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"The Voice of the Farm Worker". . . ...

Published every two weeks in panis aft !\g118h yFarm Worker Press, Inc., P.O. Box 1060, Delano, Calif.Office of publication--l OZ Albany, Delano, Calif. Se­cond class postage paid at Delano,. Cal1f. Permit appl1­

ation pending. To subscribe at $2 a year or to submit news items, telephone725-9908 or write to P.O. Box 1060. #28 1-26-66--- IF YOU MOVE YOU MUST "LET US KNOW YOUR NEW ADDRESS.----

EDITORIAL: THE TRUTH TILL IT HURTS:THE GROWERS AND THEIR SERVANTS IN IDCAL GOVERNMENT HAVE USEDEVERY MEANS AT THEIR COMMAND TO DISCREDIT OUR GREAT STRIKE.THEIR CAMPAIGN OF 'LIES IS EXPOSED ON PAGE 10 OF THIS ISSUE OF ELMALCRIADO. THEIR COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE LOCAL PRESS (ESPECI­ALLY OF THE DELANO RECORD) MAKES IT Il:FFICULT TO MAKE THETRUTH KNOWN.

LIKEWISE, THEIR CONTROL OVER THE MINTS AND OOULS OF A FEW LABORCONTRACTORS.AND FIELD BOSSES HAS LED TO THE FORMATIONOF THEANTI- UNION, FINANCED BY GROWERS. LIKE THE KKK IN THE SOUTH,THEIR :MEETINGS ARE SECRET. BEFORE BEING THROWN OUT, EL MAL­CRIADO'S REPORTERS LEARNED THAT THE UNlON IS LED BY THE ES CA­LONA FAMILYWHO HAS BUILT ITS REPUTATION AND FORT{J.NE ON LI­QUOR, GAMBLING, AND SIMILAR ENTERPRISES.. ALSO LEADING THE ANTI­UNION ARE NOTORIOUS lABOR CONTRACTORS EUL BERONA AND FRANKHERRERA. LATER TIllS YEAR ELMALCRIAID WIlL RUN A SERIES OF AR­TICLES SHOWING THE PEOPLE EXACTLY HOW 1HESE MEN OPERATE, JUSTAS WE DID WITH JIM HRONIS lAST YEAR.

HONORARY MEMBERSHlffi IN '!HE ANTI-UNION ARE AVAILABLE TO GROW­ERS. AND LAST OF ALL, THE ANrI- UNION IS HIRING "BOUNCERS" TO MAKESURE THAT EL MALCRIAIDDOES NOT ATTEND THEIR MEETINGS. WEWlLLNEVERTHELESS TRY TO BRING YOU PICTURES TAKEN DURING THESE SE­CRET SCAB MEETINJS.

SINCE ITS HUMBLE BEGINNING OVER ONE YEAR AGO, EL MALCRIADO HASBEEN DEDICATED TO TELLING THE TRUTH, NO MATTER WID IT HURTS.AS A RESULT WE HAVE BEEN THROWN OUT OF OVER 150 STORES IN WHICHTHE PAPER HAS BEEN DISTRIBUTED. BECAUSE OF THIS WE HAVE BEENUNABLE TO REACH OUR FIRST-YEAR QRCULATION GOAL OF 15,000 PAIDCIRCULATION (OUR CIRCULATION IS NOW ONLY 11,000). WE HAVE ALSOLOST ADVERTISING BEX:::AUSE WE HAVE PRINTED THE TRUTH.

BUT THIS PAPER WILL REMAm THE VOICE OF THE FARM WORKER AND ITWILL RurHLESSLY OPPOSE TIDSE WHO GAIN BY EXPLOITING THE FARMWORKER. IT IS NOW 100 LARGE TO BE SILENCED, EVEN BY THE HIRE­LINGS OF CALIFORNIAvS BIlLION DOLLAR AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY. THECOUNCIL OF CALIFORNIA GROWERS LAST WEEK OPENED AN OFFICE INDELANO. THEIR JOB: TO WHITEWASH THE BRUTALITY, '!HE VIOLENCE,THE BRUTISH WORKING CONDITIONS WHICH HAVE AROUSED THE CON­SCIENCE OF A NATIdN.

