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...Arizona Ecumenical Council interviewed 71 non-union grape pickers in 1972. Sixty-five said they did not want to join the UFW and bitterly opposed Chavez, although many said they would like some union...
Public sympathy against Chavez and the UFW in Delano is so strong that Mayor Frank Herrara and Assemblyman Bill Ketchum have been elected decisively in recent years while they have openly and bitterly opposed...
There is other evidence that the workers do not support Chavez. In the spring of 1970, 8000 Coachella Valley farmworkers paid for a full-page signed ad in the Riverside paper asking growers not to sign with...
...Washington, 1200 farmworkers have petitioned the governor and the legislature for protection that would keep Chavez out of the state...
...farmworkers did not support Chavez and his strikes for many reasons. For one, he was not a farmworker himself. Also, he did not offer a substantial increase in wages (the contracts he finally signed in 1970 raised base pay ten cents an hour...