Word: digiorgio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Feeling that under such circumstances a fair election would be impossible, the NFWA boycotted the election. Only about 250 of the 800 workers DiGiorgio had deemed eligible bothered to vote. Of these, the Teamsters polled about 200 votes, the rest going for no union...
...campaign lasted the rest of the summer. Each side put out reams of mimeographed pass-out sheets attacking the other, while DiGiorgio was resolutely ignored. One of the best NFWA organizers, a young Mexican-American, was offered $20,000 a year to organize for the Teamsters. He refused and was subsequently beaten, allegedly by Teamster supporters...
...Delano Record gave the Teamsters a big play, while continuing to ignore "that Chavez union." Often, NFWA news which hit the front page of the L.A Times did not even make the Record. DiGiorgio still claimed that most of the workers really wanted no union at all, but encouraged those who did to vote for the Teamsters. When it became clear that very few would vote for no union representation, DiGiorgio stood by the Teamsters, the last bulwark against the NFWA...
...support among the shed workers, most of whom were "Anglos," white Americans non-plussed by the NFWA's spirit of Mexican-American nationalism. Among the field-workers the NFWA counted on the support of most of the Mexican-Americans, but the large number of Japanese and Filipinos working for DiGiorgio were almost solidly for the Teamsters...
...American Arbirtation Association had decided that anyone who had worked for DiGiorgio for 15 days or more since the strike began would be eligible to vote. Naturally, many of the migrants were scattered all over the state. The NFWA made a concerted effort to find them and bring them back. They sent several cars around the state and picked up supporters who were eligible to vote. A busload of eligible voters was picked up in El Paso, and one man came from a town south of Mexico City just to cast his ballot...