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BOMB BLAST AT FORTY ACRESDELANO, California -- A bomb blast shook

the Forty Acres at 6: 20 p. m. January 17, blowinga three - foot hole in the 18-inch", steel­reinforced adobe walls of the gasoline stationthere. The blast was so powerful it smashedone auto into another and blew out windowsin a neighboring house 100 yards away.

"The explosion was so powerful we thoughtthe bomb had gone off in our offices," saidUnion Vice- President Philip Vera Cruz, who was

a t the hiring hall, about 100 yards from theblast. The explosion also shook the clinicbuilding which is from ISO to 200 yards fromthe gasoline station. It is agreed that if any­one had been at the station, death would haveresulted.

It is not yet known who set off the bomb orand it is speculated that the bomb was madeup of a high-powered dynamite. Howevertechnical experts from the Kern County She-

riff's -Department and from the Alcohol, To­bacco and Firearms Division of the U. S. Trea­sury are investigating the bombing.

Richard Chavez, Director of Union FieldOffices, said "We are urging Union members _not to be alarmed. The investigation intothe bombing is continuing "and we will havemore details for you in the next issue ofEL MALCRIADO:'

YEAR OF THE BOYCOTT

GREETINGS FROM OURARAB BROTHERS

The folloWing is a message from an Arabbrother who works for Elmco Vineyards inthe Porterville area:'

In behalf of all of my Arab brothers whoare in the photo above, I want to wish all ofyou a prosperous new year, that it may bea better year' for all of us.

We also want all to know how happy we arethat Mohsin Saleh Hussen was elected to repre­sent Arab farm workers in the Terra Bellaarea.

We also want to say that we are very happyto be members of the United Farm Workersbecause we are learning that the Union protectsus and gives us benefits. We are ready to fightand defend' our: Union and our greatest desireis that all farm workers organize an becomemembers of our Union so that they too mayenjoy protection and benefits.VIVA LA HUELGA, Mansoor YahyaAli Morshed

Photo: Jesus Martinez

together we will do strikes and boycotts, whichare the best schools our children can have."

And during the demonstration in Burlingame amother ~old her child, who was frightened bythe pollce; "You have to take it, dear, someday you'll have to run the Union and you mustbe strong."

Women and children, who have endured so muchsuffering, know that the lives of migrant farmworkers have been a long march of thousands ofmiles of hardships to escape hunger. But theyalso know that we still have to march thousandsof miles more, but this time, to win our rightsand our liberation.

So there they go, women and children, toge­ther with men, bringing their. enthusiasm andcourage to press onward toward the finalvictory in a movement in which, as the Mexicansaying goes, nthose who are willing cando more than those who can."

But, notwithstanding all this,and all these,

~ t is today the most vitaland potential power

this planet has ever known,and its historic mission

of emancipating the workers of the worldfrom the thralldom of the ages

is as certain of ultimate realizationas the setting of the sun.

--Eugene V. Debs

THOl.XJHT FOR THENEW YEAR .

many an organizer got shotand got killedto build this great unionfor you and for me.

Brothers, auto workers,brothers at the mills,you cross all themountains, you crossall the hills.

To be a farm workeryou have to be toughto work in the rain,to work in the frost.

To early in the morningyou have to wake upand work 16 hours withoutovertime.

My sisters and brotherswill never give upmy sisters and brothers

. is -time to wake up.

(Sent by Richard B. & Jean Tussey)

Ten thousand timeshas the labor movement stumbledand fallen and bruised itself,

and , risen again;been seized by the throat and choked

into insensibility;enjo~ned by courts,

assaulted by thugs,charged by the militia,shot down by regulars,

tr aduced by the pres s,frowned upon by public opinion.deceived by politicians,threatened by priests,

repudiated by renegades,preyed upon by grafters,infested by spies,deserted -by cowards,betrayed by traitors,bled by leeches,

and sold out by leaders.

Last week farm worker women and childrenwrote a new glorious page in the history 'of ourmovement.

Numbering about 500, they went to the veryheart of the Teamsters union in Burlingame, totell its so-called union leaders that farmworkers are not afraid of them and that farmworkers want the United Farm Workers.

Our sisters in the Union do theirpart on the frontlines of our struggles becausewithout the liberation of w men, a movement isnot really a movement. The same is true withour children.

In its struggle for justice, the +arm workerfamily is indivi ible. The other day, acustomer in Santa Mar1a was upset becau e farmworker children were on the picketline. One ofthe farm workers to1d the r.u stamer: "Our ent irefamilies are force to work in the fields and

Editorial

2 EL MALCRIADO January 26,1973

LEITER FROM FLORIDA

by Gabriel L. Valencia

I work at the farmthe most of my lifeand I sacrificemy kids and my wife

When I was a kid mydream was a Unionbut a strong Union,a Union like this

ANTHEM OF THEFARM WoRKER

Dep.r Fellow Workers:You wrote tOo me asking if I had lost interest.

,No I haven't, but I appear to be in a sectionof Florida where your members do not work.Oranges and grapefruit are grown here

I want to help as much as I can, but I amretired on a pension, am developing accordingto an oculist a cataract and so do not drive.We live six miles out of the town of Melbourne.