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HEROES OF THE OCKSThese are a few of the people who have stopped tons of grapes fromleaving california on ships at San Francisco and Oakland. Because oftheir efforts, DiGiorgio Corporation is claiming a loss of $80, 000.They are ~1 kinds of people. One is a laborer, another a photographer;one is a professor, another a housewife, and two more are students.Left to right are BLAill STAPP, BART ABBOTT, JOHN LEGGETT, GU­NILLA MARTON, JOPE POSTHUMOUS, JIM BRAMELL, JAMES BEN­NETT, D\YID GOINS, DICK BOYDEN. Everyone of these personshas been arrested for defying court orders and continuing to picket. Al­so arrested and not in the picture were BRIAN HERRON and DOROTHYSTAPP. Some of them were held in jail for -several days. Abbott, se­cond from the left, is the grandson of JACK LONDON, the famous wri­ter, adventurer, and reformer, who, many years after his death, hasplayed a major role in the Strike in the Grapes. These people have allchosen to go to jail in order to fight for farm workers. Our debt of gra­titude to them is immeasurable. We who pick grapes are only fightingfor ourselves. They are fighting for an idea of freedom for all men,even farm v.orkers. To us, they are the real heroes of the Grape Strike.1111111I11I11111111I11I111111I111111I11I1111I111I11I1111I1111I111111I11I11111111I11I11I11I11I11111111I11I11I11I11111111I11I11I11I11111II111111111111111111111111mlllll 1111I11I 1111111111111111 11I11111111 1I1111111111111111W

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BOYCOTT!Boycott conmittees, now in action all over the United States, have sent reportsof fantastic successes back to the Boycott Communications Center three milesfrom Delano.

SAN FRANCISCO--groups of pickets here and in Sacramento have formed "fly­ing squads" of 30 or more pickets, which hit one liquor store after another withtheir demand that Schenley products be taken off the shelves. Roger Terronezof Corcoran is leading the San Francisco activities.

Their success has been fantastic. For exarqJle, they were able to "visit" 20liquor stores in four hours. 18 of the stores took Schenley products immediate­ly from their shelves; one did the next day; and one refused to help. The boy­cott squads work each night covering new areas of the city. Special workersare assigned to police the stores who agree to cooperate, to make sure they co~tinue to keep Schenley products and Delano grapes out of their stores.

SACRAMENTO--The same techniques are being used here with equal success.The owner of the largest liquor chain, Vic :M:1.ndela, took Schenley productsfrom his shelves in front of the TV ca:rreras.

LOS ANGELES--Because of the size of Los Angeles, the boycott action commit­tee under entertainer steve Allen and Gil Padilla of Hanford has split into 13groups. Members of the Thamsters and Retail Clerks Unions do spy work forthe Boycott, spotting Delano grapes. Padilla saw Delano grapes rotting in coldstorage in L A. They had been there since becember 1st, and wholesalerswere afraid to market them.

Safeway Stores of Los Angeles have pledged complete support of the boycott,clearing their shelves of all offensive brands. But the 'Thrifty Drug Stores haverefused to cooperate. They sell large quantities of Schenley products.

ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO, WEST TEXAS--M. R.Barraza, of the Union of Mine and Mill workers,is boycott chairman. He is sho\ID in the photowith llilores Huerta, of the Farm Workers Assoc­iation, who is making speeches all over the south­western United states, urging people to help inthe boycott. A powerful teachers group in YUMAhas formed a special committee to press the boy­cott in that city.

ATLANTA, GEDRGIA--Delano grapes and Schen­ley Products have been added to the list of "Ope-ration BrE'adbasket", the gigantic Negro boycott MRS HUERTA ON BORDER PATROLproject throughout the South. The project is led • __by Rev. Blackwell of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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. ICOpy OF A PAY STUB from Schenley in the pruning of the vines·

THE PICKET LINE: Half a Mile LongThe picket line in Delano is now sometimes as long as half a mile. The scabsare in small, isolated crews, working feverishly for wages that are temporari­ly inflated to $1. 40 an hour by the strike activity. The picket crews are strong­er, louder, more eloquent than ever before. The two portable loudspeaker sy&terns make the voice of La Huelga heard even in the center of the most remotevineyard. Filipino and Mexican huelguistas march side by side on the bleakcounty roads~ Most of the ministers and students have left for cities all overthe nation to help Boycott Action Groups.

