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...courts for the basic right to organize. Divide by migratory work conditions, torn by racial and ethnic suspicions, and attacked by hired goons, the farmworkers were still on their backs in 1965. Long hours, pesticides, child labor, and dangerous working conditions shortened many lives is those valleys before Chavez and the UFW began organizing...
...nation-wide boycott as carloads of union members crowd into old Chevies heading out of California. The point is that the UFW has staked all in this struggle; to back down, to call off the boycott would discredit them forever. And this is where things stand now: Chavez vows to break the growers and the Teamsters and the growers seem determined to use the Teamsters to drive, the UFW out of existence. And seen though Pearey is uncritical and uncomplicated in his approach you can't really fault him. When the lines are drawn so clearly, a person...
...economic necessity, not free choice. Many, finding the contract unenforced, have refused to pay dues. When Frank Fitzsimmons, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, went to speak in Salinas. Calif... in June 1974. "Teamster" lettuce workers left the fields to picket his conference. When Cesar Chavez went to Salinas five days later, 3500 "Teamster" lettuce workers went to a UFW rally...
...classic case of the signing of a "sweetheart" contract. A New York Times editorial summarized these events by saying that "taking advantage of the absence of any federal or state laws requiring union elections to determine the wishes of farm laborers. Gallo threw out the Chavez group and signed a four-year agreements with the Teamsters" (New York times. Sept...
...Republic (Dec. 7) also features an article on the UFW, called "Chavez Against the Wall," by Peter Barnes. The article is especially good for its fuller discussion of the UFW's tactics...