If there are any people in my area workingwith you please give them my name and phonenumber. I attended the meeting of ConcernedDemocrats last month and met two young menfrom the Miami area backing you and wearingthe Black Eagle pin. They may be at tomorrow'smeeting, also. I would like to have a pin•.

I feel that boyocuing compares with re­fraining from crossing picket lines. Also,

. I feel that your efforts at preventing excessiveuse lof insecticides and keeping people frombeing sprayed with them are beneficial to societyas a whole.

I am enclosing five dollars as a contribution.P lease send me two or three copies of the cur­rent issue of your paper. I would also like alist of contributors to the Republican Cam­paign Fund so that I can boycott them also.I think it is unlawful for corporations to socontribute.

May you all have a happy new year,Rose Moore, member of Chicago Teachers'Union and member of Hyde Park Co-op.West Melbourne, Florida

Report, Photos: jesus Guadalupe VarelaRoberto Flores-Gonzalez, a member of

Teacher Corps Cycle 7 in Salinas, has beendismissed from Alisal High School, the schoolwhere he was serving his internship. Thedismissal was made known to RobertoDecember 19, conveniently after the rest ofthe interns and teachers had left for Christmasvacations.

Chicano students at the school belIeve Robertowas dismissed because he attempted to offeran alternative method to educate, which is basedon the needs of the student and his community.- The administration says the reason for hisdismissal is that Roberto failed to report anarrest on his application to the Teacher Corps.But Roberto says that he had been informedat the time he was applying that "my recordwas not serious and that I did not have to includeit in my application."

Roberto has been arrested several timeswhile demonstrating against racism and social~~justiC~. . It is' unfortunate he says, that

the prIncIples of Teacher Corps are in favorof i~stitutional change, self-pacing, instruction,flexible scheduling, individualized instructionand many other good things but unfortunatelythe Directors are for themselves. They haveno other principle."

A petitiondrive by students and some parentshas started to get Roberto Flores reinstated.

Roberto Flores is a Union suppcrter wholast April marched on Union picket lines duringa conflict with Mel Finerman, a grower inOxnard. He carried a sign saying: "Longlive justice."

CAR CARAVANOn Thursday, january 4, farm workers in

the Imperial Valley staged a car caravan aroundthe Valley to dramatize to their grower neigh­bors they are ready to fight for their rightto have their own union.

(More than 65 cars and over 200 flag-wavingworkers participated in the procession whichmade its way from Calexico through H~ltville,Brawley, EI Centro and back to Calexico in thelate afternoon and early evening.

The spirited caravan passed by the ware­houses of the most notorious scab companiesin the area--Bud Antle and D'Arrigo Brothers.

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Report, photos: Marie Cain .

Santa Maria -- Cesar Chavez, GeneralDirector of the United Farm Workers, spokein Santa Maria january' 8 to an overflow·crowdat Slnion headquarters on West Main Street.

Cesar called for continual observance of theprinciples of non-violence and told the groupof Mahatma Ghandi's successful, non-violentfight to free India from British ,rule earlierin this century.

, 'With solidarity within the Union, such aswe see here tonight, there's no human forcethat can destroy us," Cesar said.

Report, photos: Marie Cain

Santa Maria, California -- jordano's Marketsa chain of .supermarkets in Santa Barbara andSan Luis Obispo Counties, double-crossed theUn~ted Farm Workers by first agreeing to carryUnIOn lettuce, and then saying no such agreementwas possible.

According to Santa Maria Union officials. 'rep:esentatlves of the Union met with jordano' s

aSSIstant manager and produce manager in theSanta Maria store.

The store' representatives agreed to carryonly United Farm Worker lettuce, and assuredthe Union representatives that the whole chainwould also carry only the Union's lettuce.

But,. when the store's stock was checked bythe UnIon a few days later Union representativesdiscove.red that half the lettuce supply wasnon-UnIon.

o In a talk with the store manager, who was notIn ~e store during the original negotiations, theUnIOn representatives were told that the chaincould "not possibly agree to carry only UnitedFarm Worker Union lettuce."Wi~in five minutes after the Union repre­

sentatlves left the market, a United FarmWorkers picket line was established at the mar­ket.

The picket line has disrupted the flow ofcustomers into jordano's market in~ Santa Mariaan~ will continue "till the store begins carryingUnited ~arm Worker Union lettuce," accordingto P aullno Pacheco, head of the Union officein Santa Maria. .

JORDANa'S DOURLE-CROSS

CELEBRATION CARAVANReport, photos: Marie Cain

Santa Maria, California -- 1\venty five carscarrying United Farm Worker members and sup­porters formed a "Caravana de Celebracion"Wednesday (january 3) in the Santa Marraand Arroyo Grande Valleys.

Paulino Pacheco, head of the Santa MariaUnion office rode in the lead car using a loud­speaker to tell the people about the recent de­cision of the California state Supreme Courtupholding the right of the union to picket, boy­cott and organize those fields where growers andother unions have made sweetheart deals.

The caravan formed at the Santa Maria officeand begC\ll its tour by circling the local Teams­ter office. The cars, each displaying signs ap­plauding the court decision or reflecting thecampesinos' opinion of the Teamster Union flewbright red and black union flags as they p~ssedthrough Santa Maria, Guadalupe and the ArroyoGrande Valley.

