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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...
...talks with Chavez were held in the back room of a small house near union headquarters in Delano. All interviews were strictly limited to 45 minutes (Chavez spends the rest of every hour exercising his disabled back), and the union leader insisted on talking only about la causa, never about himself. Those around Chavez were equally reluctant to discuss him as a man. Says Anson: "For most of them, Chavez is a symbol rather than a person...
Undeterred by these obstacles, Chavez took his $1,200 in savings and started the National Farm Workers' Association seven years ago, setting up its headquarters in the San Joaquin Valley agricultural town of Delano. He clicked off 300,000 miles in a battered 1953 Mercury station wagon, crisscrossing the San Joaquin and talking to more than 50,000 workers in the first six months. His money was soon gone, but he found people who were willing to give him food. The N.F.W.A. had its first formal meeting in Fresno in September 1962; 287 people showed up. Chavez soon started...
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...
...Delano's west side resounded with cries of "Viva la huelga!" "Viva la causa! Viva la union!" The N.F.W.A. and the A.W.O.C. merged two years later to form the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, headed by Chavez...