The huge recruitment effort by the growers to get scabs from one thousandmiles of Mexican borderland is immoral, illegal and largely unsuccessful. Theborder patrol continues to catch an unusual number of wetbacks, brought hereby promises of a fast dollar by agents in border towns. The biggest of theseunsavory agents, Chamizal Farm Labor Agency in El Paso, has stopped sendingscabs to Delano because of pressure by Dolores Huerta, Association vice pre­sident, who is in El Paso.

Last week, over 100 Qut-of-the-area strikebreakers quit work because of pick­eting. They had not been informed that there was a strike when they werebrought in. Some of them had been told that they would work in oranges, andthen they were dropped into labor camps in the middle of the vineyards.

Schenley itself, and individual labor contractorswere taking huge pay deductions from the wor­kers' pay, as always. Because of the erratic,unsysterm.tic way in which the pruning was done,workers were often worked as little as one-and­one-half hours per day. At that rate, becauseof the deductions for "benefits" which the wor­kers never receive, they sometimes end upow~g the ranchers and contractors money.

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I ENOUGH PEOPLE WITH ONE IDEA I1 1

(Reprinted from EL MALCRIADQ #19,

before the Association joined the Stri~e. )

r----~-----------------------------------------I WHAT IS A MOVEMENT? IT IS WHEN THERE ARE ENOUGH PIDPLEI WITH ONE IDEA SO THAT THEIR ACTIONS ARE TOGETHER LIKE A HUGEI WAVE OF WATER WHICH NOTHING CAN STOP. IT IS WHEN A GROUP OF

PEOPLE BEGIN TO CARE ENOUGH SO THAT THEY ARE WILLING TOMAKE SACRIFICES.

THE MOVEMENT OF THE NEGRO BEGAN IN THE HOT SUMMER OFALABAMA TEN YEARS AGO WHEN A NEGRO WOMAN REFUSED TO BEPUSHED TO THE BACK OF THE BUS. THUS BEGAN A GIGANTIC WAVEOF PROTEST THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH. THE NEGRO IS WILLING TO·FIGHT FOR WHAT IS HIS: AN EQUAL PLACE UNDER THE SUN.

SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE THEY WILL SAY THAT IN THE HOT SUMMEROF CALIFORNIA IN 1965 THE MOVEMENT OF THE FARM WORKERSBEGAN. IT BEGAN WITH A SMALL SERIES OF STRIKES. IT STAETEDSO SLOW·LY THAT AT FIRST IT WAS ONLY ONE MAN, THEN FIVE, THENONE HUNDRED. .

THIS IS HOW A MOVEMENT BEGINS. THIS IS WHY THE FARM WORKERSASSOCIATION IS A 'MOVEMENT' MORE THAN A 'UNION'. ONCE A MOVE­MENT BEGINS IT IS IMPOSSffiLE TO. STOP. IT WILL SWEEP THROUGHCALIFORNIA AND IT WILL NOT BE OVER UNTIL THE FARM WORKERHAS THE EQUALITY OF A LIVING WAGE AND DECENT TREATMENT.AND THE ONLY WAY IT WILL BE DONE IS THROUGH ORGANIZATION.THE FARM WORKER MUST ORGANIZE TO FIGHT FOR WHAT IS HIS.

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WHAT IS A MOVEMENT? IT IS THE IDEA THAT SOMEDAY THE FARMWORKER WILL BE RESPECTED. IT IS THE IDEA THAT SOMEDAY HEWILL EARN A LIVING WAGE.

IT IS WHEN THE SILENT HOPES OF MANY PEOPLE BEGIN TO BECOMEA REAL PART OF LIFE.

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.... Send $2 and your address Envie $2 y su domicilio .... FARM WORKER PRESS-Box 1060, DELANO, CALIF.

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BISfHOP PLEADS--DON'T BREAK THE STRIKE!

The Bishop of El Paso, S. M. Metzger,in an appeal to the people of 'Iexas,expresses his concern over the DelanoGrape strike and asks that none of hisflock work as scabs for Delano grow­ers. In part, his statement reads,

"If workers fro.m the El Paso areaseek farm \\Ork in California, it ::s myreconnnendation that they do not accept,work in the strike area but in placeswhere the proper wage agreed by theGrowers and Unions is being paid. Im­portation of workers to break a strikevery frequently brings great hardshipson the workers, causes more bitter­ness and dissension, and makes justsettlement of a strike llDre difficult."