Many persons gave shouts or other signs ofapproval as the caravan passed by. '

"The spirit in Santa Maria is fantasticallygood. Weare going to win our battle withthe growers because we have the hearts of theworkers, " Paulino Pacheco said.

CE~R IN ~~rrA ML\RIA

JOSE C. REYES: "I want to let you know~ow the growers treat us in this valley. Fourumes my sons and I have been fired for re­fusing to sign with the Teamsters. We havegone through very difficult years since 1970.But we strikers want the union of Cesar Chavezthe United Farm Workers, the true union fo;farm workers."

MIGUEL IBARRA, strike captain: Ifl virtuallylive on bread and water, but I continue withLa Causa 100 percent. I am ready at any timeto fight any grower, any labor contractor•••• "

THE PEoPLE SPEAK OlIT

MANUEL MAGANA: " •••We hope to continueorganizing and fighting to see if we can changethe educational system in this valley, which isvery, very poor to say ~he least. We also hopewe ~an give our children a better life so theywon t have to suffer so much to earn theirdaily bread."

JORDANa'S PICKETED

MIGUEL CANAS: ..... The trials have beenso hard, our circumstances has been many timeste.rrible. W. e .have been black balled for beingwith the United Farm Workers--we cannot findwork, anywhere. It is a kind of persecution. Ican't ask the government for help, I can'tget welfare, I can't get medi care••••Some­times I'll get a job, but then I'm discoveredby some strikebreaker who easily gets mefired. But I think we are made of specialmaterial, the kind of stuff individuals are madeof who are lovers of freedom••••1 think we arenow really on the road to a new life and ourpeople has gained much experience in the heatof battle•••• "

Santa Marra, California -- A special farmworker mass, ending the day's picketing, wascelebrated january 7 on the parking lot ofjordano's, a local supermarket chain that re­fuses to stop selling non-Union lettuce.

Starting at 10 a. m. more than 50 farm workerchildren marched on the picket line with theirpicket signs and huelga flags, while theirparents talked to consumers in attempt toget them. not to shop at jordanos. Amongthose havmg the most success in turning awaycustromers were Alfredo Atie and Miguel Canas.They turned away every customer they talked to.

At 2: 30 pm mass was celebrated on an altarset up on the flatbed of a truck in order' togive thanks for the recent decision renderedbr the California Supreme Court affirming therIght of farm workers to organize their ownUnion. During the mass, Paulino Pacheco,director of the Union in Santa Marra, declared:"We must wage a serious and effective boyCottand tell every customer what jordanos isdoing against the interests of farm workers.We must tell them that even though the let­tuces is wrapped in what appear to be verybeautiful leaves, what is really wrapped in­side are the injustices suffered by farm workers.

4 EL MALCRIADO January 26.1973 YEAR OF YHR BOYCOTT

"EL CU~IL"

Here we see Tony Orendain, Union Treasurerand Director of the Union in Texas, in frontof liE I Cuhamil" where the central officesof the"Uni~n.will be located in the "Y-alleyoftears (RIO Grande Valley). The first" farmworker meeting to be held in ' 'EI Cahumil"took place in November. Between 450 to 500farm workers were present.

Texas

r'lL\R IA CALDES DIESOur sister, Marra Caldes, died early this

month after a long strl,lggle with caner. •S?e was the daughter of Ted Caldes, a regionaldIrector for the AFL-CIO, who is active ~ inhelping the Union in Arizona (as was Marra)and is one of our strongest supporters.

The Caldes family is a beautiful family whosecloseness to the Arizona staff has meant muchin terms of moral support. Union GeneralDirector Cesar Chavez sent the family the fol­lOWing telegram:

Marra was as beautiful to know as she wasto see. In so short a life Maria won our ad­miration and love. Her deep, self-sacrificingdevotion to justice and human dignity was andwill always remain a source of inspiration toall of us. Our sorrow, as surely yours toois tempered by our knowledge that Marra is'now with God, the same God who through Jesussaid, "You· who are blessed by my Father,come. Come and receive the kingdom whichhas been prepared for you ever since thecreation of the world." Peace and Justice,Cesar.

The opposition's anti-recall'strategist, SteveShadegg, has already prepared television com­mercials smearing Cesar Chavez and the UnitedFarm Workers as anti-farm worker, usingslogans similar to those used by the growers inthe Proposition 22 battle in California

I As had been expected by Jerry and hisstaff, the Phoenix daily newspapers, a mono­poly. owned by right-wing publisher EugenePullIam, have cooperated with Shadegg by at­tacking the Union in their coverage of theelection and the Union.

Jerry is relying on the people and grass-roots. 0 ~~anizi~g to get his message across. Alongh~s. walkIn~ t::ail Jerry is leaving behind ordinaryCitIzens WIllIng to work for a sincere candidatewho cares about the business of people ratherthan merely the people of business.

ArizonaJERRY STILL WALKING

Report by Barry Kirschner

Jerry Pollock, the man who will oppose JackWilliams in the upcoming recall election inArizona has concluded his first two weeks ofwalking the state in an attempt to hear the voicesof rural Arizona.

Jerry's -feet have taken him well over '200miles in the walk that began in Phoenix. Hewill go to the Mexican border and finish inTucson. So far, Jerry's walk has taken.him through sometimes desolate regions whereseeing a cactus is a treat.

