call the Scabs. When Scabs are closeenough to talk to, picketers explain the strike to themand give them leaflets and "EI Malcriadol'l to read.

Auto mechanic, full time volunteer,to work on and repair strikersi carsBring tools. Food, a roof, and lots'Of work is all we can offer.

Farm Workers Assn. -Delano

MEMO TO HAGEN, MURPHY,KUCHEL AND COMPANY

I-----W-=---A---------; ..... "In the War on Poverty we'reNTED! not afraid of pickets, we expect them.

In the Peace Corps our communitydevelopment projects depend on or­ganizers--agitators if you wi1I--towork with local leaders in organizingthe poor and the outcasts. "

Sargent Shriver, directorOffice of Economic

Opportuhity, Washington, D. C.

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,A Union can be a bundred different things. In Spain the unions are branches ofthe governmEnt designed to keep the people in slavery; in Mexico they are astrong political force which does not concern itself too much with the people; inSan Francisco they are a pqtent force which makes it possible for commonlaborers to get $5.00 an hour; in Salinas--in one case at least-=they are ameans for racketeers to get rich at the e}.-pense of the people. In New York, orSacramento, or San Diego they may be--and usually are-=t.ite one way that theworking people can have a decent life.

WHAT IS OUR UNION?The National Farm Workers Association is an independent membership organiz=ation started three years ago by Cesar Chavez, in Delano, California. Anyfarm worker may become a member and obtain certain free services in exchangefor a m,Onthly membership due.

WHY DO THEY CALL IT A ,MOVEMENT?It is a movement, because it looks toward the day when every farm worker inCalifornia: Mexican, Filipino, Negro, Puerto Rican, or Anglo will have a liv­ing wage and a position of dignity. It is an idea, an ideal, and a challenge.' Tothe growers, it is a threat and a thing to be feared and respected.

WHAT IS THE PLAN FOR VICTORY?It is simple. If one worker demanded more money, the grower would fire him

and hire another Inan, a little more hungry, to work for the low wage. But ifhundreds of workers get together behind one leader the leader can say" "We willall qq1t and' no Ol1e will pick your crop until you pay a decent wage." Therewould be no harvest without the workers to pick the crop. The growers dependon us, and this is our strength. Working together so that all will benefit, thisis our strategy, this is a union.

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE?There have been people who have gone before us and shown us the way. In Penn­sylvania the miners were organized only after long and bitter struggles lastingfor years. Today they will tell you that it was worth it, because they know thateven though many of them were foreign born--they know that they are the realmen of America, who had the courage to shape their own future.

WHAT CAN WE DO NOW?

The 'battle today is the strike in the grapes. Before anyone can join our strikehe must have enough strength of character so that he can put the needs of allthe people above his own greed and selfishness.

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Food,Prayers And Money

Keep The Strike StrongTons of food continued to pour into thestrike areao &Jme came from peoplewith good jobs in San Francisco, Sac­ramento, Los Angeles and San JoseoOther donations came from farmworkers outside the strike areao

·PARLIER--The newspaper of Parlier,"En Nuestra Colonia", appealed forfood for the strikerso Several hund-

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red Padier families made contribu-tions which were sent to Delanoo Whenthe strike is won, the farm workers ofDelano will help the workers of Par­lier in their strike against injustice,discrimination and low wages.. Thatday is not far offo

Outstanding or unusual gifts includedthe following:***Two cars***One station wagon***A movie about the Farm WorkersAssociation***One ton of rice***189 shoes***3, 250 cans of peaches, corn andspagettio***8 cubic yards of collard greens***183 one dollar gifts***One $300 gift***Twenty dollars worth of photogra­phic paper***1, 000 "Huelga" buttons***A garage to store food and clothing***Felipe Navarro of McFarland ha.3given $5, $10, or $12 every week sincethe strike begano He works in a win­eryo***Santos Chapa of Delano, who worksas an irrigator 011 a cotton farm hasgiven donations every week, some-:times as much as $300 He ha3 eightchildreno***Ted Natera, a Delano gardener hasgiven a portion of his wages everyweeko

-***Farm workers from Exeter, Lind-say and Farmersville raised over $80to aid the strikerso***Many, many more who gave morethan they could a::ford, because theyunderstand the maming of our cause.

This huge truckload of food ar­rived in Delano on November 3from Los Angeles, a gift of Team­sters, AFL-CIO, and others.

A portion of the flood of food com-'ing into Delano to sustain thestrike, a symbol of the strengthand determination of people fromeverywhere to win the Strike inthe Grapeso

14UNITED WE STAND"For the first time in history, Filipinos, Mexican-Aznerica~1s, Puerto Ricans,Negroes, and Anglos are all working together to win a strike. This is breauseall realize that the only way for the workers to winagainst the rich ranchers is for everyone to sticktogeth~r. The ranchers have tired to divide the

orkers, but the unity of all workers has nev­er been stronger.

The Filipinos of the AWOC Union under the fineeaciership of Larry Itliong and Ben Gines, were

e first to go on strike. Cesar Chavez, Direc­tor of the National Farm Workers Association andleader of the Mexican and Puerto Rican farm workers in the Valley, 'J !'I)mis e dfull cooperation with the strike from the first day. And within a week he hadsent out the call for the great meeting of September 16, at which over 1000 FWAfamilies voted to go on strike themselves. Since then, Chavez, Itliong, andGines have perfected the smooth-running cooperation which has carried thislUstoric united effort through eight long weeks of struggle.

Though no grower has yet agreed to sit down and discuss fair wages for the. workers, the two unions, already planning for the my of victory, have set upprocedures for joint bargaining. AU joined together for the great march ofse mber 26 and the later strike rallies at Filipino Hall. The unions cooperatein eating scab crews who are working nEar roads, and in setting up pickets tobreak the crews. Picket crews have been "integrated" since the first days ofthe strike, and Filipinos and Mexicans have stood together under attacks of thegrowers and persecution by police. They have gone to jail together for the sameunjust charges.

The unions share all "intelligence reports" (information brought in by spies) •And since many Filipinos lived in the growers' camps for years and know thegeography of ranches so well, they are especially effective in establishingcontact with newly imported scab crews, some of which are Virtually held cap­tive in these camps. Almost all of those working for the strike have the finestaff at Filipino Ilan to t.Jmnk for daily lunches.

A sign at Filipino Hall says, "In Unity there is Strength." This is the strengthof the Great Grape Strike.

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