Word: cesare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decade sometimes seem naive to embittered children of the '70s. We've redonned three-piece suits and high-heeled shoes. Tequila sunrises have given way to vodka martinis, love beads to lustrous pearls. We buy lettuce and grapes either because we've forgotten that we shouldn't or because Cesar Chavez's cause seems hopeless or because we've ceased to care about California's farm workers. And when we scan a semi-crowded subway car, we unconciously choose a seat next to a member of our own race. Slogans linger but they no longer resound with passion. Instead, they...
...bitter and sometimes violent struggle that dragged on for more than a decade, Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers Union battled the Teamsters in what the Chicano leader called an "all-out war" to organize workers in California's vineyards and truck farms. Last week, before television cameras, the two unions signed a peace treaty that gives the field hands to the U.F.W., and the canners, packers and farm-truck drivers to the Teamsters. The unlikely allies pledged to honor each other's picket lines, support each other's organizing efforts and cooperate in seeking legislation...
Holy Cause. Which leaves unanswered the real question: Why did the Teamsters give up a fight they had been winning? Under the agreement, the Teamsters will render unto Cesar workers whom they had been taking away from him. Using their financial resources and, according to the U.F.W., "goon squads," the Teamsters had already persuaded more than 50,000 of California's 250,000 agricultural workers to join them rather than the U.F.W. Chavez, who is better at persuading liberals to regard boycotting grapes and lettuce as a holy cause than he is at administering union services or efficiently parceling...
...Named for Augusto Cesar Sandino, a guerrilla leader who fought against occupying U.S. Marines in the late 1920s and was executed in 1934 by the founder of Nicaragua's ruling dynasty, Tachito's father Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Garcia...
...farmworkers' struggle is not confined to grapes or to California. After California there are Yuma lemons, Texas melons, Florida sugar, and Michigan and New Jersey truck farms. "In our struggle, we never really lose," says Cesar Chavez. "We have our unity, our solidarity, our spirit...