The Bishop of El Paso is a true shep­ard to his flock. Like Pope Paul, R>peJohn XXIII and Pope Leo XIII, his de­votion to the people and to justice islike Christs9

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In a special message last week CEsarChavez said, "Our Association ~f farmworkers thanks the Bishop of El Pasofor his aid in this fight for dignity andjustice.;;

BISHOP METZGER OF EL PASO

Ap1clIllure 18 Call!ornla'. most Important IDdu8try. It 18 .. protltable tIlat_ ""mpallle. lrom .. far a...ay .. EDcIaDd ba... mv.oteeI moll8f In Call!­ornla ","culture. EDormouo COrporatlolll IIUcll .. u.t which operate tilellIerra V!lta RaDch(D1GlDrgIn Corporation), till Call!ornla Pactlng Corpor.atIoD(Del Monte ProductII), the Gutmarra Corp., and tile giant 8unldIIt 0......and lemon cooperatlve. conduct their buoIn.... In agrIcullur. on pure opecu­1etIDIl. 'nle oal)' reuon there 18 .. much prollt In _ operatlolll 18 tIlatlbor pi)' ouch low _ ..

POPE LEO xm SAID:''By ..... It baa come'" puI u.t the IIolated and clef_I... worke.._",1lIID oubjected '" th~ eallouone•• of till emplnyers and,'" till flreed 01UIlbrtdled competition. To all thla there mUit be added the CWItom 01 lor­cine ..- '" work by contract. "

n.re are more u.n I, 000 Uc.llIed contractors operatlDc In Callfornla. ItII -.tIcI u.t 2, 000 more are operatiDI wttbout UcIllI8.. 'lbe men 01 tileFarm Worte.. AaIIoclat1on _vo; dedIcatecI them..lv.. '" fllbt UDCOndltlonally....- thla cruel and Immoralll)'stem.

POPE LEO xm SAID:"II a man falla, be Ibould be helped up by another maD. 'Iberefore It Ia

e _ ....cIat1ons 01 workers multlpl)' and become more elfOCU.... "

,nae _mpla of the _. '" ,destroy flrOupI 01 worker. are notorlnuo. Dur­m-............--~· .....·.,·_~, rten and mate tIlIm obey. 'lbe big farm.r. mate UI8 01 ....., po8BlblelepI. or WepI., In order'" cruah the Farm Workers A..oclat1ono.

POPE LEO xm SAID:''!t 18 beyOIllI doubt that It Ia lu.ot '" _" ald U the employ.rs plaoe unjust

'01 upon the" ...or".r., or deflr8de them wtthcoDdlt1onl which are re-, pupant '" tbeir d1BD1tJ &8 human belnp. "

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DOCTOR PAUL TAYLORProfessor at the

University of California

--Senator Paul Douglas

DOCTOR BEN YELLENCouncilman from Brawley

"One of the greatest landsteals that has ever been at­tempted in the history ofthis Nation. "

GEORGE BALLISEditor of the

Valley labor Citizen

ROLL OF HONOR

SENATOR PAUL DOUGLASDemocrat from lliinois

These men have led the fightagainst huge corporationslike DiGiorgio and Schenleywhich seek to pervert the:iemocratic system by misuseJf land and water:

one hand, Schenley steals federal water fromunderground with their own monstrous pumpingsystems. With the other hand, they pay fieldworkers wages that are so miserable that peo­ple allover the United States are refusing tobuy any of their products.

When taXpayers wake up and throw out the hugegovernment gifts to huge ranches, there mayagain be a hope for dem,ocracy in rural Califor­nia.

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huge free federal handout: billions of gallons ofwater every year to irrigate thousands of acresof high paying grapes. u. s. taxpayers pick upthe bill for this, the biggest ~lfare programofthem all.

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Schenley, who has its own pumps, says it doesnot use the free federal water system. This isa lie. Without the government water projectsto saturate the soil around Delano, Schenley9shuge wellswould long ago have run dry. With

The whole purpose of the Ex­cess Land law is to keep com­panies like Ilgiorgio and Schen­ley from getting huge landhol­dings. 'The idea of the law isto make it possible for peoplewithout much money to ownland. But under the terms ofthis sale, a poor farmer wouldhave to come up with $160, 000cash. DiGiorgio-controlledbanks will never lend anyonemoney to buy.this land, unlessthey agree to lease the landback to UGiorgio.

