IN ENGLISH ,15¢ No. 51 "The Voice of the Farm Worker"
CARMEN RAMOS
.CHANDLER page 11 THE ONLY PICTO.R.IAL RECORD OF THE PILGRIMAGE FROM DELANO TO SACRAMENTO ------_..------_ ..------... --_.I Please send me copies of BASTA! (Deluxe Edition: $2. 50) moving PHOTOGRAPHS Name by george ballis ------Address text: THE PLAN OF DELANO ------manifesto of the delano City, Zip Code grape strike ------Total amount enclosed $ _ ~ ...... ---.1 (Send to: Farm WorkersPress, Box 1060, Delano, 93215) F.II. "fAt:MalcriadoYo. 401 C••p ••I..... ~ EettttPUat CONTENT:S THE GOV'ERNOR
LETTERS TO THE .AND EDITOR ".:.:;. ~ (p.4-5) THE FARM WORKERS;'" ******************** Ronald Reagan, the man who never showed himself to be FARM WORKERS' a friend of the farm worker, is the new governor of STRUGGLE ~California. Next month, he takes power, and among his (p.6-10) adversaries--including this newspaper--there is the question, 'What happens now?" ******************** The answer is simple. Nothing will happen. In effect, CHILDREN OF THE under the democratic system by which this country is FARM WORKERS usually governed, the new governor should not be a "Dar (p. 11) tisan" with his own axe to grind. He must govern accord ing to his own best judgment; he must govern his oppon ******************** ents and his supporters alike. NEWNEWNEWNEW If he does not govem this way, he is not very smart. WOMENwS PAGE If he ignores strong and important groups of citizens who (p. 13) disagree with the pr-ogram he has set forth during his campaign, he is a fool. According to the official election ******************** returns, his victory was by only 20% of the total votes. YOU CAN OWN E T That leaves 40% of the voters. to whom Reagan must listen MALCRIADO! !! and pay attention, because they have not voted for him. (p. 14-15) Maybe this is why they did not vote for him. The road to the top ( and Reagan is not yet at the top) is long and ******************** rough. WINTER IN DELANO And more than two million votes can make the difference (p.20-23) when the hour of decision comes for Reagan. It is nat ural that he is already thinking about the nomination of ******************** his party for the presidency'of the U. S. And this is his THE ORGANIZER'S weakness. DIRECTORY Besides these facts, which the new governor has surely (p. 25) thought about, there is one more fact: that the farm workers know that their struggle does not allow any re ******************** treat or escape, and that if Ronald Reagan does not show CAMPESINOS IN enough ability and political intelligence, one way or an ALABAMA other the farm workers have nothing to lose, because they (p. 28) are betting not only on their own future, but on the future of their children and their childrens' children. ?h~7Bl;kjjCUl;//)b~/I)2l3t~h~~b~?ltljb~?ltlit/:ll)!&~~lJ
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.AlONE ~N fEXAS Editor: THE MOST EXPLOITED W'ORKERS, I am writing to ask you to send to me the magazine - "E1 Malcri ado" in Spanish. I am .very interested in read Cause ing·it. I like it very A to fight for... .much and hope 1;hat the day will come when we can read in this news Gentlemen: paper that the injustices have been overcome and Last evening I saw your theatre group's that farm workers are being paid a just wage. presentation. And still my heart weeps I am a mother who for you. May you find success in your lives in Texas. My trials and may you be a blessing upon the sons go to California poorer people of our nation. Sometimes very often becaus~ here we who are caught in· the middle class, in Texas they pay only collegiate atmosphere question our own wages of misery. So significance in a seemingly meaningless my sons make long and society. It is not until we are approached dangerous trips in with life, such as in the manner you de scribed, that life becomes pointful and search of work. relevant, and we find a purpose. When my sons leave me I feel alone and sad. Because of this I wish Enclosed IS a small check.. I do so to receive the newspa wish it could be more. But college de per in order to find out mmds certain financial benefits from us, what is happening in and this is all I can spare. However, if California where my you could send me a record album, such sons are. as was at your theatre group's presenta tion, I should be most pleased. Sincerely, , Once again, let me thank you for help Maria Luisa Hinojosa ing the farm workers. This summer past Roma, Texas I had the opportunity to work in migrant camps. It is an experience I shall never forget'. Not even if I try. And I do try. We Americans do like to hold the belief EVERYONE'S that sadness islimited to those peoples of other nations. But sadness knows no con fiGHT fines and so life goes on: some suffering, Friends, some helping. Belated thanks for your letter of November 7th and for the fine new book. I -Very Sincerely, still hope that someone will have the time to send Mary Jean Hitchman me the words of the song Portland, Oregon YOUNG FARM WORKERS on the record I was curi 0us about. I hope that next year I can do another benefit con I cert for you all. I know EL MALCRIADO:::Page 5
·how hard you are work~ ..------.. "help write the paper" ,ingandyouarefighting LISTEN YOUNG FARM WORKERS box. Ididthisbecause not just for yourselves ~ - I'm a newspaperman by but indirectly for all of DO YOU WANT THIS trade--in the writing end us. not the selling end. All the best, TO HIAPPEN TO YO[U? I can't think of a way to I write the paper while I'm F here and it's up there. 1/ But I would like to help anyway. If you'd like, I could drive up to Delano on most weekends and help out with the paper that way.· There would be a few weekends I'd have to miss during those times when we're on deadline down here. But my deadlines come only READERS once a month.
