The Movement [January 1967]

. ~~' .' ; 20tt S,n1 ~; ......... ' _. ~ ..... )h. ORGANIZING GROUP FIGHTS FOR LIFE perfect right to carryon their work -- SISK, McFALL . to participate in labor-management dis putes and the other things they are doing - but they have no right to expect to use BACK GROWERS, federal funds. That is the only issue that is involved -.; their attempt to use federal CUT FUNDS FOR PIOR funds." By Brooks Penny GROWERS SUBSIDIZED Del Rey, Calif. To this E-d Dutton, the executive di rector, of CCCD replied, ''If he (Rep. The California Center for Community Sisk) is not going to allow the Center to Development is once again under poli be' involved with grape workers in the tical attack. The problems .that Benny use of federal funds, then he must stop Parrishis haVing with the local power any federal subsidy to the growers who structure, in Modesto were reported in are being struck against. Growers are the November MOVEMENT. receiving, among other things, federal The CCCD is a Del Rey based organ ly subsidized water, price supports and ization dedicated to organizational and agricultural extension service." training programs among low income peoples to aid them in changing politi McFALL AND SISK HYPOCRITES cal institutions. In the process 0 f A joint statement issued by, among politically training the low income people others, Cris Hartmire, director of the the CCCD sees that social action is an Migrant Ministry, and the directors of integral part of the process. the CCCD stated, "Sisk is attacking the The current problems that the CCCD Center because some of the trainees is having, however, stem from an un walked on a picket line in support of farm Ul ..~ intentional application of this philosophy. workers in Fresno. Sisk says it is not ~ c On December 13 about sixteen young right to use federal money "to train III people from the CCCD project in Watts pickets. Sisk recently appeared on a ~ (;'" were in Fresno. They visited a picket picket line of the raisin farmers who ~ line that was being manned by the United were protesting and organizing against l'J o Farm Workers Organizing Committee in low raisin prices. Sisk, on the federal -0 .c front of Gottschalks Department store. payroll. brought in another federal em 0.. The purpose of the line was in support ployee to help the growers." Bob Solodow.and Luis Juarez, CCCD staff member during training session. of the Perelli Minetti boycott. The CCCD "The picketing by the trainees," Dut trainees from Watts were invited to jojn ton said further, ~'was not in breach of the Modesto power structure's con January 15 but at the time of this writ the picket line and they did. contract with the U.S. Department of trolled Community Action Commission. ing it' looks like the chances are slim Health, Education and Welfare." \ In January of 1966, Sisk successfully that they will show up. DEMO'S ATTACK This isn't the first time that the CCCD held up the $250,000 grant for the CCCD Then the roof fell on CCCD in the has run up against McFall and Sisko In for three months because the Center The Farm Workers' COeOp in De forms of Congressman B. F. Sisk of was actually sympathetic to the cause of December McFall flatly said that he lano' badly needs a competent Fresno and John McFall of Manteca. the grape strikers. The- New York Times had asked Sargent Shriver to silence auto mechanic. Anyone inter They announced that they were going to of March 7, 1966, directly attributed Benny Parrish before the November ested please contact Agricul stop the funds that are going to Benny elections, "I just wanted hini' quiet a Sisk's action to grower pressure. tureI Labor Support Comm ittee Parrish in Modesto and the Watts Pro few weeks before the election," the Fresno Sisk and McFall were invited to a 626-4577 or 626-:-5396. s.F. ject. The Watts project is funded by the Bee reported McFall saying. "His activ CCCD Board of Directors meeting on Department of Health, Education and Wel ities lost me votes and helped to cost us fare and the Modesto project from the Qovernor Brown." Parrish heads the OEO. ' Community Poverty Council which many Sisk said, "They (the CCCD) have a .time finds itself in direct conflict with --MORE ON COGM-- with the competence of those involved.) By Joan Bowman CDGM and its friends stuck to their Current negotiations in Washington are guns. The following day, Shriver an deciding the future of the Child Develop nounced that Mudd would not be fired ment Group of Mil~fsissippi, an issue which after all, and that instead a "manage most observers had thought was settled ment consultant" would join his staff. la;gt October with Shriver's annolJncement Further, Rev. McCree