The prize for DiGiorgio is a

The "Excess Land Sale" is afraud. In the first place, it isillegal since the land under fe­deral regulations can be soldonly to people who will live onor near the land. Second, theprices are inflated. The landis supposed to be priced at itsvalue not including the valueof the water. $1500 an acreis too much.

DiGiorgio Corporation re­ceives the equivalent of $577in government money for eve·ry acre of land that they irri­gate. Now they are pre_tendingto sell their "excess land" un­der government regulationswhich limit the amount of freewater a grower can get.

~THE GROWERS VS. THE FACTSWeek after week, the growers crank out their lies about the strike, in their at­tempts to confuse the people. They are masters at inventing "facts" and propa­ganda, and sometimes sorre people get fooled. EL MALCRlAID once again ex­poses the lies and prints the ,truth:

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Lie #1: Growers claim that there'is no strike•• 0

The State Department of Employment has officially verified over two dozenstrikes around Delano. Governor Brown, friend of the ranchers, has beenforced to recognize this, and has announced that no workers will be sent to anyranches in the strike zone because of the disputeso

Lie #2: Growers claim that the strike involves only a few people. 0.'

In fact, over 2, 000 local workers have been on strike continuously since Sep­tembero In addition, almost 4,000 others have come out of the fields o Theyhave joined the strike and then migrated on toother areas outside the strike zoneo Workers /'from over a dozen states \IDO were brought into break the strike have now joined the strikers'When these migrants leave, they promise theywill not return until the workers have a con­tract and are guaranteed $1.40 an houro

Lie #3: Growers claim that the picketers areoutSiders, not local peopleo0 0

Actually, all the picketers for the last twomonths have been from Delano, Earlimart, MOo \Farland, or Richgroveo In recent days the .FWA picket crew alone has often run between150 and 200 peopleo Outsiders are still en­couraged to visit the picket lines to understandthe non-violent and moral nature of our strike, but religious people, students,and workers who want to aid the strikers can now work in their home communi­ties on the boycotto

Lie #4: Growers claim the unions don9t represent the workers .. 0

In fact, over 5, 000 v.orkers who were actually working on ~lano area graperanches have signed statements authorizing the unions, FWA and AWOC, to re­present themo This includes over 2,000 of the local work force in the grapeswho are active members of the unionso U>viously the scabs who are workingnow are not in the' uniono They were brought in after all the original workerswent on strikeo The State Department of Employment made a long official in­vestigation and determined that the strike really existedo If agricultural wor­kers were protected fairly by the laws, they would have held elections andforced the growers to bargain with them.

The Growers and California Farm B.1reau are experts of the Big Lie. Theirfalse staterrents about the Bracero program, about that "rotting" tomato croplast summer, about their water subsidies and special tax evaSions, are all pub­lic recordo EL MALCRlAID will not. let their lies about the strike go unchal­lenged.

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UFREEDOM FROM HUNGER"

The Tulare COWlty Welfare Department is putting on a false front in responseto pressure from the Farm Workers Association. The Association has chargedthat the Department is not properly enforcing welfare laws.

Last week the Welfare opened a shiny new office in PorterVille, for which theyare paying over $1,000 a IlDnth in rent. BUT NOT A SIN:iLE NEW PEROONWAS ADDED TO 'l'HEIR STAFF to handle the tremendous caseload..

Shiny new office buildings are not the kind of reform that the NFWA is demand­ing. Hungry children are not benefited by the fancy offices of the welfare wor­kers. Letts make them more productive. Letts get more intake workers, morecase workers. Letts get all the welfare laws operating.... not just the ones thatthe local administrations think should be enforced.

KNOW YOUR WELFARE RIGHTS

1. They cannot take your Welfare away for refus ing to work \\here there is astrike. There is a strike at all the Kern and Tulare Vineyards north of Famosoand south of Tipton. If you are denied aid for this reason, contact the NationalFarm Workers Association, even if you are not a member.

2. If you think you have been unjustly kept off welfare, you have a right to ahearing with the state government. You also have a right to go over all yourrecords at the Welfare Department.

DID YOU KNOW that the growers receive millions of dollars in governmenthandouts themselves, but they bitterly oppose the few hWldred dollars a monththat go to a needy family?

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"FREEDOM FROM HUNGER"

The Tulare County Welfare Department is putting on a false front in responseto pressure from the Farm Workers Association. The Association has chargedthat the Department is not properly enforcing welfare laws.