AND FARM Best wishes.
WORKERS To the Editor: Robert Dudnick Los Angeles, Cal. I asked f.or literature from the Farm Workers Dear Sirs: Association because I wanted to interest my sons in joining the union. Unfortunately, they have not Letter From Will you please re shown any interest, even though they make their new my subscription to liVing fr.om farm labor. Jack London's "EI Malcriado." I have This saddens me because my experiences have enclosed $2.00. taught me that all farm workers must be united in Your newspaper is Daughter order to gain a decent and dignified life from their great! We laugh and work. Editor: cry with the farm work Until this happens the landowners and bosses ers as we read it. will never realize that the poor people who work Enclosed is my check I'm looking forward for them should not be treated as beasts of burden. for $2.00. Please re to joining the second (as they are now), but as human beings who have new my subscription to food caravan, along dignity and are worthy of respect. EI Malcriado, in English. ·with our minister and Because of all this, the fight of Mr. Cesar Cha It has always been excel others from our church. vez is worthy of praise and commendation from lent, and somehow it the whole world, especially from this country keeps getting better and Viva la Causa! where he has been the only one to effectively show better. us where our society is sick. With all good wishes, Mrs. Fred Keast I am an old man, retired from work. I am 67 Sacramento, Cal. Joan London years old and have been a farm worker for more Pleasant Hill, Cal. than eight years, but now I am too old to work any HELP FOR El more. When I was in Fresno County I applied for a Christmas MALCRIADO pension and they gave one to me, not because they wanted to help me, but only because they had to. With this miserable help one lives always on ra Greetings Dear Sir: tions of hunger. There have been months when they have only given me a check for TWO DOL Dear Sir: I sure would like to be LARS AND FIFTY CENTS. come an owner of EI Do they think that with only this money I can pay Yes, indeed, I've been Malcriado and the Farm 40 dollars for rent ana gas and light bills? This very much interested and Worker Press. 'l'he so-called pension is a farce and serves only to concerned with your form and the check are .ridicule me in my misery. wonderful, brave fight enclosed. I am now living in this county and] do not know under Cesar Chavez, for On the form, you'll see (Continued on page 30) (Continued on page 30) that I've checked the EL MALCRIAOO:::Page 6 THE FARM WORKER STRUGGLE"
- - -~ - TH( D(ATH BlOW TO P(R(lll-MINlTTI? Thrifty Drugs, one of the largest drug store. chains in tne world z has agreed not to buy any more Pere I liM i nett I products unt i I the str i ke i·s over. This announcement was made just as boycott leader Rev. Eugene Boutilier flew to the east coast to make final arrange ments to stop Perelli-Minetti products there.
The announcement about Thrifty carne following talks with the drug owners, who agreed never to buy any more of the scab prbducts (ARISTOCRAT, ELEVEN CELLARS, TRI BUNO) until the company settles with the farm workers 00 ion of Ces.ar Chavez.
Thrifty sells millions of dollars worth of liquor every month in California alone. Union leaders speculated that Perelli Minetti must soon give in to the union or destroy himself. Credit Union Membership Campaign
Mr. julio Hernandez, presi teer. He and his wife Liz dent of the Farm Workers have just corne to Delano from Credit Union, announced that San Jose to live and work. the Credit Union has now a Bob is an important part of total of $30, 000. 00 in farm the Credit Union's plans for worker savings from 542 expansion. Eventually. all members. Members send in farm workers everywhere their savings from allover will have its savings and loan California where they are facilities available to them. safely kept until needed. The membership fee is very The secretaIY of the Credit small and is paid only once. Union, Mrs. Helen Chavez,is People who are interested the person with whom most may corne to the new offices of the members have deal at 105 Asti Street (behind the ings. The newest staff mem t:mion headquarters on Albany) ber is Bob Barron, who is JULIO HERNANDE Z and get full information on presently working as a volun the benefits. EL MALCRIADO:::Page 7
$4000 A DAY FORI SCHENLEY WORKERS Pruning started last week at Schenley Ranch, the only operat ing ranch in California with a union contract. Right now nine ty workers ar e earning between $16 and $22 a day at the wage rate of $1. 65 an hour and $1. 50 a row.
Work is proceeding quickly at both the Poplar and Delano ranches, because the union is using only highly experienced help, union members only. At the peak of the pruning in about a month, there will be pruning for 200 workers. This means that about $4000 a day will be earned by the farm workers under the union contract.
Only persons who worka:l during the gondola harvest at Schen ley should apply for this work, by contacting Manuel Sanchez or Helen Serda, who run the hiring hall at 102 Albany, Delano, phone 725-8661. .
