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...Cesar Chavez, president of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, spoke in the afternoon at PBH and at night at Lowell Lecture Hall...
...Chavez claimed that employers have an immense illegal source of scab labor in 18,000 Mexicans who cross the border every day as strikebreakers...
Since the strike began 27 months ago, students have worked steadily to eliminate "scab" grapes from stores across the country. They have been especially successful in Boston, which is 75 per cent "clean," said Chavez...
Strike Leader Cesar Chavez, a portly, near-paranoid disciple of Agitator Saul Alinsky, insisted that no Anglos could ever understand the confusion of injustices that his Mexican-American workers had been suffering. Anglo growers maintained that the workers had never had it so good. Both sides were partially right, but when the strikers began firing 4,000 marbles from slingshots and growers started dusting the picket lines with insecticides, right had clearly given way to wrath...
With the aid of unemployed civil rights marchers and militant priests, Chavez, Alinsky & Co. ultimately won their strike. The revolutionary fever was slow to cool. As one union organizer put it afterward: "Success in our business means getting workers to middle-class status. The guy who carried a banner in 1966-well, in five years you're going to have a hard time getting him to a union meeting." It is that mood of inevitability that makes the anachronism of the Delano strike such compelling reading-and the strikers' success such a meaningful victory...