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Every day at dawn last week, Cesar Chavez was out in the green and gold California fields, pleading with Mexican, Filipino, Yemenite and native American workers. At 7:15 a.m. one day, the charismatic Chicano had to halt his early-bird campaigning and leave the Elmco Ranch near Delano, Calif. The time had arrived for the 725 workers on the huge, grape-laden spread to decide whether to join Chavez's beleaguered United Farm Workers of America or remain in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which has held the union contract since 1973. The election yielded a margin...
...hard to square this image with even a minimal knowledge of the realities of farmworker life. Our own very different experiences (one of us spent many years in a community regularly employing migrant labor and the other worked for two years as a legal services attorney among farmworkers in Delano, California) only confirm what has been said and observed by countless others who have researched the farmworker problem. The farm laborer's existence has been and continued to be characterized by poverty, insecurity, injury and illness, as well as systematic resistance to attempts to better conditions through unionization...
...major effect on the DiGiorgio ranches, which began suffering losses. Consequently, the company began cutting back on planting, investment and production. By 1968, employment on one of its largest ranches had fallen from 2500 to 400. By 1970, the company had shut down its Sierra Vista ranch in Delano, costing the town 1500 jobs. Later the company shut down other ranches in the San Joaquin Valley...
...experience was not unique. Giorgio Aglipay, whose statement heads this column, reported that all his co-workers had suffered a loss of income in the UFW. Retail stores in Delano in 1971 reported declines of 25 to 40 per cent in business...
...members of the Arizona Ecumenical Council, a group of Protestant churches, went to the fields in Delano and interviewed more than 200 farmworkers in the UFW, asking them what they thought about the union...