-----NYE: ABOUT THE FIRE: "IT WAS VERY OPPORTUNE FOR THE UNION" ORENDAIN: "WE MUST BE ------READY TO SUFFER IN ORDER TO BRING JUSTICE TO THIS VALLEY". -----,---- _._-----_.....---~ The Good and The Bad ORENDAIN NYE ORENDAI·N JAILED F'OR "LOCKING A GATE"
Tony Orendain who was officials, like Orendain, were The mass arrests reminded jailed in Texas for "closing outsiders, liars, and ex observers of the Kflrn County and locking the gate of the In criminals. harrassment in the early days ternational Bridge, " is being Tony, who went to help the of the strike in Delano. The slanqered by the agents of the Texas farm workers several brutal and illegal arrests growers -- specifically by months ago, is National Sec were the same, the wages Randal Nye, a "Texas lawyer" retary-Treasurer of the Uni were even lower, and chances Nye implied that the union ted Farm Workers of Cesar of success seemed as small. (AFL-CIO) had started a fire Chavez in Delano. The stri Opposition to the strikers in on another bridge. (No char kers in Texas have faced po Texas is even more ignorant ges against the Union were lice-state tactics by the Texas and brutal than in California. filed) He said that the union Rangers. fORBIDDEN R. 'I Stopping the Trucks of Perelli Minetti
The battle was on last week set up with a base station others plust stay 100 yards as Perelli-Minetti tried to high in the Hollywood Hills. away from the property. ship its grapes both north and When the truck stopped at the Still the offensive products south by truck. Their _ market, there were the pick are being turned back, and attempts ended in failure first ets. The driver would not it is exp:!cted that the order in Los Angeles, and later in cross the line. He tried an- will be thrown out of court. tfie north. other market. Again he was turned back. But Minetti, unable to get In Los Angeles, a task force his liquor to Los Angeles in of about twenty-five boycott Desparate, he drove back to time for the holidays, then workers, reinforced with his home in Newhall, about turned to the north. He sent some of the Delano organizers ,40 miles from ;Los Angeles. another huge truckload spee established a dragnet and The truck sat the entire week ding through Delano on Wed Perelli-Minetti's trucks end and i t was watched every nesday, December 14. Be found it impossible to get second. After another hind it was Robert Bustos, through. Here is how it attempt on Monday morniD:g determined to track it all the worked.: it returned to McFarland, way to hell if necessary. At . the liquor unsold and Perelli press time he telepnoned A truck pulled out of McFar Minetti one step closer to from Lodi. The tru'e::k was land, loaded with scab pro defeat. still speeding northward. ducts from the winery, on But the producers fought back Friday, December 9. Behind They were able to dig up a Minetti did not give up easily. it, every inch of the long judge to issue a temporary He took the returned Los road to Los Angeles, were the 'order limiting picketing at Angeles vermouth and loaded' huelguistas. Youngs Markets which was it into a boxcar in an attempt one of the places from which to send it back by rail. At l'4eanwhile, in all possible the 1100 cases of vermouth last report the train was in markets that the truck could were turned back Friday in Bakersfield. The strikers go to, picket activity began. Los Angeles. Only nine pic promised that it would never A two-way radio system was kets are permitted and all reach Los Angeles.
CESAR CHAVEZ IN MEXICO
After accompanying Walter Reuther, the leader of the United Auto Workers, to Mexico City, Cesar Chavez returned to Delano, bringing good news for the strikers. In Mexico City Cesar had friendly meetings with the Secretary of Agricultural Matters and Colonization, Aguirre Palancares and with Fidel Velazquez, the leader of the powerful CTM (a federation of unions in Mexico. , , I One of the results of these meetings was that Cesar was able to arrange the formation of an Inter national Committee of Labor Relations. This committee will be composed' of representatives of the CTM, the AFL-CIO, and the Farm Workers Union and will be in charge of maintaining good re lations between Mexican and American unions.. One of the items on the agenda of its first meeting will be the problem of the 'hationals" who cross the border legally and come to Texas and to California to serve as scabs, brought by the ranchers and the contractors. .EL.MALCRIADO:::Page 9 Officials Fail to Stop Strikers Christmas Party An appeal all the way to the governor was necessary to obtain the Delano Armory for ------STRIKERS' ------CHRISTMAS -----PARTY the strikers' Christmas par ty on December 17. The A FEATURING THE HUELGUISTAS rmory, the only building in CHILDRENS' CHOIR, Delano big enough for the e V8ilt, was refused to the SANTA,CLAUS, strikers even though it is suppossed to be reserved for AND LALO GUERRERO. gatherings of this type. at the National Guard Armory After making proper applica tion three. times and 1;>eing in Delano, Cal ifornia, on refused three times without cause, the strikers had their Saturday, December 17th friends in the cities write to . startit")g at I :30 p.m. sfate senators and assembly men. Sacramento was deluged with Farm workers and other su letters and telegrams and pporters are being invited to phone calls. The gove~or come to Delano, early on had no choice but to force the December 17. The program National Guard authorities to for the day will start at Fili issue a permit .to hold the pino Hall with a meeting with party. The Armory, next to Cesar Chavez, union direct the Delano airport, was the or, and Chris Hartmire of scene of the huge rally before the Migrant Ministry, at the Sierra Vista elections 10 a. m. This will be followed . last August. by lunch at 11 a. m. The party at the Armory will The local official, Sgt. Pitts, start at 1:30 p. m. had given an immediate re fusal for the building. His Farm workers, stUdents, boss, Lt. Rodney Harman, union members, church had also refused, saying that people, and just plain ind "the place had been left a ividuals from allover the mess last time". The team state. Everyone is invited. of twenty-five strikers who had cleaned up the hall in Without the gifts of Christmas August said that this was a trees, toys, turkeys, warm direct lie. winter clothing,' and food which these people are bring The party, whose main at ing, it would be a bleak traction will be the new Christmas indeed, because CHILDRENS CHOm OF THE the strike store is empty and HUE LGA, will also feature it is cold in Delano. LALO GUERRERO, whose famous Corrido de Delano But against the spirit of the has sold thousands of records Huelga and the spirit of all over the San Joaquin Christmas, not eve n a Mar Valley. Also at the party tin Zaninovich, a Perelli will be the same SANTA Minetti, a Delano Record, CLAUS who came to Delano or a National Guard can last year. prevail. EL MALCRIADO:::Page 10
Th.e tour of the Teatro Ca.m pesino to the Northwest ended la.st wrek when they returned to Delano, triumphant after making nine major perform ances in the states of Oregon and Washington.
