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...manipulators. At one point in the middle sixties, he blurted out that the United States should send blood to the National Liberation Front, hardly a cagey political ploy. In the years before his 1968 bid for the Presidency, he traveled often to southern California, to help his friend Cesar Chavez and the United Farmworkers Union, working quietly in the days before the television cameras followed him everywhere...
...odds against Chavez are long. If many more growers sign with the Teamsters, his union could be wiped out; and most growers are eager to get rid of the U.F.W. at nearly any price. Many of those in the Coachella Valley signed Teamster contracts after only a single day of formal bargaining, during which, Chavez charges, no genuine farm workers sat at the negotiating table. The Teamsters accepted a contract calling for a wage of $2.30 an hour this year, a bit less than the $2.40 that Chavez got for his followers, and also allowed growers to bring back...
This month Chavez will visit AFL-CIO headquarters to ask the labor federation's support for a new nationwide grape boycott. It will be much harder to popularize, though, than the boycott that became a flaming liberal cause toward the end of the '60s. Chavez this time cannot ask consumers to shun all grapes, only Teamster-picked ones, and shoppers have little way of telling which those are. Chavez has strong verbal support from the AFL-CIO, which booted the Teamsters out 15 years ago; but as yet he has received no federation money -and his union...
...passionate loyalty of many of its members. Some migrants, however, have complained about the union's inefficient management. Hiring halls, for instance, have sometimes broken up family work teams. The Teamsters do have some support among field hands, largely from Filipinos who resent the Chicano-dominated U.F.W. Chavez believes that a heavy majority of workers would choose the U.F.W. in a free vote, but he has no way of forcing...
Farm workers are not covered by the National Labor Relations Act, and Chavez does not especially want them to be, because that act forbids secondary boycotts-such as one directed against all the products of a supermarket that stocks non-U.F.W. grapes...