Word: coachella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coachella Valley and the Delano market center, Susan J. Diamond set out to get the growers' side of the dispute. Most of the' time, she could only interview the growers at night, after their 15-or 16-hour day, and she went away suspecting that tempers were short largely be cause the owners worked such killing ,hours. Curiously, no one ever offered her a grape...
That same spring, in the Coachella Valley east of Los Angeles, the largely Filipino grape pickers of the A.F.L.-. C.I.O.'s fledgling Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee won a brief strike for pay equal to that given field hands imported from Mexico. When the workers moved north to Delano at the end of the summer, grape growers there refused to make a similar agreement, and A.W.O.C. once more went on strike. On Sept. 16, which just happened to be Mexican Independence Day, Chavez's group held a tumultuous meeting and voted unanimously to join the walkout. The hall of the Roman...
...must be pried loose from the cliff before they can be moved. A group of Italian institutions is reportedly interested in Ellesya, and the U.S. has cast envious eyes at Derr. The city of Indio, Calif., would like to transport the temple to the Egypt-like desert of the Coachella Valley...