Word: chavez
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Every Last Penny. Reuther helped to lead the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, spoke out almost alone in labors high command against the Viet Nam War, strongly supported Cesar Chavez's grape strikers. He bubbled with social ideas: for a national medical-insurance plan and for a program to build low-cost housing for the poor, using assembly-line techniques. At the end of his life, he was talking about adding some form of pollution control to the demands that the U.A.W. will serve on the auto companies when bargaining begins this summer. Not all his enthusiasms bore...
Since 1965, Cesar Chavez has been leading la huelga (the strike) to unionize California's farm workers and win contracts from the state's powerful agricultural producers. He has concentrated on growers of table grapes, a product that requires intensive labor and is difficult to mechanize. Last week Chavez's United Farm Workers Organizing Committee finally dented the opposition. Three Coachella Valley table-grape producers agreed to contracts with UFWOC raising wages 10? an hour, to $1.75, and adding 22?-an-hour worth of fringe benefits. Said Chavez: "This is a very important...
Central to the union's limited victory was the nationwide boycott of table grapes that Chavez organized two years ago. That source of pressure, plus rising production costs and a bumper 1969 crop that lowered prices, has driven more than one-third of the 85 Coachella Valley table-grape growers out of business; 1,000 of the valley's 7,800 grape-producing acres have been abandoned. The three growers who reached agreement with Chavez last week have 1,100 acres of the remainder, harvest 1% of California's total table grape crop. One of the three...
Mixed Appetites. Though Chavez and a group of Coachella growers had negotiated inconclusively for a month last spring, this time there was an extra factor that made the renewed talks successful. In November, at the request of both growers and union supporters, a group of five Roman Catholic bishops, headed by the Most Rev. Joseph Donnelly of Hartford, Conn., intervened to appraise the issues. The prelates then took an active part in the discussions. That, said UFWOC Lawyer Jerome Cohen, "created an atmosphere for conciliation." The union has yet to reach agreement with other Coachella growers or with any producers...
...dissolving political labels, he is a radical-but not in the usual sense, and he is certainly a long way removed from New Left extremists. He has instructed white slums and black ghettos in organizing to improve their living and working conditions; he inspired Cesar Chavez's effort to organize California's grape pickers. His strategy was emulated by the Federal Government in its antipoverty and model-cities programs: the poor have been encouraged to participate in measures for their relief instead of just accepting handouts...