In Superior , Arizona, Clyde McEnderfar toldthe candidate, "Apparently you are a states­man and not a politician, and we have too manypoliticians. If you get elected governor thatwill be good because we need someone ~ho isa person, a real human being." Words likethese, says Jerry, have greatly encouraged himand inspired him to appreciate even his lone­liest and least confortable moments.

Report, photos: Jesus H. Martinez

The above photo was taken a few momentsafter our brother, Mohsin Saleb Hussen, who isan Arab, was elected by the mayority of theworkers at Elmco Vineyards to represent themat the grape pickers meeting in La Paz Jan. 6'

The follOWing are the words of Mohsin SalehHussen, first in English and then in Arabic:

I want to let know all UFW members and toall my Arab brothers tliat I was appointed byMexican and Arab Elmco farm workers to cometo La Paz, the UFW's central offices, as Arabdelegates from the Terra Bella area.

I want to make at this time, a commitmentto all of my brothers, that I will do all I canto bring you all information available that canhelp us to enforce our farm worker Union.

.Because it is now the right time to get ourmInds and hearts together so in a short futurewe can all be prepared to defend our Unionfrom those that want to destroy our Union.

VIVA LA HUELGA, Mohsin Saleh Hussen

Report, photos: Teresa Amezcua

On January 3 our leader , Cesar Chavezcame to the Salinas Valley to join our carcaravan of 400 cars that went from Salinasto King City passing through Soledad and Green­field.

There was a meeting and press conferencein S~linas and then in Soledad where a greatmUltlt~de of people were waiting, anxious tose,e Cesar. (See photos) During that meetingCesar talked about the cooperation that wasneeded to do an action at the Teamster head­quarters near San Francisco.

After the meeting, the caravan continued toGreenfield and King City , where we wentthrough the town's main street.

FAMILIES FIGHT EVICTION

CESAR JOINS CARAVAN

Report, photos: Jesus Guadalupe Varela

Salinas, California -- Ever since they wereevicted from their homes at the La Posadatrailer camp, the families of "La Nueva Po­s ada" have been living at the McCullum LaborCamp, which they were able to obtain fromMonterrey County with the understanding thatthey could stay at the camp until they foundadequate housing.

But now they find themselves face to facewith a new threat of eviction by order of thecounty. Federal housing agencies have refusedto help the families build their own homes orto at least find some solution to their ~ousing

problem. The families say: I,And now theywant to throw us out into the street J·ustb ' ,ecause they don t have four-bedroom housesfo: the large families that are left. TheythInk that by thrOWing us out into the streetthey are goJng to solve the problem."

The families of La Nueva Posada have star­ted a petition drive to pressure the countynot to act on its eviction threat.

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Rev Eyster said the Interfaith Committee'screation of a consumer fraud unit was promptedby numerous complaints against' major areasupermarket chains. "Since 1970, the InterfaithCommittee has dealt with the supermarketindustry regarding the farm workers strugglefor fair pIa and justice. This has broughtus into the whole arena of the industry'sattitudes towards poor people and other con­sumers."

A national boycott of Safeway was recentlystarted by the Union because Safeway, a longtime foe of farm workers, refuses to stopselling non-Union lettuce•.

Cesar WinsSupport for

Guild BoycottMILW AUKEE, Wisconsin--Union General Di­

rector Cesar Chavez won support here January12 from Milwaukee Mayor Maier and severallabor 'unions for the boycott against Guild pro­ducts.

Later, at a rally at the University of Wis­consin, Milwaukee, about 2,000 persons cheeredCesar, Who was accompanied by 50 ButtesGas & Oil strikers. Buttes Gas & Oil Co.,which also controls Guild Wineries and Dis­tillaries, is being struck and boycotted by theUnion because it refuses to negotiate with itsworkers, Cesar told the crowd.

Cesar said the Buttes Gas & Oil strikers·were concentrating their efforts in Wisconsinbecause the state consumes 25% of all the

.brandy in the United States, 1.2 million casesa year, much of it from Guild. He said thatsurveys of store counters showed that the boy­cott was effective.

Raymond Majerus, regional director of theUnited Auto Workers, announced that the Wis­consi.n segment of the union would give finicalsupport to the UFW. The initial contributionfrom the union's Community Action Program is$1,000.

Support also came from the meatcutters andthe public employees unions.

Mayor Maier introduced Cesar at a pressconference at the Holiday Inn Midtown. Askedwhether his presence indicated support of theboycott, Maier replied: "We have--most of theleaders of the United States Conference ofMayors--have been on record, myself included,as supporting this movement for two to threeyears.' ·

. LOS ANGELES, California -- Fraudulent·and illegal meat labeling practices by SafewayMarkets are deceiving Southern California con­s umers and endangering the health of heartpatients and diabetics, according to a $7.5million consumer fraud suit filed January 4in Los Angeles Superior Court., The suit was brought by the Interfaith Com­mittee to Aid Farm Workers, a coalition of180 rabbis, priests, ministers and lay per­sons, after tests by two independent labora­tories showed Safeway is misrepresenting thefat content of its ground beef.