Their first performances were in the Yakima Valley 'where they gave their "actos" for 3000 workers in one big rally. This successful event was', sponsored by Tom Villa nueva and Lupe and Luis Gam Gamboa, who are beginning to organize the 20,000 Yakima Valley workers for the Farm Workers Union.
The Teatro then performed in the great cities of Seattle and Portland for groups of worke ers and at five different The Teatro, whose fame is ' ector Luis Valdez. colleges and universities. A now nationwide, consists of The Teatro raised $2100 special performance was director Valdez and less than from supporters during the held in Portland at the Port a dozen 'farm workers from trip. They had a total of ten. land Labor Center sponsored Delano. Those who appeared flat tires and were nearly by VIVA, which is the Oregon in the Northwest perform snowed in during the 3000 Farm Workers group. A ances were Filipe Cantu, , mile tour, but they are now Delano Huelga flag was pre Robert Fisher, Eduardo Fra safely back in Delano plan sented to VIVA leaders nco, Bob Fisher, Agustin ning a big year for 1967. Emilio Hernandez and Jose Lira, Roberto Reyes, Roberto Their new record will be , Morales by the Teatro dir Roman, Robert Fisher, and released next month--on the ector Luis Valdez. Roy Valdez, a.s well as dir- Thunderbird label.
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We are also presenting new features: advice on IN DELANO IN SELMA legal problems, personal problems, and i=i Juan Bejarano Jose Aguirre gration; a women's page; contests and cartoons. 130 Albany 2557 1/2 Pine St, And, most important of all, we need to expand our paper to carryon the fight for truth and IN MERCED IN MADERA justice, in defens~ of the farm workers, and Domingo Martinez Raul Martinez to expose the growers whenever they mistreat 1326 Yale 1029 Grant Ave. EL MALCRIADO:::Page 11 Farm WorkerChiidren
Carmen Ramos Chandler, in the terror of her lone liness before the pitiless Texas jail where her mother was locked up/(see cover) is the latest of a long 1in~ of children who have suffered because their parents are suffering. Irene, Carmen's mother, is one of the Texas or ganizers dragged off the International Bridge between Roma and Miguel Aleman, Mexico last month. When mass arrests of strikers are made, what happens to the chi,ldren? What happened to the children in Hit..,; ler's Germany? What happens to the children of American soldiers and Vietnamese peasants? The hatreds and the injustices are heaped upon them doubly. And the demands of a bitter struggle ) makes them grow up very fast. What happens to the children in Delano? Just as they were once in the fields with their pa-
to help. The time is not over, even around Delano, when a whole family of eight can work in the cold early spring, all day for a ten dollar bill. But it will be over as the Huelga spreads until there is not an acre, a row or a bush that is bought with the sweat of the children for whom this strike is made.
