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Dear sisters and brothers:

The time has come for us to reflect

seriously on the meaning of our movement.

Starting with this edition of EL MALCRIADO

our brother, Cesar Chavez, writes his

thoughts on the ideals of La Causa, starting

with the Plan for the Liberation of Farm

Workers.

1 am asking that you read his words

carefully, think about them and let them

become part of you. Our struggles against

the growers, the Farm Bureau and other

reactionary forces are intensifying. Our

enemies are doing everything possible to

divide us and destroy our Union. To defeat

them we need the inspiration and the

clarity of vision Cesar's words give us.

Read them and put them into practice~

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MONTANA State AFL-CIO,Executive Board:

80V~OTr LETTUCE

EL MALeRIADO

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UNITED FARM WORKERSAFL-CIO

La Paz P.O. Box 62Keene, California 93531

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BE IT TI-lEREFORE RESOLVED, thatthe American G.I. Forum of the UnitedStates, assembled in annual convention,affirm its support of the boycott of ice­berg lettuce as a legitimate nonviolenttactic to bring justice to the lettuce work­ers;

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, AmericanGI Forum of the U.S., 24th Annual NationalConvention. Resolutions Committee:

WHEREAS, the lettuce growers have re­fused either to grant secret ballot electionsor enter into good faith. negotiations withtheir workers; .

" •.• WHEREAS, the United Farm Work·ers is currently boycotting iceberg lettuCe .in order to bring about justice and dig­nity for over 20,000 lettuce workers; and

". . . To the thousands who are workinglong, tough hours on the Lettuce Boycottplease accept our deepest thanks. Every­one here knows that without your help theUnion's foothold in Arizona may just be­come a memory,

.. One way we have of defying this ant i­farmworker law is by wearing BoycottLettuce buttons and having Boycott Let­tuce bumper stickers on our cars.

TUCSON, ARIZONA, jerry Robinett,Boycott Organizer:

The United States National Student As­sociation passed a resolution calling fornation-wide organizing for the United FarmWorkers Lettuce Boycott as "a legitimatetactic to bring justice to the lettuce work­ers".

WASHINGTON, D.C. :

OHIO Governor john j. Gilligan:

". . . 1 think we can say very explicitlyand very candidly that the struggle ofCesar Chavez and his people is our struggle.We. participate in it totally. Their effortis our effort and we share fully with themin everything they hope to achieve.

Beginning now, we're not going to buyanymore lettuce. We'll bUy bib lettuce.We're not going to buy anymore iceberglettuce.

PENNSYLVANIA Governor Milton j. Shapp:

"••• WHEREAS, backed by the powerfulAmerican Farm Bureau, repressive statelaws have been passed or are being soughtto destroy the ability of the UFW toeffectively represent farmworkers,

RESOLVED, that we urge all our membersand friends to refrain from buying "ice­berg" (head) lettuce which does not have theBlack Eagle UFW label imprinted on thesack in which the lettuce is offered forsale."

", , , I hereby direct that all StateDepartments, Boards, Commissions andAgencies cease purchasing Iceberg Lettuce,and in its place purchase Endive, Chicory,Escarole, Romaine, Bibb, Boston or LeafLettuce:'

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Cesar Announces Series of Massive Farm Worker RalliesAgainst Proposition 22LA PAZ, California -- Cesar Chavez,

Director of our Union, announced a seriesof massive rallies to be held this month inorder to inform farmworkers about thelatest developments regarding Proposition22 and how to defeat it.

"Proposition 22 is a shameful fraud onthe part of the growers and labor con­tractors, w~o want to !lestroy our Union,"declared Cesar. "That is why we areasking all of our members to join us inthe demonstrations and rallies against thisproposition."

Rally in Delano September 16On september 16 at 8:00 p.m. our Union

will sponsor the first of the rallies againstProposition 22 at the Delano High SChoolstadium. Union members w1ll also cele­brate the seventh anniversary of the be­ginning of the Grape Strike.

There will be a procession of flagsaccompapied by drums and trumpets. Allranch committees, the different depart"ments of our movement in Delano, andthe different minority groups who formour Union's membership are invited toparticipate with flags and banners repre·senting your dele~ation.

Our brother Cesar Chavez will be pre·sent to speak to us on Proposition 22.

General Meeting in Salinas onSeptember 20

Union members and strikers from allover the Salinas Valley will join CesarChavez at the rodeo stadium in Salinas,September 20 at 8:00 p.m. You are in­vited to bring your flags and banners justas you did during the strike in 1970. OurUnion Director will speak to us aboutProposition 22 and how to defeat thisfilthy attack on our Union by the FarmBureau and the growers. Don't miss thisevent. Together we shall win.

VICTORY AGAINST COCHISE FARMS. Elfrida, Arizona-- Our brothers, peachpickers wh~ struck ,Coochise Farms July 17 won a major victory when the com-:pany recogmzed the Umon. Negotiations are scheduled to start next month. J

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UNION HITS AT IMPORTATIONOF SUGAR CANE CUTTERS

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Yrn~S STRIKETo extend

Union benefits to other workersDELANO, California -- The 300 workers

of White Rivers Farms, originally SChenleybut now a subsidiary of a lat"ge oil company,struck the company August 28 after thecompany refused to bargain in good faithon a new contract.

The workers of White River Farms werethe first workers to win a Union contractin 1966 and they are determined not to loseit.

Negotiations had seemed to be goingsmoothly until the company declared itwould not accept the "joint venture" clausein the new contract which provides for theextension of the contract to any new prop­erties acquired by the company. Theworkers warned the company they wouldgo out on strike on Monday the 28th if asatisfactory agreement was not reachedby then.

Later, the company also said it neededto discuss four more clauses dealing withUnion securi ty, grievance procedures, man­agement rights and savings. The workersare especially opposed to any changes thatwould affect job security and the resolvingof grievances.

According to the members of the RanchCommittee, Refugio Guaj ardo, Jesus Gua­jardo, Luis Cantu, Miguel Garza, and Heme"rildo Loredo, and their advisor, PabloLopez, the company wants to weaken thelanguage of the Union security clause, butthe workers want to maintain its presentlanguage which affirms that "Union mem­bers will not cross picketlines."

The company also wants to establisha 15 day limit on the filing of grievances,but the workers want to reserve the rightto file grievances whenever they are dis­covered, not just within a specified timelimit. '

But the struggle centers around the"joint-venture" clause. The company re­fuses to accept it, but the workers aredetermined to force the company into ex­tending the contract to its farm in Merced,Hamburg Farms, which total 6,300 acres.The workers at Hamburg Farms have al­ready signed authorization cards autho­rizing our Union to represent them. Thisis obViously a great example of Uni onsolidarity on the part of the White RiversFarms workers.

