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...that will include vehicles as disparate as Greyhound buses and 325 mule-drawn wagons. Though the majority of the marchers will be black, there will also be American Indians, Appalachian whites and Mexican-Americans led by California's César Chávez, who organized the successful Delano farmworkers' strikes, and New Mexico's Reies Tijerina, whose abortive attempt to "reclaim" land last year made him a latter-day conquistador in Spanish-American eyes...
Squeezing & Bleeding. But the condition of the huelguistas remains depressed and depressing. The union claims 17,000 members across the nation. In California, Chavez' forces last August struck the Guimarra Vineyards Corp., which farms 12,000 acres near Delano...
...campaign is undoubtedly squeezing the grower, but it is also bleeding the union, which needs some $50,000 a month to house and feed the strikers and cover other expenses. The A.F.L.C.I.O. is pouring $10,000 a month into Delano while Walter Reuther, a friend of Chavez, is contributing $7,500 from United Auto Workers union coffers. Of course, the workers need far more than that, not only in terms of money but moderation as well...
...Viva All of You!" After three years of bitterness between pickers and growers, the danger in Delano now is that the strikers will resort to violence. Yet Chavez, the militant labor leader, is a devout Roman Catholic who believes perfervidly in pacific means to his ends. Last month, "to recall farm workers to the nonviolent roots of their movement," Chavez began a 25-day fast, living only on water and Eucharistic wafers in a scruffy Delano gasoline station owned by the N.F.W.A...
More than 6,000 farm workers gathered in Delano's Community Park for a Mass and bread-breaking ceremony. Unable to walk without aid, Chavez took Communion beside Bobby Kennedy, who later climbed onto a flatbed truck to address the crowd in a Codtown Castilian so tortured that he asked Chavez: "Am I ruining the language?" Finally, Kennedy settled for giving a simple cheer: "Viva la Causa! Viva Cesar Chavez,! Viva...