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...DOLORES MENDOZA, SHIRLEY FETALVERO: These "ladies" are traditional strike breakers, or as the workers call them: "SCABS." Dolores is particularly loud-mouthed and abrasive. A small portly woman, she helped organize the "Mothers Against Chavez," composed chiefly of growers' wives and a few of Dolores's friends like Shirely...
Another grape picker, Shirley Fetalvero, testified before a California Senate fact-finding committee. "The union's massive propaganda machine has led the public to believe that there are thousands of desperate, ragged, starving farmworkers on strike here. This is not true. The picket lines are being manned by outside organizations such as the SDS. We resent the invention of an ignorant, downtrodden class of farmworkers where none exists...
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