The Rev. Fred Eyster, chairman of the Com­mittee's Consumer Fraud Task Force, said,, , 'Lean' ground beef, which is priced 20¢to 30¢ higher per point than ground beef, wasfound in some stores to have a higher fatcontent than regular ground." Rev. Eyster noted'thant "extra lean" ground beef, priced 30¢-50¢ per pound higher than ground beef, wasfound in some stores to have higher fat levelsthan the "lean" ground variety.

The Interfaith Committee tested meats fromSafeway Stores located in the San FernandoValley, West Los Angeles, Wilshire District,Southeast Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley andInglewood.

"In the stores tested there was no significantfat content difference between grades of groundbeef at safeway," Rev. Eyster stated.

The fat level deception was revealed in testsby Alchem Laboratories, Inc. of Culver City,and Agri-Science Laboratories, Inc. of Haw­thorne. (Agri-SCience Laboratories ar.e USDAcertified meat chemists.)

Rev. Eyster continued, "We find it repre­hensible that Safeway Stores would engage insuch wholesale fraud on consumers whose foodbudgets are already severely taxed by inflatedmeat prices.

"But we are shocked and angered that Safe­way's thrust for increased profits compels themto gamble. with people's lives.

"We filed this suit on behalf of a class ofpeople who have been advised by their. doctorsto bUy lean meat. For years these 'consumers-­heart patients, diabetics, weight-watchers andhigh blood pressure victims--have paid 30¢­50¢ per pound premium for "extra lean"ground beef thinking they were protecting theirhealth.

"Now we find they have been deceived. Theirhealth has in fact been endangered for the sakeof more corporate profits for Safeway."

Filing suit for the Interfaith Committee wasBeverly Hills attorney J. Paul Spector. Mr.Spector represented the Committee in a suc­cessful court action that enjoined three pro­Proposition 22 television commercials duringthe November election campaign.

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Union General Counsel Jerry Cohen explains lawsuit hitting at sweetheart arrangement betweenlettuce growers and Teamsters. Union General Director Cesar Chavez ( on jerry's left) toldworkers not to be afraid and to continue their repudiation of the grower,~Teamster contracts.

SALINAS, California -- Union General Di­rector Cesar Chavez and Union General CounselJerry Cohen filed a $128,440,000 lawsuitJanuary 3 against 169 lettuce growers and com­panies and the Teamsters Union charging themwith conspiring to violate the civil rightsof Black, Chicano and Filipino farm workersby denYing their rights to the union of theirchoice by signing' 'sweetheart" contracts.

In his statement at the press conferenceannouncing the lawsuit, Cesar said:

"The California Supreme Court has foundthere was 'ultimate favoritism on the part ofthe growers to choose a union that was con­venient to them but that did not represent'their workers.'

"We charge and the Supreme Court foundthat each grower knew the Teamsters did notrepresent a majority or not even a substantialnumber of the workers when those contractswere signed.

''We charge and the Court found that thegrowers were in collusion with themselves andalso with the Teamsters to prevent the workersfrom, effective, true union representation.

"Therefore, the Court found there is no juris- ­dictional strike, so the crippling injunction that

broke our strike and in fact, kept us from havinga union here today, is dissolved and we arenow free to pick up from where we left offon September 16,1970."

The lawsuit, which was filed in behalf ofall lettuce workers, is a move to redress otherrights that were taken away from farm workersby the actions of the growers and Teamsters,according to jerry Cohen.

The lawsuit indicates, that besides the ini­tial purpose of breaking the Lettuce Strike,the contracts signed by the growers and theTeamsters had at least two other illegal pur­poses.

First, it is charged that the growers weremotivated solely by impermissible racial mo­tivations in illegally depriving Black, Chicano,and Filipino farm workers of their right tonegotiate through bargaining representativesof their own choosing. The growers apparentlywould rather bargain with a '''lily white" union,which they refer to as "more responsible"or "more traditional". For example, in aLos Angeles Times article january 11, a gro­wer attorney, William F. Spalding, said, "UFW' sleaders are highly emotional and irresponsible.'"

Ann Merrill, wife of one of the growers, alsoillustrated this attitude when she called farmworker strikers "a bunch of orangutans."

Second , it is charged that some of thegrowers, in violation of the federal ShermanAnti-Trust Act, signed with the Teamsters inorder to artificially suppress and depress com­petition.

Under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, it isillegal for the growers to conspire amongthemselves not to bargain with a particularunion and in a furtherance of that conspiracy,to sign sham contracts with the Teamsters tohelp them avoid bargaining with the UnitedFarm Workers.

The Union is seeking $28,440,000 damages and$100 million punitive damages for wages workers'have lost so far by being forced to work underTeamster contracts as compared to what theywould have earned under United Farm Workercontracts: a total of $128,440,000.

Since then, the Union is also seeking anadditional $28 million in damages for whatit says are violations of the Sherman Anti­Tru~t Act. Under the Act the damages wouldbe trebled to total more than $85 million.

eamsters,Gr ere Affa-rine-

On January 16, Bill Grami, organiZing directorof the Western Conference of Teamsters, an­nounced that the Teamsters and the growershad altered a few of the clauses of theirsweetheartcontracts. Union General CounselJerry Cohen charged the Teamsters and thegrowers are trying to smokescreen the recentCalifornia Supreme Court decision which cha­racterizes the Teamster-grower relationshipas "the ultimate favor.itism on the part ofthe growers to choose a union that was con­venient to them but that did not representtheir workers.