Last week the Welfare opened a shiny new office in PorterVille, for which theyare paying over $1,000 a IlDnth in rent. BUT NOT A SINiLE NEW PER~

WAS ADDED TO 'l'HEIR STAFF to handle the tremendous caseload..

Shiny new office buildings are not the kind of reform that the NFWA is demand­ing. Hungry children are not benefited by the fancy offices of the welfare wor­kers. Let's make them more productive. let's get more intake workers, morecase workers. Let's get all the welfare laws operating.... not just the ones thatthe local administrations think should be enforced.

KNOW YOUR WELFARE RIGHTS

1. They cannot take your Welfare away for refus ing to work \\here there is astrike. There is a strike at all the Kern and Tulare Vineyards north of Famosoand south of Tipton. If you are denied aid for this reason, contact the NationalFarm Workers Association, even if you are not a member.

2. If you think you have been unjustly kept off welfare, you have a right to ahearing with the state government. You also have a right to go over all yourrecords ~t the Welfare Department.

DID YOU KNOW that the growers receive millions of dollars in governmenthandouts themselves, but they bitterly oppose the few hundred dollars a monththat go to a needy family?

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CHICAGO, ILlINOIS--Seven unions, including the powerful United Auto Workersand giant United Packinghouse'Worker~are aiding the Catholic Church andfour Protestant denominations together with various civil rights and studentgroups. The entire Spanish-speaking commuJ?ity of Chicago has,stopped buyingSchenley products. (We hope that IDs Angeles will soon follow.) As of January25th, 150,000 leaflets have been given to the people of Chicago explaining theboycott.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN--The United Auto Worke':s are leading the boycott in thisarea, which is their' stronghold.

PITrSBURGH--Catholics, Episcopalians, Methodists, and Congregationalistsjourneyed to Schenley, Pennsylvania (a cOmpany town) to pressure Schenleyintonegotiating with the National Farm Workr,.':rs Association.

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NEW YORK--R>sters like the ,one in the picture arein the windows of thousands of stores in this, thebiggest city in the world. In Harlem, the huge Ne­gro district, the boycott is 95% effective. Groupsof volunteers are ready to picket the docks in defi­ance of court orders if they should try to unloadDelano grapes. Important people who are helpingthe strike have demanded visits with Schenley9spresident.

'-Is the boycott effective? some observers asked.In answer, some students took a survey in PaloAlto (near San Francisco). In six busy hours, thecity's largest liquor store sold one pint of Schenley whiskey. Then, last week,Purity Stores, one of the largest food chains in California, agreed to remove allSchenley products and D3lano grapes from its shelves in all its markets through­out the state.

Schenley, frightened (by the boycott,sent out a paper to all liquor stores.The paper said: "James E. Woolsey,vice president of Schenley Industries,Inc., said that the average hourly ratepaid to grape pickers is $2.73. "

EL MALCRIAID publicly calls thisman a liar. If you are not lying, Mr.Woolsey, we suggest that you sue us.The law provides heavy penalties fornewpapers who call people liars whenthey are not. We will say it again: thevice president of Schenley's is a liar.

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Pickets were run down by cars in thegreat New Mexico mine strike of 1951­1952. After one year and four monthsof striking the strikers wm the hard-, .fought battle against mining companIesin Bayard, New ~xico.

When the workers--mostly Mexican­Axrericans--went on strike, the com­pany went to the courts and got courtorders to stop the picketing. (Doesthis sound familiar?) The men wereall arrested and the women and chil­dren took over the picket line. It wasduring this time that a scab broke thelegs of Mrs. Martinez (in the photo)with his car.

After 16 months the cOIlllany gave in,recognized the union and signed a con­tract guaranteeing higher wages. Agreat movie called "Salt of the Earth"was nade from the story of the strikeof these miners.

The union, Local #890 of the Mine,Mill and Smelter Workers, is nowhelping Mrs. Iilerta in her "Stop theScabs" effort in New Mexico and WestTexas. They sent $260 to o"ur strike.

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More Battles in theWar on Poverty

In the last issue of EL MALCRIAOO itwas stated that Mrs. Floyd Villanuevaof Corcoran was opposed to farm wor­kers and wanted to get her hands on theWar on Fbverty money. It was statedthat l\1rs. Villanueva, the sister of alabor contractor and the wife of a tru­cker--friend of "Patroncito" Boswell,had lost the poverty committee elec­tion to Mike Navarro.