With the help of Union members from·other ranches in Delano, the picketlinesaround White River Farms have been ex­tremely effective and not one of the 300strikers has gone back to work. Thestrikers are, determined to keep out anyscabs the company might bring in and arelooking forward to a victory soon. i UnidosVenceremos! i SI SE I'UEDE!

90,000

Signatures

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PHOENIX, Arizona A total of 90,000signatures have been gathered in the driveto recall Governor Jack Williams, accordingto Jim Drake, director of the recall effort.

Jim Drake said despite the fact thatmembers of the Arizona Recall Campaignhave become deeply involved in severalpolitical campaigns, signatures for therecall petition are still being gathered atthe rate of 1,000 a day.

Jim also said that the massive voterregistration campaign which has ac·companied the recall effort has been verysuccessful. Registration in Maricopa Coun­ty, where the registration effort has center·ed, is up over 440,ooo--whereas only411,OOOvoters turned out for the last major electionin the entire state. In the Tucson area whereDemocratic and Republican registrationwere about even, registered Democrats nowoumumber Republicans by two to one.

The Recall staff has been involved ina half a dozen political campaigns aroundthe state, but have concentrated on thecampaign of Bob Reveles for Representativefrom the Fourth Congressional District,and against State Representative Stan Akers,who was instrumental in the passage ofArizona's anti-farmworker law. Arizona'sprimary election is September 12.

Jim said that we must not loose sightof the source of the massive effort inArizona: Cesar's 24 day fast for justice.He said that the kind of sustained campaginthat Arizona has wimessed is possible onlywhen thousands of people are deeply touchedby an act of sacrifice like the fast.

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~~- '.- ""'--- ----Dear members:

The Executive Board of our Union at itsmonthly meeting in August 1972 voted to puta referendum to the vote of you, the mem­bers, on the follOWing three items:

(1) To seek authorization by referendumvote empowering the Executive Board toissue a call for a founding convention ofour new Union in 1973:

(2) To seek authorization by referendumvote empowering the Executive Board todraft a proposed Constitution which willbe submitted for consideration at said found­ing convention in 1973 if approved.

(3) To decide by referendum vote whetheror not the present officers, cesar Chavez,Dolores Huerta, Andy Imutan, GilbertoPadilla, Antonio Orendain, Phillip VeraCruz, Julio Hernandez, who comprise the 0

Executive Board will continue in officeuntil new officers are duly elected atthe said convention in 1973 if approved. '

Within the next few days ballots willbe delivered to your Ranch Committee withinstructions for a secret ballot vote onthe items above.

This is an extremely serious matter,for the welfare of our whole Union. Yourvote is very important.

(~""to--- £. ~i~¥,Cesar Chavez, DirectorUnited Farm Workers

PLANT CITY, Florida -- Our Unionis demanding that the U.S. Labor Depart­ment stop the importation of JamaHcansugar cane workers by growers, whilethousands of local farm workers are un­employed.

The same demand is being made to thelarge sugar cane producers in Florida,along with a request that they recognizethe Union and negotiate collective bar­gaining agreements.

In a recent letter to 5ecretaryofLaborJames P. Hodgson, Union Director CesarChavez said the U. S. government was vio­lating federal law by importing foreign canecutters without first exhausting all effortsto hire domestic workers.

"Allowing the giant agribusiness inter­ests which control Florida's sugar caneindustry to harvest their crops with foreignworkers at substandard wages and unsafeand unsanitary working conditions willfurther depress the liVing standards ofdomestic workers who are ready, willingand able to work at such jobs for decentwages," said Cesar.

On september 5 our Union' accused theUnited States Sugar Corporation of beingdirectly responsible for the unemploymentof thousands of Florida migrant farmworkers and of violating the rights of itsemployers by refusing to negotiate withthe Union even though the majority ofthe workers want the Union.

Eliseo Medina, Florida Director of Or­ganizing for the Union, said he has learnedthe U.s. Sugar Corporation is circulating apetition asking farm workers to state theydon't want the Union. "Those that don'tsign are under intimidation of being fired,"he said.

The corporation, which is 75%-owned byFlint, Michigan multi-millionaire C. S.Mott, is one of the nation's largest manu­facturers of raw sugar products and ownsin excess of 100,000 acres of farm land inthe Everglades District of Florida.

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Pantaleo-Lamanuzzi Strikers are determined to win another victory for LaCausa.

Lamanuzzi Score Card

As the strike against Lamanuzzi-Pan­taleo enters its sixth week, clouds gatheron the horizan for bossman Lamanuzzi.

His favorite labor contractor GeorgeKoklas was caught with his pants downthis week when the Labor Commissionfound four children working on his Crewin the struck vineyards. Koklas has beenshalcen up a bit by the three visits theCommission has paid him duringthestri1ce,but still, the Union picketline is a full­time audience to his cruel shananigans.

Child labor is not the only poorly keptsecret of Koklas and Lamanuzzi. Picket­line leader Pablo Espinosa reports that75% of the people working for the Koklas­Lamanuzzi are denied even minimum wages,earning between $1.30 and $1.50 an hour.

Evidence also points to Koklas' repor­ting only one social security number perfamily, a crooked practice that affects thenumber of social security benefits indi­vidual family members are to receivelater. In some cases, Koklas does noteven report social security numbers at allin order to evade paying taxes and to fur­ther deny the workers their meagre go­vernment benefits.

Meanwhile, the Union picketline solidlysurroWlds Lamanuzzi's vineyards in the De­lano and Fresno areas. And with a well­known crooked labor contractor as his bestfriend, things are looking bleak indeed forLamanuzzi. His non-Union days arenumbered.

Brothers Hurt In AutoAccident

News From Delano

Tragedy struck the Lamanuzzi picketline-recently when three of our Union brothers,julian Baladoy, Willie Barrientos, andTolay "Pachuco" Sixto were in an auto­mobile accident while departing from thepicketline aroWld 12 noon. The three hadbeen on the picketline every day beginningat 5:00 a.m. for the past three weeks,and Wldoubted1y fatigue had been taking itstolL

They were making a u-turq when theoncoming car struck them. No one in theother vehicle was injured, but Willie andPachuco suffered from shock. and julianwas rushed to Tulare General Hospitalin critical condition, with six broken ribs,damage to his lWlgs, and other internalinjuries.