rents, they are on the picket line. When once they carried grape boxes, now they carry picket signs. But the difference with the children is that they have put down the grape knife for the last time. They will never return to the fields. When the strike is over, as it is over at the ranches of Schenley Corporation, the parents will make enough money so that the children do not need EL MALCRIADO:::Page 12
ON THE PICKET LINE, DECEMBER.... clockwise from upper right: Delano, San Francisco, Fresno, San Francisco; center: picket captains Pete Cardenas and Margarito Munoz It is cold. It rains. RECIPES The wet wind congeals the spirit. The grey sky afflicts me. It afflicts the soul, it afflicts CHRISTMAS TURKEY with WINE STUFFING sleep, life itself, the heart-How I know! 1 cup raisins 1/4 teaspoon dried chervil the lungs, the air. Rose wine 1/4 teaspoon dried mar The air hangs heavy, 1/2 cup butter. joram the humidity on the windows 2 chopped onions 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme stifles me. 2 stalks celery (with their 1 cup slivered, toasted And even the fire leaves), chopped almonds (or pecans) crackling 1/2 pound pork sausage, Salt and pepper to taste into the chimney cut into small pieces 1 medium-sized turkey, afflicts me; 8 cups soft bread crumbs 12 to 14 pounds the air hurts. 1/2 cup minced, fresh And I think about the brothers parsley in Delano; about the strong, the valiant, Place the raisins in a bowl, cover them with rose (or any the tenacious. other good, rather sweet red wine), and let them soak un I think about their women, til they have become plump. about their children, about their tin-roofed shacks In a heavy skillet melt the butter; when it has become hot beneath this rain; add the onions and the celery. Cook the vegetables until in the cold without heat, they have become tender, but do not brown them. Remove their children without milk, the vegetables from the pan, and crumble the sausage into their mothers without fear. the skillet and cook it until it is crisp. Brothers, friends, you must go on with your Combine the bread crumbs, the parsley, the herbs, the al struggle. monds (or pecans), and the wine-soaked raisins. Add en We, the comfortable, ough wine to the stuffing to moisten it. Add salt and pepper the sad; we, who have'heat, to taste. Add the cooked vegetables and the pork sausage and milk and sh~lter andbread; to the stuffing and toss all the ingredients together. we, who know nothing, because we own too many To roast the turkey: things, Wash the turkey (both inside and out) and dry it carefully. If it has been because we possess too many frozen, let it thaw overnight, and make sure that there are no icy chunks objects, left in it. Stuff the body and neck cavities of the bird with the ab
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Manuel Sanchez and Marcia Brooks are planning to be married on December 24, Christmas Eve, at Our Lady of G.uadalupe Church in Delano. 'Both Manuel (F;tts) and Marcia are full-time workers for the Huelga, Manuel in the hiring hall and Marcia in the EI Malcriado office. We wish.them much happiness.
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SUPPORT THl DllANO CRAPl STRIKl PLEASE DON'T BUY, ANY PERELLI-MINETTI PRODUCTS AMBASSADOR ail these right away f ____--This to: Antonio Perelli-Minetti This to: UFWOC Pond Road & Hwy 99 Box 130 ~ McFarland, Cal. 93250 Delano, Cal. 93215 TRIBUNO : i )DJK) Y aLIA\. 3:d01:M~ NY Nt SIH.L J.C1d .LON AHlA .. §1l G :;:::l ..... Reminder: o I pledge my support to the : i United Farm Workers Organiz- : I
ing Committee AFL-CIO (for- :I merly NFWA & AWOC) in its : I struggle with A: Perelli-Minetti : I & Sons. I support the efforts of : I ~ the striking Delano farm work- : I ers: to choose their own repre- : I sentatives to bargain collective- :. I ly with their employers. I !~h HI:::: I 00 (This boycott is endorsed by the ~;~ ~ ~ Executive Committee, An-CIO. : .f::·. Qlu6,.!!l.4] j I ~ George Meany, President) ~: ..... 63 ··Hn ] i , i i ~ ~.§ ~ :z;J 1~ .~;:l j ! j J • il il il ... u <5 When the rain comes, the strike in the grapes in De lano moves onto a kind of new front The lights burn very late in the so-called "Pink House, " a dilapidated tract home into which the expanding Farm 'Workers Union under Cesar Chavez has spread itself. When I res are worried that she will make a mistake: ask too go there it is sometimes to find Dolores Huerta study much; or give too much. And it is not the first time ing compulsory arbitration law with a burning inten that people have underestimated this beautiful little sity, her always-present supply of somewhat ragged woman. children trying to pester and distract her. It is Dolo res who is taking on the huge DiGiorgio Corporation in What do the people do when it rains? First there are contract negotiations, without a lawyer on the scene the "scabs": winter provides an equalling process and in Delano, and without any special knowledge, other there is no work for them as well as for the strikers. than the schoQI of experience. More important, she it My neighbors, for example: About twenty of them - is negotiating with hard-nosed professional union of mostly small children -- live in an ancient four room ficials for jurisdiction. People who don't know Dolo- farmhouse, with holes in the walls and the roof big enough to admit the dogs and cats. When it rains they just get wet, that's all, and now most of their chil dren are sick from it. The electricity has been off now for almost a week. Of course they want the strike to win, but they think they are too close to the margin to miss any opportunity for work that comes along. This is their first winter in California, and out of fear, stupidity or necessity, they have not joined the "Huelga. " DO:::Page ~1
PHOTOS BY EMMON CLARKE.
TEXT BY BILL ESHER
No work for the scabs, and less opportunity to picket ever going to really change the lives of farm wo'rkers for the strikers. About a hWldred strikers 'went to in all California and Texas. And while he was gone, Los Angeles last week for a 'gate collection" at the one of the old-line AFL-CIO organizers who have .:. entrances to the big auto plants and missile factories. been helping us, was tortured and maimed in the most The money they raised will help bolster the depleted bestial manner by Wlknown assailants. It is a huge strike fund. Without the help of the AFL-CIO, we power game, deadly serious, and all of us are willing probable couldn't make it, but their help is not really pawns in that game, because the stakes are very high: enough for us to make it very comfortably. Cesar is not for ourselves, but for the farm workers who have in Mexico, presumably laying the groundwork for no way out if we fail. closing the border, an essential task if the strike is Outside of the power game·, there is the daily routine which is not deadening because we can see the whole picture and our individual place in it. Every day Manuel Sanchez and Helen Serda "hold court" in their hiring hall -- which is a part of an old tortilla factory facing the freeway, a building they have to share with the Teatro Campesino, our tempestuous indiginous actors, who are right now playing to capacity crowds . of farm workers in the Pacific Northwest. Their tour there this month is the beginning of the "Huelga" in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Farm workers who see their performances will take it on themselves to organize those three states, using the small helps that we can give them. The process is just as simple and as complex as that.