Here is what really happened: :MikeNavarro, FWA member, asked Mrs.Villanueva to run in the election. Shewas selected as an alternate memberof the Poverty Committee. She has thetrust of Navarro, who is an officer ofthe Farm Workers Credit Union and arespected xrember of the Farm Worka-sAssociation.

Mrs. Villanueva has written to ELMALCRIAOO, saying that her intentionsare sincere and that it is her right andduty to help in the poverty program.EL MALCRIAID is sorry to have sta­ted a malicious opinion about her.

We will continue to \\Qtch these pover­ty committees and to report to the peo­ple about them. The spotlight nowturns to Delano, where some of theworst people in town are trying to gettheir sticky fingers into the big federalmOileypot.

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GRAPE GROWER H. K. NELSON MADE SOME INTERESTINJ CONFESSIONSAT A MEETING OF MINlSTEH3 RECENTLYo YES, HE ADMlTTJ:;D; MANYGRAPES WERE LEFT ON THE VINE THIS ~AR. THE REASON, HE SAID,WAS 1HAT"IT COST $18 TO PICK THEM AND YOU GET $15 FROM THEWINERIEB." WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SELL TO THE WINERIES, MR. NEL­SON? BECAUSE YOU GOT BEHIND IN YOUR HARVEST AND THE GRAPESWERE ROTTING OR OVER-RIPE? BECAUSE SCABS FroM TEXAS AND IDSANGELES lID NOT 'KNOW lION TO FIELD-PACK THE TABLE GRAPESPROPERLY? IF YOU HAD HIRED EXPERT PICKERS FOR YOUR GRAPES,MR NELSON, AND PICKED THEM AT THE RIGHT TIME, YOU COULD HAVESOLD THEM AS TABLE GRAPES AND GOTTEN BETWEEN $200 AND $300 ATON, INSTEAD OF $15. SAVE YOURSELF THE TROUBLE NEXT YEAR ANDSAVE THE CROP. SIGN A CONTRACT AND PAY $1. 40 AN HOUR.

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DELANO POLICE CHIEF AILES AKJRILY DENIED BRUTALITY CHARGESWHICH EL MALCRIADO HAD LEVELED AT HIS FORCEo

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THOSE 'IURKEYS AGAIN! THE DELANO RECORD(WHICH INCIDENTALLYRECEIVED OUR OWN IDOBY PRIZE AWARD FOR THE "BEST FICTION OF1965") RAN A HUGE PAGE ONE HEADLINE READING "GROWERS SAY TUR­KEY STORED". THE CORCORAN JOURNAL HAD EARLIER SAID THAT THEUNION 0 FFICIALS WERE STEALINJ AND EATING ALL THE DONATED TUR­KEYSo NOW 1HE RECORD, WHOSE PRESS IS IN THE SAME BUILDING AS 1HEASSOCIATION FOOD LOCKER, PRIN'IS CHARGES THAT OC>MEOF THE TUR­KEYS WERE STIlL THERE (EXACTLY EIGHTY~FOURAS OF WEDNESDAY,THEY SAID). FRIEIDS, THAT'S 84 OF '!HE REASOm WHY IT'S Pa3SIBLETO CONTINUE THROUGH THIS LONG HARD WIN1ER. IF YOU ID ANY l\DRESNOOPINJ IN OUR FOOD LOCKER, YOU WILL ALOC> FIND ABOUT 200 LBS.OF FROZEN FIS~ GFT OF A NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HATCHERY. 200MORE REASOm.

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THE AWOC UNION HAS DONATED MONEY 'IO THE FILIPINO HALL TOMOOERNIZE THE KITCHEN THERE. AWOC FED ALL THE STRKERS,UNTIL IT BECAME POSSffiL.E TO SET UP ~NOTHER KITCHEN FOR THEN. F. W. A. PICKETS.

FA·RM WORKERS' THEATREr

The Teatro Campesinowas conceived and cre­ated by lnis Valdez, na­tive of Delano, farmworker, and a very ta­lented actor and direc­tor. At right he is seens~ng one of the songsof the Huelguistas, ac­companied by Augie Li­ra on the guitar, andErrol Franklin. Songs,skits and dialogues nll.keup the lively entertain­ment of the production.

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The scene at the left isfrom one of the skitsperformed by the Tea­tro. The rich grower"Patroncito" (played byAugie Lira) ~ongratu­

lates the ~cab "Esqui­rol" (played by SantosDiaz) on being contentwith $1. 20 an hour. "Youare lucky to be workingfor me, " Patroncitotells the poor farm v.or­ker. Later the scabhears the call of theHuelguistas to stand upfor his rights.