The greatest danger has been that hislung condition would make him wlnerableto phnemonia. But julian has pulled throughthe week, and there are indications thathis condition is gradually imprOVing.

Willie, Pachuco and julian have been withthe Union since the beginning--all threewalked out in the first strike in Delano in1965. Since then, all have been full-timevolWlteers with the Union.

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Fresh-Pict Fined For ScabbingSALINAS, California -- A Fresh-Pict crew, with the help

of Union organizer Antonio Sanchez and Grievance Committeepresident Salvador Jimenez, forced the company to pay eachworker 10 hours of work as a fine for having brought in alabor contractor and his scabs to do some thinning. The finecost Fresh-Pict about $963.00.

ITALY -- After one yea r of negotiations and 14 days ofnationwide strikes, Italian farmworkers won a national unioncontract from the growers.

The contract puts Italian farmworkers on equal footing withindustrial workers on job security and other union benefits,such as medical care. unemployment insurance and pensionplans. They won a seven percent increase in wages, a 40­hour work week and 24-day annual vacations.

Victory In Indiana

Italian Farmworkers Win National Contract

SARGENT, Colorado -- Backed solidly by 500 lettuceworkers and Union supporters, director of organizing inColorado, Magdaleno Avila, and Union organizer, Bob Thomp­son, completely unmasked and discredited the Farm Bureauduring a debate with three of its officials August 6 at SargentCounty High School.

Magdaleno and Bob proved the Farm Bureau is nothing buta tool of the growers and other large corporations. They saidthe only interest the Farm Bureau has in farmworkers is todestroy tHE;: United Farm Workers, our only hope for a betterlife.

Debate With the Farm Bureau

Caric Workers Vote For RFK Medical Pla r

INDIANAPOLIS. Indiana -. Farmworkers in Indiana wona great court victory against the Morgan Packing Companyof Austin, Indiana. when an Indianapolis federal court ruledspecifically that farmworkers living in labor camps have theright to be visited by Union organizers and to receive leafletsand other pamphlets about our Union.

This decision opened the road for widespread Union or­ganizing throughout Indiana as 2,000 farmworkers began toarrive for the tomato harvest from Michigan. where they havejust finished harvesting other crops. VIVA LA CAUSA!

DELANO, California -- By a vote of 142 to 38 the workersat Caric Vineyards demanded that the company pay the 10 centsan hour into the RFK Medical Plan as required by the con­tract it signed with our Union several years ago.

For a long time, the company has tried to buy off theworkers with its own "plan" that covers the workers onlyfor the duration of the time they work at Carico But now,Caric' s number is finally up!

Peti ti on to Revok· KWAC I s LicenseBAKERSFIELD, California -- Our Union. together with the

Community Service Organization, has filed a petition with theFederal Communications Commission to revoke the rightsof radio station KW AC. The station is accused of not prop­erly serving the needs of the Chicano community and em­ploying too few Spanish-speaking persons.

Union Director Cesar Chavez declared the United FarmWorkers is involved in presenting the petition "not only inrespons.e to dissatisfaction among its members in KernCounty, but in behalf of its members throughout the UnitedStates who depend on Spanish radio."

Union Member DiesSOLEDAD, California •• Our

sister, Mrs. Socorro De La Rosa.a dedicated member of our Uniondied July 23 at the age of 52.She was a native of Aguas Ca·'lientes, Mexico.

She joined the Union in 1968and worked at Paul Masson Vine·yards. About SOO Union membersattended the funeral services heldfor her in Soledad.

You say you are a Union worker, butyou work with labor contractors and scabswhenever you can. The only thing you careabout is your job. And your brothers? Well,they can go to hell! It doesn't matter thatthe growers and the labor contractors havegotten rich with your life and that of yourbrothers, just as long as you are tossed abone to gnaw on.

You say you have never crossed a picket-

line, but you went to the "dinner party"put on by the Farm Bureau in Balcers­field. You crossed the picketlines marmedby your fellow farmworkers and sat downto wine and dine with Delano super-scabDolores Mendoza because "when I amoff the job I do as I please."

Don't be such a fool, Monico Teran, alot of super-scabs got started that way~

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Planfor the Liberationof Farm Workers

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All things have a reason, an idea and aplan. Here then is the plan for ourmovement -- a plan for the liberation ofthe farm workers of the United States ofNorth America, affiliated with the uniqueand true union of farm workers, the UnitedFarm Worke~s, AFL-CIO, seeking s~ial

justice in farm labor with those reformsthat they believe necessary for theirwell-being as workers.

We, the .undersigned, gathered inPilgrimage to every agricultural area of theUnited States, make penance for all the needsof Farm Workers. As free and sovereignmen and women, we do solemnly declarebefore the civilized world which judges ouractions, and before the nation where wework, the proposition we have formulatedto end the injustice that oppresses us.

Weare conscious of the hiistoricalsignificance of our Pilgrimage. It isclearly evident that our path travels througha valley of tears well-known to all farmworkers, because in all valleys the way ofthe farm worker has been one of sacrificefor generations. Our sweat and our bloodhave fallen on this land to make other menrich. This Pilgrimage is a witness to thesuffering we have seen for generations.

The penance we accept symbolizes thesuffering we shall have in order to bringjustice to all farm workers throughout theland. The Pilgrimage we make symbolizesthe long historical road we have traveleduntil now, and the long road we have yet totravel, with much penance in order to bringabout the Revolution we need, and for whichwe present the propositions in the followingplan:

1) This is the beginning of a socialmovement in fact and not in pronouncements.We seek our basic, God-given rights ashuman beings. Because we ha\e suffered,and are not afraid to suffer in order tosurvive, we are ready to give upeverything -- even our lives -- in ourstruggle for social justice. We shall doit without violence because it is our destiny.To the growers and to all those who opposeus, we say the words of Benito juarez,"Respect for another's rights is the meaningof peace."

2) We seek the support of all politicalgroups and the protection by the governmentwhich is also our government, in ourstruggle. For too many years we have beentreated like the lowest of the low. Our wagesand working conditions have beendetermined from above, becauseirresponsible legislators who could havehelped us, have supported the argumentthat the plight of the farm worker was a"special case". They saw the obviouseffects of an unjust system, starvationwages, contractors, day-haUl~, forced

migration, sickness, illiteracy, fUthy laborcamps (lIld sub-human living conditions, andacted as if they were irremediable. Thefarm worker has been abandoned to hisown1fate -- without representation, withoutpower -- subject to the mercy and thecaprice of the grower. We are tired ofwords, of betrayals, of indifference. Tothe politicians we say that the years aregone when the farm worker said nothingand did nothing to help himself. But nowwe have new faith. Through our strongWill, our movement is changing theseconditions. Due to our movement, farmworker leaders are developing who are.faithful to the ideals and the propositionsof the farm workers. They shall represent·us. WE SHALL BE HEARD.