While all this is going on, there are two trailers whic FILIPINO HALL. which sit in a muddy encampment on the edge of De where the lano. This is the miraculous Farm Workers Health strikers eat Clinic, which has actually survived since the begin- EL MALCRIADO:::Page 22 ning of the strike on.donations of time and money by dedicated doctors who drive 300 miles from San Francisco to Delano in order to spend a day treating people who desparately need their healing hands. In my only professional contact with them, their volun teer dentist fixed up my rotting teeth. The 'profes sional" relationship was gone; here was another hu man being just simply helping me, and together we were part of the whole thing that is the Delano strike. I guess that is what "community" really means. It really works: in spite of horrible conditions, impos sible tasks, disorganization and occasional stupidity, this saving force provides a continual regeneration for everyone here: our value as individuals is reaf firmed in the obvious value of the whole scene. It is because of this that the scabs want the strike to win, that Dolores has the strength to fight against hard bitten arbitration lawyers, that the Teatro can so easily communicate with the thousands of voiceless, ghost-like people who pick the crops.
In describing the whole thing, I haven't even scratch ed the surface: people fanning out from Delano across the whole country: Jerry and Jane Brown in the vine yards of New York State; Eugene Nelson, Tony Oren dain and the Chandlers in Rio Grande City, Texas, the end of the world, holding out against the impossi ble odds of an open border and ruthless police re DOLORES HUERTA WITH pression. The strike is on the streets of San Fran DIGIORGIO WORKERS, MAPPING cisco, where our workers there -- church people, OUT THE STRATEGY young radicals, rank-and-file unionists -- patiently walk the picket lines, scheme their way into the AND THE DEMANDS FOR newspapers, and raise money and food. Then there NEGOTIATION are the truck-chasers: strikers who follow the loads of grapes ~ distributors and stop them there with picket lines. There is the boycott: third in a succes sfulline. This one is against Perelli-Minetti and And there is the principle of non-violence which per Sons, a winery and vineyard in McFarland, Califor meates all of these activities. The picket line passed nia, five miles from here. Our job is to break down the test last month, when, after the striker Manuel their will to fight us by stopping the sale of their pro Rivera was viciously run down with a rancher's ducts wherever we can.
WINT(R IN O(lANO truck and crushed, they did not retaliate. This kind EL MALCRI.4DO:::Page 23 of thing is very, very hard to do, because it makes you very angry to see someone run down like this.
A week later that same picket line saw the capitula tion of the rancher, Goldberg and Sons, making the third victory for the farm workers: Schenley, Di I' Giorgio, and now Goldberg. Manuel Rivera is slowly recovering. , , oJ I haven't even covered a small portion of the many parts of the strike: the always dirty game of politics "OUR VALUE AS INDIVIDUALS in Sacramento and Washington where we need help as we need help everywhere. We expect tough anti IS REAFFIRMED IN THE OBVIOUS strike legislation and administration and we have to fight it in the only way that there is to fight on that VALUE OF THE WHOLE SCENE"... level -- to play the political game.
I also forgot to mention "Leroy's house." The real name is "Farm Worker Service Center, " but things seem to always get makeshift names around here. Leroy's House, next door to the Pink House, shel, ters a small corps of shock troops, who are experts George Ballis Photo (like Gilbert Padilla) in getting benefits to which farm worker union members and strikers are entitled un der state welfare and disability laws. They are also ready to fight police brutality and in the next breath, fill out a form for someone who can't read English. There is also a credit union, and there will soon be a co-op store. We have a piece of land, 80 acres outside of Delano, and someday it will be occupied with all of the now decentralized operations, and we WINTlR IN UllAND can all forget about broken glass, leaky roofs and heaters that don't work.
The Farm Worker Press is as poor as the strike of which it is an integral part, and it is only through all kinds of financial gymnastics that it is possible to publish our little newspaper and our few books and records. Right now we need money badly. At first we were selling "shares" of ownership in Farm Wor ker Press to our supporters for $10 each, but the ranchers are always keeping the law down on us, and our lawyer tells me that this is not legal. (It is often illegal to be poor.) So we beg readers of the El Mal criado to send us $10 'tokens of support, " so that we can expand our very important work of ke~ping every one informed about the strike, and more important, of providing a bigger and wider-circulated newspaper for the farm workers which is their own paper.
Our address is Farm Worker Press, Box 1060, De lano, California. We will give any specific strike contributions to the Union, or to the Clinic, but we do need money ourselves very badly and we are not a shamed to beg for it because of the work we are do ing.