, 'The Teamsters and the growers have re­kindled their love affair," s aid Jerry, "Thisis an attempt to trick the public but the workersare not fooled.

, 'The growers are just. kidding themselvesif they think that by changing some of the termsof their phoney contracts will stop the strikeand boycott because the workers were angrywhen they were used by the growers in 1970,and they are angry now because the growersand the Teamsters are trying to control theirdestinies from a motel room."

Jerry said that , once again, the growershave refused to bargain with the true repre­sentatives of the workers. He pointed outthat the "phoney contracts" have no provisionsfor a hiring hall, they perpetuate the corruptlabor contractor system that farm workers havefought so long to destroy, they have no strongprotections against pesticides, and they haveno protections against the irresponsible intro­duction of machines into the fields, which forcefarm workers to go on welfare in the cities.

In addition, Jerry reported that Bill Grami,in response to a reporter's question in SanFrancisco, said that "farm workers will notbe forced to sign with the Teamsters for oneor two years." "The reason he announcedthat," said Jerry, "is that he can't get theworkers to sign up because the workers havealready signed up with the United Farm Wor­kers. So the Teamster contracts are nothingbut pieces of paper."

I JUST Pur Us DOWN As ~1R. AND MRS. JONES OR ~ITH' Teamsterue for Visit

.,~ Women andChildren

It looks as if Teamster officials are reallyafraid of another visit by farm worker womenand chil<:~ren. They are now suing the Unionfor $5,000 damages for the Burlingame demons­tr ation, during which Teamster officials refusedto talk to the workers and called the copsinstead. The Teamsters have also obtaineda court order limiting picketing to three per­sons per city block near their office buildingin Burlingame.

Cops, refusal to talk to farm workers, courtorders-o-could it be that Teamster leaders havebeen in their offices so long that they areacting more and more like their sweetheartsthe growers? Perhaps self-respecting rank­and-file Teamster members are going to begreatly distubed to see their leaders act somuch like employers.

All over California farm workers are picketi.ng Safeway stores in solidarity with the NationalSnfeway Boycott in order to ~trengthen the Lettuce Boycott and to force the lettuce growersand companies to negotiate contracts with the l;nited Farm 'vVorkers, the only legitimate farmworkers' union.

May.The Sacrifices

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Cesar E. Chavez, General DirectorUnited Farm Workers. AFL-CIO

VIVA LA CAUSA

VIVA LA HUELGA

VIVA LA CLINICA

Farm workers built the first clinic iIi Delano.The completion of that clinic was the beginningof another, because it was the coope~atlon and,support of the members who uSe it th~t'enabled

another clinic to becom~ a reality. ' ,In less than a year the enthusiasm and help

-drawn from Delano patients contributed to theopening of a clinic in the Imperial Valley.

~Our clinics are twice as strong now .as they were"a year ago. Let us rejoice in that' s~engthand carryon the struggle so that through thesacrifice of those using the Union clinics wemay give birth to other clinics.

At no time can we forget our brothers 'andsisters who are without medical care and decentclinics. What the Union is all about is sharing.We know what selfishness and greed hav~ do~e

to us and our families for too lo~g now.What we have we must share V{ith· others

who are Willing to struggle until all farm,workers and their families enjoy the . .fruit: of their labor anq can lead a healthy life.: Those unwilling to struggle have no 'place in

the- Union. Those unwilling to sacrifice· so that, they might share their medIcal ben~fits withI others have no place 'in· our clinics.

The Union will struggle until every farmworker cap. lead a decent life. The clinicwill struggle until every farm worker canlead a healthy life. The membership is theUnion, the membership is the clinic. Themembership must continue the struggle untilthe last farm worker is reached and the lastbattle is won.

People are healthy not because of goodhospitals or good doctors , or good medicine.Healthy people are the product of a healthylife. A healthy body demands that you havedecent living conditions and decent workingconditioQs.

Human .living conditions and healthy fooddo far more to promote good health thanall the doctors and all the medicine in theworld. A strong Union contract will bringyou decent wages so that you can feed your-

.. self and your family. It will bring you healthyworking conditions so that you might enjoythe fruits of your labor; it will bring youdignity as a work~r so that you might decideon the nature of the work that you do.

Without a strong contract, medical careis impossible. Medical care without acontract is like trying to keep dry in a storm.Some one might throw you a·towel as a gestureof good will, but a strong contract will bringyou inside and offer you shelter. A strongcontract is of much more ·value to the healthof you and your family than a dozen clinics.Unless a clinic is under the shelter of astrongunion it is useless to you.

The clinic is not given to farm workerslife a gift , but is the result of struggle andsacrifice. The same struggle and sacrificethat ,goes into building a union goes .intoorganiZing a clinic.

That struggle will not end once a particularcontract is signed or once a particular clinicis opened but will go on until everyfarm workeris protected by a conti-act and until every farmworker family is assured of decent medicalcare.

. The struggle does not end at the door of theclinic but must be brought inside. The clinicstaff must not rest until good health is areality for all farm workers and not just ahope. Farm worker patients must sacrifice.so that they might share _the health benefitsthey receive with all their brothers and sistersthroughout the country•.

