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...Texas grand jury. Once one of California's best and most disillusioned detectives, Editor White wrote a modest best seller (Me, Detective) in 1936. In Focus, promoted through stock subscriptions, he began a pictorial crusade against national evils, for his first picked San Antonio's pecan-shelling industry...
When first copies of Focus arrived in San Antonio, pecan shellers were on strike, the city in an uproar (TIME, Feb. 28). In an hour 2,700 copies of the 10? Focus were snapped up. San Antonio's gasping public tried not to believe Leslie White's timely charge that "it is possible for a four-plus syphilitic to obtain a health card from the San Antonio health department for 50?," to go to work shelling pecans for the nation to eat. Shortly Editor White was indicted for criminal libel. Certain of his facts, he was delighted...
...pecan pickers took their troubles to Juan Lopez, a naturalized Mexican priest, with strong C. I. O. sympathies. With Father Lopez" approval the International Pecan Shellers Union (a San Antonio local of C. I. O. Cannery Workers) called a mass meeting to plan a strike. Into the meeting to steal the show completely marched Emma Tenayuca. La Pasionaria's Communism was too much for Father Lopez, and he retired from active direction. Not more than 1,000 of 11,000 workers, struck. Soon pickets were parading with signs reading, "El Padre Lopez es un mat Católico...
...Pasionaria then retired from active direction, leaving the field to President Donald Henderson of the C. I. O. Cannery Workers, who flew from Washington to take charge. For by this time it was apparent that the piddling pecan strike would probably turn out to be a C. I. O. showdown in Texas, where John L. Lewis has yet to make much headway...
...which John Nance Garner's five acres of Texas pecan trees produced 3,000 lb. that were sold at an average...