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Chavez's most vicious misrepresentation, however, has been his claim of worker support. In 1965, Chavez called his first strike in Delano, California. Delano is the center of the nation's table grape industry, and in the surrounding fields close to 7000 workers make a living. They work 11 months a year growing, pruning and harvesting grapes...
Public sympathy against Chavez and the UFW in Delano is so strong that Mayor Frank Herrara and Assemblyman Bill Ketchum have been elected decisively in recent years while they have openly and bitterly opposed...
Press releases from UFW headquarters in Delano announced that the strike was the largest in agricultural history, with 5000 workers walking off the job. But later, under oath, the director of the California Department of Employment, Albert Tieburg, reported that only 55 workers had gone on strike...
...picket lines there is none of us workers, none of us people," Dolores Mendoza, Delano grape picker, told nationally syndicated columnist Ralph DeToledano. "They got the hippies from San Francisco, they got people from Mexico who never worked here before...
...member Agricultural Workers for Democratic Action in Delano has petitioned the Teamsters Union for a pledge that they would not return farmworkers to the jurisdiction...