3) We seek and have the support ofthe Church in what we do. Our movementis non-sectarian. Our movement includesall religions. We are all brothers andsisters, sons and daughters of the sameGod: that is why we say to all men andwomen of good Will, in the words ofPope Leo. XIII, "Everyone's first dutyis to protect the workers from the greedof speculators who use human beings asinstruments to prOVide themselves withmoney. It is neither just nor human tooppress men with excessive work to thepoint where their minds become enfeebledand their bodies worn out." GOD SHALLNOT ABANDON US.

4) We are suffering. We have suffered,and we are not afraid to suffer in order towin our cause. We have sufferedunnumbered ills and crimes in the name ofthe Law of the Land. Our men, women andchildren have suffered not only the basicbrutality of stoop labor, and the mostobvious injustices of the system; they havealso suffered the desperation of knOWing thatthe system caters to the greed of callousmen and not to our needs. Now we willsuffer for the purpose of ending the poverty,the misery, and the injustice, with the hopethat our children will not be exploited aswe have been. They have imposed hungeron us, and now we hunger for justice. Wedraw our strength from the very despair inwhich we have been forced to live. WESHALL ENDURE.

5) We shall unite. We have learnedthe meaning of unity. We know, from otherunions, the reasons why workers organize.The strength of the poor is also in unity.We know that the poverty of the farm workerin California is the same as t.'Jat of allfarm workers across the country -- theMexicans, Filipinos, Blacks and poorwhites; the Puerto Ricans, the japanese,the Indians, the Portuguese and the Arabs -­in short, all the races that comprise theoppressed minorities of the United States.

Most of us farm workers in this. Pilgrimage, work in California. But the

triumph of our cause depends on theorganization of all farm workers in thenation. Many of us have been fooled bythe growers and contractors by their emptypromises and lies, which they have used toget wealthier at our expenses. Thesedishonest acts are just some of the cynicaljokes that jab at our impotence. This iswhy we must join with the true union offarm workers. UNITED WE SHALL STAND!

6) We shall strike: we ~:hall organizeboycotts: we shall demonstrate, and havepolitical campaigns. We shall pursue therevolution we have proposed. Weare sonsand daughters of the farm worker'srevolution, a revolution of the poor seekingbread and justice. Our revolution will notbe armed, but we want the existing orderof agri-business to dissolve; ·we want anewsocial order for the farm workers in thefields. We are poor: we are humble andour only choice is to strike in those rancheswhere we are not treated with the respectWe deserve as working men and women:where our rights as free and sovereign menand women are not recognized. We do nlltwant the paternalism of the grower. Wedo not want the contractor. We do not wantcharity at the price of our dignity. Wewant to be equal with all the working menand women in the nation. We want a justwage, better working conditions, a decentfuture for our children. To those whooppose us, be they growers, contractors,scabs, police, politicians, or speculators,we :say that we are going to continuestruggli~g until we win or die. WE SHALLOVERCOME.

Across the San joaquin Valley, acrossCalifornia, across the entire nation,whereever there are injustices against menand women and children who work in thefields -- there you will see our flags -­with the black eagle with the white and redbackground, flying. Our movement isspreading like flames across a dry plain.Our Pilgrimage is the match that will lightour cause for all farm workers to see whatis happening here, so that they may do aswe have done. The time has come for theliberation of the poor farm worker.

History is on our side. We support allfarm worker strikes. We support the boycottas our most powerful non-violent weapon.We must work hard so that this can becomea truly great movement. Long live the causeof the farm workers.

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Ithat out of 169,433 persons who are eli­gible to vote, more than 83,259 or about50 percent are not registered to vote. Inthe county there are only 480 registrars.

"This deputy registrar is one of thoseold, conservative Republicans who wantsto keep farmworkers from VOting," de­c lared Juan Huerta. He said Maggini isdoing everything possible to stop our voterregistration drive our Union launched inorder to defeat Proposition 22-

juan Huerta informed us that six personsh ave been denied the right to become avoter registrar during the last two weeks:Annie Moreno': Irma Huerta Rendgn; HenryHuerta: Antonia Renter!a: josephine Carr­illo and Ramgn Lopez. Maggini also re­fuses to appoint 30 workers at Paul Mas­son who want to be registrars.

Also, Maggini recently rejected joseLuna of Soledad because "he did not knowenough English" and Jos~ Moreno, alsoof Soledad, because "he does not have atelephone,"

King City; near the mission in sOledad: and.the Orchard Companycampnear Greenfield.

And for the "honor" of living in hisslummy camps, Joe Silva charges $100.00a month rent and $4.50 a day for food.

His number one sidekick, Manuel Her­nandez (known as "el Pingo", that is,"the Pill"), as well as his other forementreats workers like dirt. And some ofthe characters Joe Silva hires to managehis camps carry their guns around readyto take csre of anyone who gets in theirway. For example, just last week a campmanager at the "Uttle Waco" camp shota worker in the stomach.

When we finally win our battles with thegrowers and the agribusiness companies,we will put rip-off artists like Joe Silvaand the other labor contractors right outof business. And they will then either haveto take their scabbing elsewhere or settledown to making an honest liVing. i Viva LaCausaL

KING CIlY, California -- It may benecessary for our Union to initiate a law­suit against Ernest Maggini, deputy Voter'registrar for Monterey County, reportedJuan Huerta, director of the Union in KingCity.

He said that Mapi refuses to trainmore persons to be voter registrars andclaims there are enough registrars in thecounty.

Yet, the county's own statistics indiCate

DISCRIMINATIONAGAINSTFARMWORKERS

Juan Huerta, director of the Union in King City, discusses an immigration problemwith Gonzalo Cantu, a Paul Masson worker.

Joe Silva, one 0 f the most bullheadedenemies of La Causa, is the biggest laborcontractor in the salinas Valley. For morethan 15 years he has robbed and exploitedfarmworkers, starting first with the bra­ceros and then with farmworkers in general.Through his business of dealing with farm­workers as so many pieces of merchandise,he has enriched himself at their expense.

Joe Silva is always on call when thegrowers need him for strikebreaking. Hebrought in scabs during the strike in 1972.Today, he continues his scabbing at Brownand Hill.

He controls about 250-300 scabs. Heplays on their hunger and poverty -- yes,he gives them a little work, but he neverforgets to take a big bite out of their pay-checks. .

