Word: chicanoes
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...Farah Pant Company, a national clothing concern, is engaged in a protracted labor dispute with pro-union chicano workers at their El Paso, Texas plant. Yesterday's protest was part of a nationwide demonstration called by leaders of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA...
...victory that surprised almost no one, State Senator Barbara Jordan, 36, defeated a white engineering designer and a Chicano socialist in the race to represent Houston's largely black 18th District. She will thus become the first black woman ever sent to Congress from the old Confederacy. An intelligent and politically shrewd lawyer, Jordan won respect in the state senate for helping to enact Texas' first minimum-wage bill and create a department for community affairs, designed primarily to deal with the problems of urban minorities. Her admirers, who include Lyndon Johnson, expect her to rival Shirley Chisholm...
...Briscoe, 49, found himself in a down-to-the-wire battle with the Republican candidate, Houston History Teacher Henry C. Grover, 45. Grover came out of nowhere for several reasons -the Nixon landslide, Briscoe's own indifferent campaign, the presence of a Mexican-American candidate who drew many Chicano votes that normally would have gone to the Democrats. Backed by a cabal of ultra-right Houston businessmen, Grover did not mount an attractive campaign: he railed against revenue sharing and state taxes on personal and corporate income, and told a Houston TV interviewer that "I just...
...from other parts of the country, and it is there that McGovern must establish himself strongly. However, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio all have large suburban populations, and it is the suburbanites of the south who have so admired Nixon for his stand on busing. Whether the black and chicano minorities from the cross-town sections of Texas cities can offset their power remains to be seen...
Nixon narrowly lost the state in '68, due in large part to a healthy minority vote. McGovern will undoubtedly win by sizeable majorities in the black and chicano communities, but he needs every last vote he can get from these areas. To many of the Texas rural voters, he just seems too radical on welfare and the war to make up for his appealing farm record. Unless there is a last minute return to party loyalty among the farmers, coupled with a large turnout by blacks and chicanos on election day, McGovern will by lucky to carry more than...