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...investigation began last week after two chicano and Puerto Rican organizations at Princeton filed a complaint with the New York office of HEW charging that Princeton is not committed to minority recruitment...
Much of Chavez's trouble stems from an aggressive and sometimes violent drive by the Teamsters to oust the U.F.W.A. from the vineyards. But in addition, a growing number of Chicano farm workers who still revere Chavez have become disillusioned with the U.F.W.A. as a union. A major cause: poor administration by incompetent union officials of the hiring halls that the U.F.W.A. set up to break the power of unscrupulous labor contractors...
...self-confidence to have the experience, and you can watch them grow." Some of his favorite writers have not yet been published professionally. Gary Taylor, who just finished eighteen months for drug addiction, used his time working on a novel. Dellinger says of Margaret Martinez, a prolific young Chicano who is in for three years for smuggling dope: "She has the potential to do for the barrio what James Baldwin did for ghetto life." Liddy has not been published either, and does not want to be-at least for the present. But like all his classmates, he seems...
...aged Chicano says, necessity can teach more than a year at a university--The "Old Ones" give us insight into our lives, as well as their own. A great sense of joy pervades this book. Even though there are two languages here, there is only one soul. The old clap for the young, and the young clap back...
Here in Cambridge and Boston, conscientious consumers should remember to patronize the stores (The Coop, J. August, Almy's) that voluntarily joined the boycott. They should try to avoid those large downtown and suburban department stores (Filene's, Jordan Marsh, Milton's) that callously refused to support the Chicano laborers and had Amalgamated picketers arrested and harrassed when they publicized the struggle to weekend shoppers...