In order to keep an eye on his workersand to make as much money off of themas possible, he sticks them in his own camps:the "Little Waco" camp in San Lucas; in

Ernest Garcia: "The company brokeoff negotiations and sought labor con­tractors and scabs to do the harvest."

Brown and Hill strikers: "We went on strike because the company tried to humiliate us and the Union."

DanIel Rocha: "We are dealrm1ne<lto carry this struggle on to the wtDningof a new Union contract."

Farmworkers Struggle AgainstBrown and Hill

Juan Garanburo: "Many scabs leave because theycan no longer stand the speed-ups."

GREENFIELD, Cal ifornia -- Our sistersand brothers of the tomato company, Brownand Hill, have been on strike for more thansix weeks in a struggle to force the com­pany to negotiate a new Union contract.

Ernesto Garcfa, a member of the RanchCommittee, told EL MALCRIADO: "Wehada Union contract with that company for morethan two years. We had already thought outthe wage increases we needed, but thecompany broke off the negotiations andhired labor contractors and scabs to do theharvest. With this, the company tried tohumiliate the Union and us. So we went onstrike."

During the weeks that the workers havebeen striking, the company has done every­thing possible to break the strike:• provocatior.s, false arrests and other

forms of intimidation by local police au­thorities called in by the company.• breaking of strikers' car windows by

grower goons, while police look the otherway.• the company has hired Joe Silva and

other labor contractors to bring in strike-breakers, many of them students.

The company has hired about 200 scabs,but they are not enough: to replace the350 workers it needs. Also, the picket­lines, backed by Unl.on workers from Paul

Masson, Fresh- Pict, D'Arrigo, Victoria andInter-Harvest, are so effective that about25 workers leave the fields daily.

..in.attempt to reco_ver the money they arelosing, tile company, [ts supervisors, Joe.Silva and his foremen are pushing theirstrikebreakers very hard in order to makethem produce more and more.

Juan Garanburo told us that Jaime andPascual Gonzalez, Javier Blanco and An­tonio Reyes, all from King City, left theirjobs as strikebreakers because they couldno longer stand the f,,=-~quent speed-ups.

Other scabs say they leave because thelabor contractors and the foremen favortheir own families by crediting them withmore buckets of tomatoes than they havereally picked, while the rest of the workersare shortchanged.

Also, the rents at the company's laborcamp have almost doubled.

The Union contract stipulates that weeklyrents must be no more than $7.50 for aroom, $13.50 for two rooms and $17.50 fora trailer. Now that there is no contract,the company charges its strikebreakers$15.00 per week for a room, $20.00 fortwo, and $25.00 for a trailer, apart fromgas, electricity and water.

The company wants to break the strikeand destroy the Union in Greenfield andKing City and go back to the days whenit could exploit the workers Without limit.But the strikers are struggling with a lotof determination because ~y know withsolidarity and persistence they will findvictory. i SI SE PUEDE~

Elena Amezcua: "We are happier inmaking the sacrifice of being on strikethan making the sacrifice of being ex­ploited on the job ... l"

to sell the paper they should sell it every­where--in labor camps, post offices,dances, wherever there is a chance."

Arturo Amezcua, Teresa's brother, endedour conversation with the following: "Withthe Union we are treated with more re­spect, we are treated much better in thefields. I have worked at non-Union lettuCecompanies where there is no contract toproteCt farmworkers. There, if the fore­man dislikes you for some reason, it's"get out of :here, you're fired." Butwherethere are Union contracts, they have tofind a really big reason for firing you."

EL MALCRIADO is proud to have spokento the members of this great farmworkerfamily. May they always continue to bededicated to our struggle for justice andliberation. i QUE VIVA LA CAUSA1

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a dedicated distributor and reporter for EL MALCRIADO even though three ofher car windows have been smashed: "Sometimes when I go to town, insteadof taking my wallet in which I have my driver's license, I reach for a bunch ofE L MALCRIADOS to sell and there I go."

WHICH WAY WILL THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH INTER HARVEST GO?For a full report, be sure to read the next issue

of EL MALCRIADO!

Our movement is one of hard work andmany sacrifices. Whenever EL MAL­CRIADO travels it finds new faces, facesof our sisters and brothers who are out­standing in their dedication to La Causa.

In the salinas Valley we were honoredto talk with members of the Amezcua family,strikers against Brown and Hill and un­failing distributors of our newspaper, ELMALCRIADO.

Mrs. Elena Amezcua told us: " BeforeCesar came here, we were already or­ganizing farmworkers for the Union inGreenfield, Soledad, Gonzales and Salinas.During the Strike in i970, more than 600people left the fields where we were pick­e ting. We struggled on the letter campaignagainst the anti-farmworker bill S.B. 40.And now, we are getting ready to fightagainst Proposition 22."

We asked her if it was not hard to make,so many sacrifices in order to have a Union.She answered: "Weare happier making thesacrifice of striking than sacrificing our­selves in the fields because on the job wewere always having conflicts with the su­pervisors and the foremen. Here on thepicketline we at least have the chance totalk to each other and to the scabs. We areno longer afraid of either the scabs northe police."

When we talked with Teresa Amezcua,daughter of our sister Elena, she talkedenthusiastically about her volunteer workas distributor and reporter for EL MAL­CRIADO. She said: "I never dreamed Iwould have such a responsibility of whichI am very proud. I want to continue co-.operating with the selling of EL MAL­CRIADO. I started with 176 in sales everytwo weeks; and now, my sales are up to350."

Teresa explained that farmworkers inGreenfield and King City really enjoy ELMALCRIADO. She hopes to organize more·people to distribute the paper throughoutthe rest of the salinas Valley. Teresa de­clared: "I want to tell all of the readersof EL MALCRIADO that if they volunteer

INTERVIEW WITHFAMILY OF MILITANT

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David Chu, Clinic volunteer.

Relations with the Immigration Servicehave not fared so well. '!Wo months be­fore the Clinic opened, Eliseo Medina, thenUnion organizer for the area and now work- .ing in Florida, made arrangements withEldon W. Woolley, Officer in Charge of theCalexico border, to facilitate the use of theClinic by Union members liVing in Mexico.

The arrangement worked reasonablysmoothly for a while. But, as reported re­cently in EL MALCRIADO, Woolley recentlychanged the policy and is no longer allow­ing delivery of babies or hospitalization.Furthermore, the Immigration Service hasrefused to facilitate passage for personsgoing to the Clinic. As a result sick peopleare often required to wait an hour or twoin the hot Calexico sun before they canproceed to their appointment.