OUR COVER shows Augie Lira playing Governor Brown in one of the Skits.Like a pile of mashed potatoes, .the Governor has proved spineless in resistingthe insatiable greed of the growers for special ~rivileges and favors. Gover­nor Brown has done nothing to help the striK:9 and the struggle of farm workersfor justice, while his Department of Employment and Attorney GeneraPs Of­fice have either deliberately helped the growers or shut their eyes to discrimi­nation 'and grower violations of the law. The Gov~rnor brought in thousands ofbraceros for the growers this year, even though Congress had outlawed the

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Bracero program. Does G:>vernor Brown know that he is hurting the people,or is he just plain dumb?

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Return 'Rjjkellt!fl:PARM i at PRESS, INC.P.O. B(]l 1060DELANO, CALIPCENIA

DON'T B'UY DELANO GRAPESOR SCHENLEY PRODUCTS!

TO AID THE BOYCOTT IN YOUR AR EA:

BOYCOTT CHECK LISTTABLE GRAPESPRODUCTS

L Call an emergency meeting of your group to form an !~.!:J.()_c~ommirtee to aidthe farm workers' strike. Delegates from potentially interested and sympathetic groups:civil rights, church. union ... should also be· invited.

2. Se.nd a delegation to the Retail Clerks L'nion. inform them of th,e boycott. and asktheir cooperation. They might (unofficially) advise a large chain-store not to buy Del<\noor Schenley produc-ts. This union could also collect all canned foods returned by thechains and send them to the NF\\'A office in Delano for families of strikers.

3. Send a delegation to the management of selected chains and ask them officiallynot to buy Delano grapes or Schenley products. You may tell the management. thatyou intend £0 use a consumer informational boycott: but you're forbidden by law to usethreats of coercion or a l!eneral boycott of the SlOre.

4. Set up (after ~~'I an informational consumer picket in front of selected chains.This kind of informational picket means you hand out leaflets to all customer~ entering

the store and ask them to respect the boycon.IN ,~DDITIO~ to: this kind of picket line we would also like to see some lines with

signs and placards urging customers not to buy these products. We leave this. kindof picket line for you to decide where and when and what kind because you know ho\"you can be most effective in your area.

SCHENLEY

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BourbontW. HARPERANCIENT AGEJ.W. DANTDLD CHARTER

WinesROMACRESTA BLANCADUBONNET

The stru~ ranches are: DiGiorgio, Schenley, Bianco, Gui­marra, Dispoto, Zaninovich (George, Marion, Marko and Vin·cent), Fukuhara, Caric & Sons, Cesare, Sandrini, Missakian,,Steele, Pandol, Radovich (Jack and Gene), Pagliarulo, Patti­Bono, Divizich, Tudor, California Grape Products, Lucas, Cara­tan (A. and )I.), Lucich, Franzia, W. B. Camp, Goldberg, Dulcich,Elmco, Buzani~h, Jasmine, Pavich, Childs, Setrakian Gutunich.

Boxed fresh. grapes are packed and shipped by the abovegrowers under the following labels: LBL, Sweet Cluster, Heri­tage, Arra, Miss Bute, Supersweet, Lindy, etter Test, Quality,Sno-Boy, Jovista, Flamingo, Me Extra, Scotsman, Roxie, Treas­ure, Steady, Camelot, Zora, Alila-, Bonophil, Tudor, Tuxedo Park,Royal Delano, Royal K, Radovich, Sall-n-Ann, Trocha, Gee Jay,Verko, Jindy, Rodes, Cashmere, 3 Brothers, PBI, Marlin, Sprin~­

time, Highlands, Vinland, MC, Blue River, PIA, Silver Knight,Silver King, Columbine, Antone's Quality, Prosperity, Honeyee, Caric, Hi Style, Louis IV, Better Test, A and A, Steele, BlueFlag, Jovista, Kenney, Jr., Del-Vin, Mr. KK, !:>iamond S, AllAmerican, Thomas, New y:orker, Banquet, Rennie Boy, Moses,Vines Best, Delano King, El Toro, Delano Gold, Sun Best, Sun­view, Sierra Moon, Mother's, Mary-Jo, Early Mart, VBZ.