And this is how ~inter finds the Strike in the Grapes in Delano, California. SPECIAL PROBLEM
Senorita lMA Senorita Alma:
A few weeks ago I had a ser ious problem, and I wrote to J aq~eline Kennedy asking her EDITOR'S NOTE: During the last few months we have received to help me. various letters in which our readers have asked for advice on Because I cannot write well their problems. These have not been taken care of because we I asked one of my neighbors so ~on have not had the right person to do this. This week a new that with her help I could do it tributor has joined our staff, and from this edition, she will be in and send it to Mrs. Kennedy. charge of this special section, which we will call SENORITA AL Mrs. Kennedy wrote back MA. Our readers can write to her, using whatever name they wish helping me in my problem, but sending their letters to SENORITA ALMA, Box 1060, Delano, Calif my neighbor who asked to see ornia. Do not worry about whether your letter is well written or the letter, kept it and refused poorly written" because we c an correct the writing wherever nec to give it back to me, saying essary. that since she was the one who wrote the letter, she could Dear Senorita Alma: keep it. To me this letter has great My husband, a man who before coming to California always treated me value, because the wife of ex well, never paying attention to other women, has now changed comple~ly. president Kennedy has troubl He does not treat me meanly, but he is no longer so attentive. ed herself to bother about an I know that he is goingwith another woman. My friends tell me ordinary woman like myself, I that the laws here protect wives, and I do not want him to make want to keep it to show to my a fool out of me. I thought of making a complaint in the courts, children when they grow up, so because there are times when he does not even give me enough that I can prove to them that money for the expenses, because he has spent all the money on there are people in this country his "new friend." What can I do? I still love him as much as that are worth imitating, if I did before, but I am becoming desparate. they ever become important. Do you think that my neighbor Rosa Maria will give me the letter back if Fresno, Calif. I present a complaint to the police? Estimada Rosa Maria, Senora Lopez H. Bakersfield, Calif. I know that you are one woman, Rosa Maria; but I know too that you are a thousand women, waiting patiently and suffering at home, wondering how many times you must forgive him and forget his succession of other women. And you wait your whole life, growing old while he continues to play. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX I think that too often you have been told.to for get. I suggest MESSAGE TO READERS: that you fight for yourself, because he won't realize that you The first person that exist and are a person unless you do. And he won't ever come writes the best answer to back to you (if you really want him) until you assert yourself the problem of Mrs. Lopez as a woman. Respect yourself: make yourself attractive--not will receive as a prize a for him but for everyone you meet, especially other men. Dont subscription to EL MAL be afraid to spend some money on a pretty dress--not for him, CRIADO for six months, but because it will make.Y2!! feel better. Don't be a slave to free. The answer will be your house; you will be happier if you do what you feel like do published on this same ing. Have lunch, even small parties, with your friends. page in the next edition. Remember that you connot force him to come back to you. You Write to SENORITA ALMA must learn to have a life that is not a part of him. Married Box 1060, Delano, Calif. people seldom remember this, but they love each other better Don't forget to put your when they are individuals. When he finds out that you are a name and address c~early complete person without him, he will again be attracted to you. on the answer. And if not, what have you lost, since you do not have him now. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ALMA
EL MALCRIADO:::Page 26 . (Reprint from AFL-CIO News 11-26-66) Progress in the Vineyards OURTEEN MONTHS AGO grape workers in California struck F40 companies, determined to win union recognition and decent pay and working conditions. Today, after months of sacrifice and dedication, these men and women are on their way to bunding a solid trade union movement of farm workers in California. Banded together in the. AFL-CIO United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, they have won representation elections in the four major grape operations as weD as at smaller firms. And they have done it withouf the protection and machinery af forded other American workers-the National Labor Relations Board. The act setting up the NLRB does not cover farm workers. So, if there are to be elections among these fiela workers, they have to bring the companies around to consenting to the balloting. There is no government agency involved that can order elections or con duct them; the workers must win the right to choose a bargaining agent, using whatever devices come to hand. • •• TIJE GRAPE WORKERS' cou~ge and dedication have been supported by the AFL-CIQ.and its affiliatts. Manpower and finances to aid the strikers have been provided. The labor movement at large has rallied to the cause, including the broadcasting of boycott cam paigns against growers who resisted a fair election procedure. The labor movement of California has demonstrated its complete involvement in the grape workers' cause. It has raised money, pick- . eted, demonstrated, .and made it clear that the grape workers were Last week the name of the town was Farmers not alone; that this was a battle of all workers to help those most in ville. The prize was won by Mrs. Francisca need win the basic dignity that comes with unionism and the im R. Fuentes of '716- W. Main St., Visalia, CaL' proved conditions that come with a collectively bargained contract. Other groups in the community have rallied to the side of the grape strikers-religious, fraternal and civic. The battle between the large growers with their vast holdings and the poverty-line farm ·workers has caught the attention also of the mass media. • • • THE