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...leader of the Delano County grape strike told students yesterday to invite Senators and Congressmen to Harvard and "put them on the spot," by asking them embarassing questions about the working conditions of grape pickers and farm workers...
...student volunteers have given a distinctive flavor to the movement to unionize the grape-pickers, he said, by imparting political consciousness to the workers. "We want there to be light in the union," said Chavez...
Students at the University of California at Berkeley were the first to join the grape-picker's struggle. Early in the strike, they contributed their lunch money to buy food for the strikers, who live on five dollars a week...
DELANO: THE STORY OF THE CALIFORNIA GRAPE STRIKE by John Gregory Dunne. 176 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Scene of the struggle was Delano (pronounced Delrryno), a grape-growing city of some 13,000 inhabitants, split by Highway 99 into a west side filled with lo-ball parlors, taco joints and strikers and an east side dominated by "Anglo" growers and indignation. As Author Dunne points out in this admirably dispassionate account of the yearlong strike, both camps were on the wrong side of history...