Nonetheless the Clinic has maintained ahigh standard of medical care for KennedyPlan members. David Chu, a second yearmedical student at UCLA who worked at theClinic this past summer, feels that patientsare getting "excellent medical care at acost much lower than elsewhere.Of

Ken Tittle, one of the two doctors servingat the Clinic, said that the Clinic is "givingvery good care to a large number ofpatients," noting that the CliniC's work­load fluctuates between 20 and 35 patientsa day. Ken said· that the problems at theborder are the major difficulties in main­taining and improving Clinic services.

The rest of the Clinic staff includes:John Cummings, the other doctor; CarolTraynor, Clinic nurse; Cristi Willison, apara-mediC who does field visiting in Me­xico along with Yolanda Leal of Mexicali;Jamie Zazueta, a para-mediC who is alsoa Mexican citizen; Virginia "Viki"Zazuetawho serves as a receptionist; Maida Cum­mings and Diana Tittle, who do laboratoryanalysis for the Clinic; Ann McDowell,receptionist; and Nancy Garcia, who re­cently joined the Clinic as a secretary.

Pantal~on C~r.ona Gutierrez has injured arm examined by Dr. John Cummingsat CaleXICo ClImc.

The Calexico Clini c strives to give farmworkers the best in medical care.

inary diseases in order to increase theirprofits. They were fired. They counteredby initiating a suit convincing the Mexicangovernment to impound the Clinic's equip­ment.

Clinic personnel got wind of the comingimpoundment and, late one night with thehelp of several Union members, hurriedlygot the equipment out of the Clinic andacross the border.

The Clinic reopened in Calexico onJune I, 1972, follOWing several weeks ofnegotiations with the City of Calexico, theCalexico Hospital and the U.S. ImmigrationService. At first both the City and thehospital were hesitant about recognizing theClinic. But at the time, Calexico had onlytwo doctors, so that the two the Clinicbrought along effectively doubled Calexico' sdoctor population.

Moreover, the Clinic supplies the hospitalwith about $3,000 worth of business a monthin referrals, hospitalization and lab tests,and the hospital has found that the RobertF. Kennedy Medical Plan pays its billsfaster than other insurance plans. So,with the help of Calexico City CouncilmanLouis Legaspi, the City was persuaded torent the Clinic use of a recently-builtmedical facility for outpatient care,locatedright next door to the hospital. PhilipTraynor describes relations with the Cityand the hospital since then as "e~cellent.··

. for that offense--they caught him sweepingthe floor of the Clinic. His release wasarranged through the purchase of an auto­mobile for one of the local authorities.-­even then, he was forced to leave Mexi­cali by April 15.

Also, the Union found that the Mexicalidoctors whose services we had purchasedwere inflating their bills and treating imag-

Dr. Ken Tittle of the Calexico Clinic.

taleon at the border. He called the Mexi­cali hospital to make the final arrange­ments with Pantaleon's family. None werethere, and the hospital switchboard refusedto let him talk to their patient. Pantaleonstayed where he was until his release.

Pantaleon's story amply illustrates thekind of struggles that the Calexico Clinichas had in its efforts to ·bring medicalservices to Union members in the Mexi­cali-Calexico area.

Troubles in Mexicali, troubles in Ca­lexico, troubles at the border. Some ofthe problems have been solved--the Clinichas established an excellent relationshipwith the City of Calexico and its hospital-­but some, especially problems with the bor­der patrol, remain.

The Union Clinic was originally located inMeXicali, and opened its doors to Unionmembers in December of 1970. From thebeginning, the Clinic's administrator, PhilipTraynor, was under continual harrassment

, from the local authorities for working with­out papers. They finally threw him into jail

Calexico Clinic field workers Yolanda Leal (foreground) and Cristi Williams~ive Jamie Flores an anemia test at his home in Mexicali.

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The Calexico Clinic continues to makeevery effort to reach Union members andserve their medical needs despite the prob­lems posed first by the Mexican governmentand most recently by the U.S. ImmigrationDepartment.

A few months ago Pantaleon Corona Gu­tierrez, SO, farmworker and Union member,was involved in an automobile accident inMexicali, suffering serious injuries to hischest and right shoulder and wrist. He wastaken to a civil hospital in Mexicali wherehis injuries received little or no treat­ment---they didn't even set his brokenwrist. So he called the Union's CalexicoClinic for assistance.

Philip Traynor and Nancy GarCia

Philip Traynor, administrator of theClinic, made every possible effort to se­cure treatment for Pantaleon in the Ca­lexico area. He immediately called JamesH. Smith, administrator of the CalexicoHospital, but Smith refused admission be­cause Pantaleon was not a local residentand, at the time, the Kennedy Plan was notaccepted by the Hospital. .

Philip called the next nearest hospital,inEl Centro, and was similarly refused. Heknew also that there would be some diffi­culties in getting Pantaleon, not an Ameri ­can citizen, through the border for hospi­talization.

But he finally found a hospital bed forP antaleon, made arrangements with theborder patrol for his admission, and hadeven arranged for the Calexico Fire De­partment to have an ambulance meet Pan-

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Among trial defendants testifying at thecommission hearings were sammy Gon­zales, Agustina Gutierrez, Manuel Echa­verria. Jesus Ortiz, Carmen Magana, MaryBaca and Fermin Sepulveda.

During this past year a group of parentsin the Guadalupe SChool District formedthe Comire Consejero de Edueacion deGuadalupe to help the school district im­prove its education program. SChool sta­tistics show only seven percent of the stu­dents graduating from eighth grade go onto high school Less than one percentbegincollege.

Comire members singled out for prose­cution were Fermin Sepulveda, ManuelEchavarrfa. Agustina Gutierrez, CarmenMagana, sammy Gonzales. Jesus Ortiz andMary Baca.

Mrs. Agustina Gutierrez, one of the "GuadalupeTen", collapsed in court.

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Among persons teStifying for the prose­cution was Annette Stewart, principal ofMain _SChool in Guadalupe and wife ofJustice Court Judge Robert Stewart. JudgeStewart, in a recent interview with theSanta Barbara News and Review. described"all our Mexicans" as "happy" and statedthere was no trolible in Guadalupe untilthe Union came and told them they wereunhappy."

Guadalupe schools we~ th~subjectofthe

first U. S. Ciyil Rights C_ommission hearingin a California rural area last spring inSanta Marfa. During the hearings severalof the defendants were among those tes­tifying that children's mouths had beentaped and the tape wound around the chil­dren's head and through their hair indisciplinary action by teachers.