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David Burciaga,DirectorDepartment of Negotiations

If you have ideas or suggestions as to how to improveyour Union contract contact the members of your RanchCommittee before the above dates. Your Ranch Committeehas the responsibility to represent you at these meetingsuntil negotiations committees are elected.

Stay informed. The decisions that are being madeare of great importance to the welJ-being of you andyour family. Your Union contract. is only as strong asyour participation in making it better.

Grape workers met in La Paz, January 6 to plan a pro­gram of preparation for the re-negotiations of the grapeUnion contracts. A series of meetings are now takingplace in areas where there are Union contracts in thegrapes:

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MANAGUA. Nicaragua-- The earthquaKe thatdestroyed Managua, the capital of Nicaragua,killed hundreds of persons and left some 400.000more homeless and without food to eat. Inresponse to the disaster CLAT. Central ofLatin American Workers, and the CCT, Con-

, federation of Central American Workers. mo­. bilized to help the Nicaraguan people.

A bridge of constant aid and communicationwas established between CCT and the Centralof Nicaraguan' Workers. The aid has beendirect and efficient. in contrast to the diffi­culties encountered by other forms of aid dueto the inefficiency and corruption of the govern­ment of Dictator Somoza.

\AbRKERS AID NICARAGUA

~NNEri PARENTHOODThe first Symposium on Planned Parenthood

was held recently in Venezuela. The purposeof the symposium appeared to be to convinceworkers that the solution to all of their problemslies in birth control. But the workers refusedto swallow the "pill" and the delegation fromCodesa, of the Confederation of AutonomousUnions. spoke directly to the point declaringthat "the politics of population control shouldbe subordinated to a social politics of a justdistribution of wealth."

They said: "We believe the information andservices necessary for planned parenthood shouldbe available to every family, but they shouldhave complete liberty, without seeing themselvespressured psychologically by the state or pri­vate institutions, or, which is even worse, bysub-human economic conditions of poverty andhunger."

"Change society," they declared, "let us con­~ truct a new cosiety in which every Latin Amer­Ican can have the right to develop themselvesfully as human beings. It is obvious that thisplan is repugnant to the wealthy classes bothinside and outside Latin America. It is easierto distribute birth control pills or coils, thanto give up the power of privelege and prestigebefore the advance of those that want to builda new society for ALL Latin Americans:'

SAN FRANCISCO.California-- As the SanQuentin work-stoppage enters its fourth day,word continues to come from inside theprison concerning the direct repression of thestrikers. San Quentin autli.orites admitted onthe first day of the strike that the action wascompletely effective:only 250 men of the totalinmate population of 1850 went to ther jobsafter breakfast, and the prison ,authoriteslocked-down the entire institution immediately.

Today, lawyers who entered the prison for.the first time since the strike began said thatseveral dozen men from the maximum secu­rity block were continuing the strike.

The United Prisoners Union has releaseda list of the demands made by the strikers.The list, prefaced by a powerful, brief state­ment expressing the tlnity of all Black. Brownand White inmates participating in the strike.is in part as follows:

- that the Adult Authority (Which supervisesparole granting and is currently appointed byGov.Reagan) be replaced by a popularly electedbody.- that all convicts have legal counsel at 'pa­role and disciplinary hearings.-that the San Quentin population be reducedimmediately and that the facility be closedin 1975 on schedule; no more "double-celling".- that the minimum wage Laws be put intoeffect for all labor in excess of 10 hoursper week (current wages are as low as 2¢per hour).- that conjugal visits be allowed all inmates.- that all mail censorship be ended-that the United Prisoners Union Bill ofRights be implemented.- that sexual, racial and political repression ofinmates by the administration be ended.-that the Indeterminate Sentence Law be abo­lished and replaced by a minimum-maximumlenght of term law; that all convicts have theright to parole after serving their minimumsentence.

SAN (lJENTIN PRISONERS STRIKE

On this Christmas of 1972, millions of farmwokers in Latin America subsist in the mostinhuman conditions of exploitation and misery,while at the expense of the efforts of thesefarm workers, the rich and powerful in thesecountries fill their coffers even more.

That is why, this Christmas of 1972 willnot be celebrated by us the way the rich wouldhave us do: displaying and "peace" and "love"that hides their attempts to quell, popular re­bellions. On the contrary. this Christmas of1972 and the New Year just starting will bean occasion of renewing and re-affirming onceagain our pledge to:

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STRUGGLE UNTIL THE ULTIMATECONSEQUENCES FOR POPULAR REVOLU-

TION .IN ORDER TO SECURE A JUST AND FREE

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NEW UNION WINS IN MISSISSIPPI

To GET OuT OF POVERTY

FOREST. Mississippi -- The workers ofPoultry Packers.lnc••voted 95 to 76, to join theMississippi Poultry Workers Union.

The company thinking it was going to winthe vote. called a special meeting of all ofthe workers for the announcement of the vote.When the union won, the workers cheered andapplauded loudly.

This victory opens the door to the unioni­zation of the giant po'ultry industry that employsthousands of workers in Mississippi.Alabamaand Georgia. Most of the plants in the industryare relatively small, but highly efficient.Workers say the pay is miserable and theworking conditions horrible.

