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...belligerent, Alinsky-forged army of Negro slum dwellers, employed rent strikes and picketing to win concessions ranging from tenement repairs to honest scales. In California, 30 Alinsky-founded community projects, mainly for Mexican-Americans, have increased their influence; last week an Alinsky disciple was leading a bitter strike of grape pickers in the San Joaquin Valley for better wages. In Rochester, N.Y., Alinsky's predominantly Negro organization FIGHT (an apt acronym for Freedom, Integration, God, Honor, Today) has severely harassed the already established poverty agency. In Syracuse, N.Y., Alinsky's apprentices trucked mobs to heckle a Republican mayor...
...absurdities that refuse to deal with the adult world. Such were the elephant jokes (What do you get when you cross an elephant with a jar of peanut butter? A peanut that never forgets or an elephant that sticks to the roof of your mouth) and the more recent grape jokes. (What's purple and hums? An electric grape. Why does it hum? It doesn't know the words). Another collegiate fad was the Tom Swifties, inspired by Author Edward Stratemeyer's series. "I've been looking forward to this ride," said Lady Godiva shiftlessly...
Living the Gospel. Whether the three-month-old strike, staged to get union recognition for grape pickers, is the Christian churches' business has become a dominant issue around Delano. Protagonist for involvement is the 20-year-old California Migrant Ministry, an interdenominational group supported by many local congregations and councils of churches, and until lately a welfare organization. United Presbyterian Minister Wayne C. Hartmire, 33, is the director of the ministry. He argues that "the job of the church is to make Christian love real and powerful in the lives of men. You cannot live the Gospel without getting...
...Hartmire sees it, the plight of the grape pickers cries out to heaven. They are mostly illiterate Mexicans and Filipinos. Among them, for example, is Marcos Munoz, who lives in a squalid shack that he calls "something you would not let a dog enter." Another, Manuel Rivera, 52, the father of seven, works ten hours a day when he is not on strike, for the minimum wage of $1.25 an hour. He is a grim man whose only hope is for his children; he feels that the vineyard owners "make an animal out of me. They might as well...
...Christ, was arrested for "disturbing the peace" by reading aloud to imported strikebreakers a vivid definition by Jack London: "A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a waterlogged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue." Strike leaders estimate that a third of the grape harvest will rot on the vines, and Harry Bridges' strike-sympathizing longshoremen have caused tons of grapes to rot on the docks by refusing to have anything to do with them. Inevitably, the strike has attracted some Berkeley students-coeds in college sweaters and wool stockings, boys in Zapata-style...