At that time SChool SUperintendent Ker­mit McKenzie told the commission he didnot consider such punishment "cruel or

Carmen Magafia one of the "Guadalupe Ten",with her five-week old son Antonio.

-off - his big fancy car, he lives in one ofthe slummlest houses in Guadalupe.

Whenever we have a fiesta there comesRudy Pili with pen in hand to take downlicense plate numbers. In the fields hecooperates with the supervisors and thelabor contractors to push the people hard.

But it does not matter how many timesRudy Pili and the other lackeys of thegrowers mistreat and fire them from theirjobs, farmworkers in .Santa Marra con­tinue to stand firm with La Causa. Weshall overcome no matter how many RudyPills get in our way. rViva La Causa!

Mrs. Juanita Estorga (middle), one of the "Gua­dalupe Ten", with Witnesses.

SANTA MARIA, California -- Seven ofthe "Guadalupe Ten" were convicted oncharges of disrupting a public meeting lastweek at the Santa Marfa Municipal Court.The charges stemmed from a March 16parent-Teacher Club meeting in Guadalupeattended by 300 to 400 farmworkers andUnion supporters.

Mel O'Campo, who travels throughout thecountry, representing the growers and theJohn Birch Society, a notorious right-winggroup, was the main speaker. He procededto attack our Union and the Chicano Move­ment. RealiZing that t.'1e meeting was inreality rx>litical in nature, the people beganto clap and shout in opposition to O'Campo'slies and distrotions.

After the meeting, santa Barbara CountyDistrict Attorney David Minier filed chargesagainst ten of the 400 persons who werepresent. Convicted were Fermin Sepulveda,Manuel Echavarda, Agustina Gutierrez,Carmen Magana, Sammy Gonzales, - Mar­garita Cabello, and Jesus Ortiz.• JuanitaEstorga and Mary Baca were acquitted.

Sentencing is set for September 15 andconviction carries a possible six- month jailterm and a fine of $500.00.

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of the Growers

SEVENOF THE GUADALUPE TEN UNJUSTLY CONVICTED

Every farmworker in the valley of santaMarra knows Rudy Pili, a grower goon andfirst among scabs.

During the Strike in 1970 he joined withthe growers and labor contractors in all oftheir attempts to break the Strike and des­troy our Union. Since then he has beenone of the growers' most faithful cat'spaw.

And the way he attacks La Causa, onewould say that the growers and their alliespay him plenty for his anti-farmworkermoves. But in reality he sold himselfcheap. Although he goes around showing

STRI KE AGAINST FARAH

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tor Gaylord Nelson (D•• WiscOnsin) hasbee.n formed to support the 3,000 workers

-strIking the Farah ManufacturingCompany,a Texas pants maker.

Senator Nelson said the committee's pur_.pose would be to call upon all Americans.to support labor's Boycott of Farah prod-'uCts, raise funds to aid the workers andtheir families and call attention to "thenature of the dispute."

Farah is charged with using vicious dogsmlddle-of-the-night arrests, personal in:tlmidation and coercion, court orders ban­ning peaceful picketing and firings for unionactivity.

"The need here" Nelson said, "is thesame as it is in assisting migratory workersand the men who work in grape orchardsand lettuce fields."

The strike which began in May in twoSan Antonio plants has ~pread to plants inEl Paso, Victoria, Texas, and Las Crucesand Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota - - Workers at Goodwill Industries, after threedays of job-actions and a strike, won the right to organize at their Minneapolisplant, the largest and most profitable Goodwill in the country. Many "handi­capped persons work for Goodwill, but many other workers are not. Yet thebeginning pay for some workers is 35 cents an hour. Top pay is $1.75 an hour.

The workes first organized a two-day sick call action, which managementtook as a bluff. So on the third day, Goodwill workers called a full-scale strikeshutting the Minneapolis plant down. Management capitulated the same day tosave itself from public scandal and recognized the workers' negotiating commit­tee and their right to organize.

Striker S~nt And Killed Bv Security Guard

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania - - Norman Rayford, 34, of the Hospital Wor­kers, Local ll99, was shot and killed by a security guard while walking on apicketline in front of Metropolitan Hospital, one of five hospitals where the Hos­pital Workers are striking for contract renewal and a 50·cent an hour pay raise.

After the Shooting, Sargeant John Daniel of Diamond Security Corporation,claimed Rayford "lunged at me with a six-inch knife", but later admitted hepulled out his gun first. Daniel was arrested on a charge of self-defense andlater released.

Henry Nicholas, Director of Organization for Local ll99-C stated: "I neverknew Rayford to carry a weapon." During a memorial service at the hospitalthe day after the slaying, Nicholas was handed an Injunction claiming the 600unionists gathered to honor the memory of Brother Norman \was a "threat tothe community". A few minutes later he was arrested for refusing to end theservice in "violation of the Injunction."

The Hospital Workers are strong supporters of our Union and quick to aidthe Philadelphia Boycott organizers in their work. Our Union Director CesarChavez sent a telegram to brother Nicholas: "Brother Rayford's death willnot be in vain. His los<; will serve to act as an inspiration to us all In the labormovement and remind us again of the urgent need to work towards the daywhen brothr will care about brother."

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M1rine and S~ipbuildinq Horkers Hin Wage Increase

DETROIT, Michigan -- The prisonersat Jackson and Marquette State Prisons arepetitioning the Michigan Employment Re­lations Commission for recognition as alabor union in an attempt to form the firstofficially established prisoners' labor unionin the history of the United States.

Prison officials have done their best tos mash the prison labor union movementby punishing prisoners sympathetic to thethe union drive with Isolation. arbitrarytransfers and denial of visitor rights.

But the inmates know they are entitledto the right to organize because the statemakes about $100 million a year on theirlabor.

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FAIRFIELD, Maryland -- The Marine & Shipbuilding Workers won a wage andfringe benefit package of $1. 14 an hour over three years for 5,500 employes ofBethlehem Steel Corporation after a 13-day strike at company shipyards situatedin Maryland, MassachusettS and New Jersey.

As the workers began returning to the Bethlehem yards, another 1, 700 membersof the union struck the Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock Company at Fairfield,Maryland -- not only over a new contract, but also over a company proposal forconsolidation of departments that would cost an untold number of jobs.

BROWNSVILLE, KENWCKY -- Eugene Hamptlon, 27, died from a bullet woundin his chest fired by a strikebreaker. Eugene volunteered to take all-night picketdL y during the strike by the Ladies' Garment Workers against the Kellwood Compa'1Y for union recognition.

