Word: chavez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beggars, taking morsels of food from the rich under the threat of an innocent woman's death, while Randolph Hearst seemed a man genuinely concerned for the welfare of the masses. The SLA's topsy-turvy tactics were condemned by Ramparts and a host of activists including Cesar Chavez, Huey Newton, Angela Davis, Jerry Rubin, and Jane Fonda. Even the Weather Underground expressed its sympathy for the SLA cautiously; only the Black Liberation Army, a Black Panther splinter group, supported the SLA with enthusiasm...
Those fiery words of five years ago illustrate the charisma that made Cesar Chavez a liberal hero and his United Farm Workers of America a power in the grape and vegetable fields of the Southwest. Today, another side of Chavez's personality is becoming painfully apparent: his talents as a union administrator scarcely match his gift for inspirational leadership. Partly as a result, his prediction has a hollow ring; the U.F.W.A. is fighting now to stay alive. Membership, which totaled 50,000 in California alone in 1971, is down to 10,000. Faced with the certainty that still more...
...Much of Chavez's trouble stems from an aggressive and sometimes violent drive by the Teamsters to oust the U.F.W.A. from the vineyards. But in addition, a growing number of Chicano farm workers who still revere Chavez have become disillusioned with the U.F.W.A. as a union. A major cause: poor administration by incompetent union officials of the hiring halls that the U.F.W.A. set up to break the power of unscrupulous labor contractors...
...whose four-year organizing drive has been conducted partly by ax-handle-wielding goon squads. Indeed, many farm workers seem ready to shun both unions. Last month, for example, the 100 employed at Keene Larson's 200-acre Coachella Valley vineyard-one of the first to sign with Chavez-voted two to one not to affiliate with either union...
...Chavez said the boycott has achieved greater success in Boston than in any other city...