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...reference to the author's arrival in California was the result of the ambiguities of his own preface, in which he writes that he first came to Delano in 1969 without indicating where he came from...
Official Washington has often seemed to be an employment agency for the Ivy League. Even before Franklin Delano Roosevelt brought down all those bright young men from Harvard, Yale and Princeton, graduates of the Big Three and the other Ivy schools were almost beyond counting in Government. There are still hordes of them around, but after seven years of Republican rule in the White House, so many men and women from the University of Chicago have moved into Government's command structure that Washington has begun to talk about "a University of Chicago Mafia...
Even more interesting are the results from Delano, the center of UFW activities for most of the last decade. The table grape capital is where thousands of farmworkers supposedly went on strike in 1965. For ten years people were supposed to boycott grapes for these workers. But in Delano, the Teamsters have won 18 victories covering 4008 workers and the UFW has won seven covering 569 workers...
...said later to Jacques Levy, a former New York Times reporter, "We wanted to use the march for calling attention to the strike [against Schenley liquors] and we wanted to take our case to Governor Pat Brown. But also we wanted to take the strike to workers outside the Delano area, because they weren't too enthused...Equally important to me--and I don't know how many shared my thoughts on this--was this was an excellent way of training ourselves to endure the long, long struggle, which by this time had become evident. So this was a penance...
Even last week Chavez charged irregularities: "Right now 20% to 30% of the workers are not voting because of fear, intimidation and threats." Apparently some stiff-arming was going on. "My foreman said if we sign with Chavez, goodbye job," worried one worker in Delano. A new five-member State Agricultural Labor Relations Board -which Teamsters and growers argue is heavily biased in favor of Chavez -will have its hands full sorting out charges of election fraud as balloting continues over the next unquiet months...