Two hours after the shooting, Harvey Gonterman was arrested and chargedw h the willful murder of Eugene, but was later released on $10,000 bail from11.1 nfordsville jail.

n tribute to Eugene, who had received the highest pay scale at the plant butst ongly believed in the right for workers to join a union, over 1,500 unioni';t<;fr m throughout the state marched in a heavy rain through downtown Brown.~\"ille

to the entrance of the plant where the slaying took place.:\ t this roadside memorial, a fellow striker, Aline Cumrn ings, stated: "\\ herever

men and women walk a picketline from now on asking for fair play, for a fairs~ are of the things of life for themselves and their families, for a little morehuman decency and respect, Eugene Hampton will be there."

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\10NROE, Michigan -- \!lore than 130 hospital workers, the majority women,both black and white, are struggling against Monroe \!lercy Hospital In the fourthmonth of their strike for humane working conditions, wages, and benefits.

:\lembers of Service Employes Local No. 79, AFL-CIO, the women work aslicensed practical nurses, nurses aides, housekeeping, dietary, kitchen and main­tenance workers - - the hospital jobs that traditionally get all of the dirty workand none of the benefits.

The workers get no sick days; no paid hospitalization (even though they work fora hospital), and a starting salary barely at the minimum wage level. Many ofthe women strikers are the sole support of their families.

The strikers on the picketlines endure harrassment and obsenities from po­lice, citize'1s and other hospital employees,. but they are determined to fightuntil victor)'.

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ONE THOUSAND WASHINGTON HOP WORKERS ,MEETPosible strike in Yakima Valley

_.IIGive me ten good people who are willing to work hard

and together we can beat all of the growers in the YakimaValley. II -- Manuel Chavez

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success. With the kind ot commitment anasolidarity expressed by everyone here to­day, there is nothing that the Farm Bureauor the agribusiness interests can do tostop the United Farm Workers Union fromtaking hold in the Yakima Valley and therest Of the state of Washington."

Everyone present agreed that there hasnever been a larger rally than this one inSunnyside, a City of about 6,000 people.Even the rally held when Governor DanEvans visited Sunnyside last spring wasnot as large as the one held Sunday. About800 Chicanos met with the governor lastspring to demand that he take a stand onthe Farm Workers Union issue by con­demning the actions of his fellow Repub­licans who were trying to pass repressivelaws to hinder unionization efforts through­out the United States.

Local Chicano leaders and candidatesfor public office this November urged thepeople to register, to vote and to carryeverywhere the message that' 'Si se Puede" ,poor people can change things if they re­gister now and vote in November forcandidates like George McGovern and thosestate officials who will represent all thepeople, including the farmworkers. Thecampaign t9 boycott scab lettuce was el­oquently stressed at the rally by the masterof ceremonies, Lupe Gamboa.

The rally, which lasted for four hoursand grew larger instead of smaller astime went by, ended with a play entitled.. Jonah" by the New York City StreetTheater. This group of very talentedactors captured the attention and the heartsof all those present with their ingenuityand talent.

SUNNYSIDE, Washington -- About 1,000farmworkers attended a mass rally here onSunday, August 13 at the beginning of the1972 hop harvest which is worth about 20million dollars.

During the rally Manuel Chavez, largelyresponsible for the good contracts won bythe farmworkers in Florida and Arizona,assured the hop workers of Washington ofthe Union's support and declared: "Give me10 good people who are willing to work hardand together we can beat all the growers'n the Yakima Valley."

He indicated that he was willing to debatewith any grower or labor contractor whothinks the Union is not good for the farm­worker. About the possibility of hop strikesto win a contract this fall, Manuel assuredthe farmworlc:ers of the Union's Willingnessto return and help them saying, "If they'reready to strike and ready to stick with it,we'll help them. It's up to them."

Other speakers at the rally included localfarmworkers like Vicente Castro fromGranger who read some of his verses whichhe wrote for this occasion, Cayetano Nanifrom the Seattle Boycott Office and othersupporters of the United Farmworkers fromthroughout Washington and Oregon.

Tyree Scott, leader of the United Con­struction Workers organization which isfighting for more minority hiring in allconstruction projects of Seattle, brought amessage of solidarity between the cause ofthe United Construction workers and thatof the United Farm Workers.

The two Washington Union organizers,Roberto Trevino and Lupe Gamboa, termedthe rally, "Absolutely beautiful. A grea~

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According to AFSCME International Rep­resentative Dick Sierra of Los Angeles,AFSCME now represents over 550,000 mu­nicipal employees throughout the countryand has brought benefits to another SOO,OOO."More than 1,000 municipal employees be­come voluntary dues-paying members eachweek," he said.

On August 15th, 4,600 clerical employeesof the City of Los Angeles voted to becomepart of AFSCME and AFSCME membersjust recently won a hard battle for betterwages and benefits against the Universityof California at Berkeley.

If you are a municipal employee and youwant a better life, says Cesar Chavez, voteAFSCME!

LA PAZJ California - - Union DirectorCesar Chavez announced our Union'ssupport of the American Federation of State,County and Municipal Employees AFSCMEAFL-ClO as that union enters into a crucialrepresentation election to take place Sep­tem~er 11 in Santa Monica, California.

Cesar praised Jerry Wurf, President ofAFSCME for the tremendous effort he hasmade into making AFSCMEa progressive,fast-gtowing union and for the untiring sup­port he has given our Union over the years.Recently AFSME donated $46,310 to LaCausa for our organizing efforts in Arizona.

'AFSCME had done for municipal em­ployees, what we hope to do for farmworkers. AFSCMEhas a lot of experience inbattling for the rights of municipal workers

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Farmworkers Struggle Against Brown and Hill

Workers and their supporters have gathered dally to protest die lowwages and poor working conditions at Brown & Hill Co.

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Pablo Lopez: "What en­courages us now is the tre­mendous solidarity shown tous by our fellow Union mem­bers throughout the area.They come to help us on thepicketlines and even bring usfood. They will not abandonIS."

Luis cantU and his family: "Before the Union, the company treated us verybadly. There were no opportunities for advancement. One mistake and you werefired·-many times without just cause. But now we have our rights and we aregoing to fight for them."

Paul and santos Vargas, White Rivers Farms striker~

Daniel Sanchez: "Our sac­rifice is not just for the work·ers who work for White RiversFarms, but for all other farmworkers as well. It is timewe taught the rich a lesson,that we want to live a betterlife too. We also want toeat at a table and sleep in abed, not sleep on the flooror eat off an empty grapebox. We want to put an endto those bad times."