would not be re that the controversial HEAD START pro inoved but must face re-election from his gram would not, be refunded. Party to community. The grant had been raised to these negotiations are CDGM. the Office $8 million for 12 months, a budget which of Economic Opportunity, the organized will accommodate 5900 to 6100 children. churches, and various liberal and labor The Board has been expanded to 19 groups who support the program. Accord members, and Mary Holmes Junior Col-: ing to the WASHINGTON POST, Vice lege, which administers the grant, is to President Humphrey is "mediating" the have a larger policy role. conflict among the various groups, pre Even though some victory has beenwon, sumably representing the White House. the contract with OEO has not yet been On December 16, Shriver·reversed his signed. Each day new rumors emerge decision. OEO offered $5 million to CDGM, from Washington about CDGM. The staff to carryon a program in 17 Mississippi in Jackson is confident, and the morale ~ counties, including 5200 children. But in the COmmunities appears to be excel o III there were strings attached, and CDGM lent. "Mississippi Action for Progress," ~ said no. Executive Director John Mudd, the rival program which was initiated by (;'" ~ was to be fired, and the Rev. James Mc-. the White House and Mississippi liberals l'J Cree to be removed from the Board of got nowhere: they picked up a slick .3 o Directors. (OEO's practice of firing those #3 million to run a statewide program, .c 0.. nominally responsible for malfunctioning but due to a boycott by local CDGM com mittees, MAP has signed up' only 30 CCCD Organizer discusses Welfare Rights with family. of a project is a stock response; it has more to do with placating enemies than childrenI Page 2 THE MOVEMENT JANUARY 1967 ....................... EDIT0 R I A L S .... i .........II.II.II... ....11 ..11.11 LETTERS 0 11 . TEAMSTER QUITS , LOSING JUST WHICH 'SIDE ARE THEY ON? To the Movement: THE SAME I found Dave Wellman's review of LOS Enclosed is one half of a card enti ING JUST THE SAME heavy-handed and Recently the Sunday assumes that the left press, unlike tling me to membership inthe Teamster's lacking any relief from the tiresome view Ramparts demonstrated the establishment press, can be trus 'Union, Local 265. The other half, with of some self-conscious radicals who as its flair for sensationalist ted with inside information, and so it a copy of this letter to you, has been sume they have a monopoly on ghetto journalism by printing an is given inside information in order sent to the offices of Local 265 in San life. "exclusive" on the latest that its evaluation, analysis and criti- Francisco. I will not remain affiliated Unfortunately for us all, there is no one SNCC,staff meeting. cism of the left can be accurate and with a union which opposes the grape who understands how the ghetto is or With gleefulness worthy useful. strikers; the Teamsters all through the ganized. From the 'highest bureaucrat in the war on poverty to the most dedica of the Oakland Tribune We feel that Sunday Ramparts has strIke have cooperated with the growers against the strikers, and the Teamster ted SDS organizer, there is no one who it detailed the various done a grave disservice to the en plan to try to break the boycott against knows what the glue is that holds these conflicts which face tire left and to the left press in Perelli-Minetti is only the most recent neighborhoods together. There are some SNCC, and with an ill particular by its provocative of such attempts. It is no wonder the insights - and I must say that I have concealed chuckle and simplistic headlining of' Teamsters choose to represent the San found more useful comments about ghetto spoke of whites being SNCC's difficulties. We can Frahcisco police against city. minorities, life from a Salvation Army social worker kicked off SNCC staff only assume that it is m 0 r e as other recent events indicate. than from radical activists - but there and other problems with interested in selling papers It cost me eighty dollars to get that has yet to be any coherent framework of in SNCC which revolve than in being useful or card from the Teamsters. Since I cannot understanding for ghetto people and the around race. even responsible to the now give that money to the strikers and quality of their life. .left. Movement groups their chosen union, I am sure the Team The shabby effect of Mr. Wellman's For a journal with should think twice be sters will know what they'can do with it•. review is that he is not willing to consider radical and left pre fore inc 1u din g Ram any new insights.

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