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...midnight only to find a message from John Giumarra Jr. The largest producer of table grapes in the U.S., the Giumarra family's company was also one of the bitterest foes of Chavez's United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. After five years of Chavez's la huelga-the strike -against table-grape growers, and a few days of inconclusive confrontation the week before, Giumarra wanted to talk seriously. "No attorneys, just heart to heart," the message read...
Eroded Ground. It was in dusty, sweltering Delano that la huelga began. A small group of predominantly Mexican-American farm workers led by Chavez met in a Roman Catholic church hall and voted to strike the vineyards. La huelga divided California's farm communities, pitting townsman against townsman. It produced conflicts that did credit to neither side. While Chavez preached nonviolence with deeprooted conviction, some of his followers set fire to packing sheds, slashed the tires of growers' trucks and threatened foremen with physical punishment. Growers and their men bullied the strikers, roughing them up and sometimes arranging...
Since 1965, Cesar Chavez has been leading la huelga (the strike) to unionize California's farm workers and win contracts from the state's powerful agricultural producers. He has concentrated on growers of table grapes, a product that requires intensive labor and is difficult to mechanize. Last week Chavez's United Farm Workers Organizing Committee finally dented the opposition. Three Coachella Valley table-grape producers agreed to contracts with UFWOC raising wages 10? an hour, to $1.75, and adding 22?-an-hour worth of fringe benefits. Said Chavez: "This is a very important...
...strip the fields of workers and, they argue, even if he personally preaches nonviolence, his followers do not practice it. Packing sheds have been set afire, foremen threatened, tires slashed. Chavez also has outside help. Long-haired pickets came down from Berkeley in the early days of la huelga, and the union gets $14,500 a month in grants from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers. By insisting that all workers join his union, moreover, Chavez wants what amounts to a closed shop (which is illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act, but the act does...
...Huelga: the strike...