--LATIN AMERICAN FARM WORKER FED­ERATION (F.C.L.)

Washington,D.C.--lt will take more than a$2 minimum wage for a family of four to riseout of the poverty level.

Minimum wage legislation to raise thepresent floor of $1.60 an hour-~$1.30 for farmworkers--died in the last session of Congress.But the cost of living kept rising, and theLabor Dept. announced that the poverty lineused to help determine eligibility for variousmanpower programs has been moved up sincelast year.

The government now considers as "poor"any nonfarm family of four in the continentalUnited States with an income under $4,200a year.

Last year's comparable figure was $4.000.At the present minimum wage. a full-time,

year-'round worker would earn only $3.328.And even at a $2 figure. total earnings wouldbe only $4.160-- still below the poverty cut­off.

The new contract provides pay increases of5.5 percent in each of three years and im­proved fringe benefits.including two new paidholidays and better opportunities to partici­pate in a company investment program.

MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican governmentis investigating charges that former US Pre­sident Lyndon B. Johnson is surreptitiouslyand illegally holding 108.724 acres of ranchland in the border state of Chihuahua.

The charges have been brought by a groupof farmers in Chihuahua, who say Johnson isusing the land under an agreement with formerMexican President Miguel Aleman.

A spokesman for President Luis Echeverriaconfirmed that the Agrarian Department is con­ducting the investigation and added that thegovernment would have nothing more to sayat this point.

Large landholdings are an especially sen­sitive issue in Mexico. one that was a basiccause of the Mexican Revolution 60 years ago.It was the promise of the revolution that everyfarmer would have his own piece of land towork.

GROWER LYNDON B. JOHNSON

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NEW YORK.N. Y.--Striking members of theInternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workershave returned to their jobs with the ColumbiaBroadcasting System here and in six othercities following ratification of a new three­year contract. The nationwide vote to acceptthe settlement was 561 to 509.

The agreement ended an eight-week-old strikethat began on Nov.3. when some 1,200 CBStelevision cameramen. technicians and engi­neers walked off the job after union and ma­nagement negotiations failed to agree on a newcontract to replace one !that expired Nov.l.,

In repudiation of the recent brutal extermin­ation bombing by American bombers in Vietnam.the longshoremen's union of Australia starteda boycott of American ships December 28. Theboycott continued until January 11.

In Italy. too, the loaders for the ships Gen­ova and Savona declared a three-day boycottfrom December 28 to January 1.

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From the Heart of the People

EAST ALISAL

Alisal heads west toward MainPacking plants and cooling shedsMark the way, as murmuring indignities.And the sun of the camposPelts the town with tin shivers.Turn around, and Alisal goes eastAnd loses itself in the lettuce furrows.Along this road and all her twinsAre the fields of the rancherosAnd the lives of the campesinos.

Valley dust lies thicklyOn the walls of the labor camp.A child's little finger carefully makesA path along one side.SlOWly, definitely, she marks a road-­East Alisal, Molera, Old Stage•••

PRAYER OF DAN BERRIGAN

We pray the God of peacean of unityand of decency for all men,for the victimsand the executioners,for those who stand in court as judgedand as judging,for those who endure our jails,and our stockadesand our trenchesand our army depotsand our ships,hastening on the work of destruction.

Let us pray' for all those who lie lmderour bombs

and for those who dispatch them,let us pray for the innocent,for the villagers,and for the soldiers,and for those who go to killand be killedwithout ever knOWing the alternativesthat have awakened in us.

YEAR OF THE BOYCOTT

We saw him oh the sidewalk in salinas,A brown, sunburned-pale face-­Dignity and fatigue took turnsIn molding his form

I am brownI am poor1 am scaredI am right.

My picket is illegal,And I'm still right.--so you're going to jail?-­We asked the question softly.--Yes.. yes, but Cesar's going too -­That makes it all right;The three of us smiled.

And I remembered the soundOf five hundred passions tht cried-­Que viva Dios Rey

-- Janie Miller (12)

Let us pray for thosewho are powerfuland for those who ar powerless;let us pray for thosewho are hopeless without powerand those who are without consciencewith power,let us pray for all thosewho believe in life;and for all who makethe horrendous act of faith in death.

Let us pray for {ill thosewho cancel out 'upon their tonguesand within their mindsthe word brotherfor the duration;let us pray for all thosewho through the war have discoveredfor the first timethe word brother.

Let us pray for all who believeand yet do not hope,let us pray for all those who hopeand yet do not arm their hope;and let us pray for ourselvesanc for all,finally,who await our love.Amen.

CAMPESINO

In the soul of our beingmother earth is forever present,it leaves us breathless to walkaCross a furrowed field,knOWing that a part of us is rootedin its vast beauty, which we workedwith our bare hands and our children'sand forefathers hopes and sufferings

We have toiled the good brown earth,which reflects the beauty of our natureone of good will and celebrationone in Christ and the brown Virgin Mary.

We were truly born free,as free as an orange sunrise,silouetting the black eagle's justice,free like lightning that lights a dark sky,free as God's four winds thatrefresh our souls, and his rainsthatwash our sun bronzed faces.

--for Cesar--Your friend Alberto Vilonia

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