GROUNDWORK for the present surge of success in bringing unionization to farm workers was laid many years ago. There were SEND YOUR ANSWER AND YOUR 'NAME a number of attempts to bring unionism to the exploited and brow AND ADDRESS TO: "GAME OF THE beaten farm workers, but they fell short. The growers exerted their TOWNS" P.O. BOX 1060, DELANO, CAL. naked power tOibreak early attempts and the work force was loosely knit and migratory. The various campaigns helped improve wages in some areas, but the power of the growers to dictate terms continued. In 1960 the AFL-CIO established an organizing committee that chalked up important gains in raising wages but feD short of winning meanindul and lasting union rec02Dition. WbOe this effort in the California fields continued the AFL-elO launched a determined and successful campaign to end the government policy allowing importation of farm workers. With imported labor re moved as a source of strikebreakers, oreaniziul! cam~ picked up momentum and today the UFWOC is breaking new RJ'OUDd. There is a long way to go, however, before the basic standards of American life are extended to farm workers. Organizing and collec tive bargaining are essential to this effort and will continue to spread with AFL-CIO support. But they must be aided by a revision of the nation's laws to give the farm worker the same protection extend (From page 5) ed to other workers-the right to hold bargaining elections, full LETTER FROM ... minimum wage coverage, protection of unemployment and work yet how they will treat me or whether or not they men's compensation laws. This is essential to further progress. will help me. I like very much to read your newspaper, and when I arrived here I immediately sent you 2 dol PARLIER HELPS lars for a subscription. If lowe you more, please The community of Parlier, California is not as let me know. big or as rich as San Francisco or Berkeley, but the I hope that the cause for which you are fighting, people of this town have helped the Huelga not just in favor of the farm worker, will progress until once, but every month in a tremendous way for all until you have your deSired success. With my 16 months of the strike. most sincere consideration and respect, Even when specific contributions are not mentioned here, the strikers of Delano remember with thanks Yours, the people of Parlier who have helped ~o much with food and money. Eufrasio Huerta This to.vn is an example of what all towns should Upland, Calif. do to help their striking brothers. EL MALCRIADO:::Page 27
The beauty and the spirit of the struggle does not know any differences, when it comes ·to fighting for a noble cause. The fact that from Delano there has been a magnificant example for the whole country, can be illustrated poignantly with the picture of these two beautiful girls. Above appears one of the countless young students of the Univer sity in Berkeley who have helped the strikers during the boycott of Perelli-Minetti in San Francisco. In the other picture, there is the attractive Yolanda Barrera during one of the weekly meetings of the Farm Workers Union. F.L MALCRIADO;;;Pu!!:e 28 " ' THE FARM WORKERS OF ALABAMA
Where, in.Order to Vote, One Pays With His Home,His Safety, af)d Sometimes His Life Farm worKers have been denied their rights for many they go to vote because many people had been threat years because they are poor and because their skins ening them with violence. In fact a number of people are many different colors. This is especially true in have been killed just ~ to vote! The national the South where most of the farm workers are Ne government finally said yes, the farm workers were groes and Mexicans. In Alabama the Student Non right, they did in fact have the right to vote. violent Coordinating Committee is doing a wonderful job of helping poor people to organize themselves to On November 8, when people all over the country , gain their rights. These brave people have been bea voted in the national electiops, the Negro farm work ten and jailea many times, but they, like those who ers in Lowndes County voted too. The rich landown are fighting in Delano, know that their cause is just ers and growers had tried to stop the government and will not give up until they win. from letting the farm workers vote, but they had fail ed. Now; because they had lost and were mad, they Right now something is happening in Alabama which retaliated by throwing large numbers of farm work is so terrible that everyone in the country should ers off of their lands. This land had been the only know about it. For a long time the Negro farm work home for these farm workers for many years. Now, ers there have been denied the right to vote, a right only because they had exercised their right to vote, which is basic to all citizens in a free country. Be they were left without any homes at all. cause all of the politicians mthe state are against Besides being thrown out of their homes, many of the them, the people in Lowndes County, Alabama, or farm workers who had voted were the victims of bru ganized their own political party which is called'the tal attacks. One, Andrew Jones, had to spend two Lowndes County Freedom Party. This organization, days in the hospital in Selma, Alabama, because he like the NFWA, is fighting to gain a decent life for had been beaten so badly that he had his skull frac its members. tured. The rich landowners think that the farm workers will The people in the Lowndes County Freedom Party de have to give in to them because they have no place to clared a long time ago that they had a right to vote live. But they are wrong. With the help of people like any other citizen in the United States. They asked the national government to protect them when (Contd. on page 30) EL MALCRI.A.DO:::Page 29 looking Back Two Years The Philosophy of Cesar Chavez
/ Tirans'lated IFrom EI Malcriado 1;1 December 15;1964
TIlE MOVEMENT OF THE FARM WORKERS DESTINED PATH, TO DO WHAT ALWAYS ASSOCIA TION IS ORGANIZED SO THAT ALI HAS TO BE DONE SO THAT THE GOALS OJ THE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY BELONG. THE ASSOCIATION CAN BE REACHED. IF UNITY. OF LIFE COMES TO OUR MOVE- WE WANT THE MOVEMENT TO DEVELOP MENT THROUGH THE COOPERATION OF AND THE ASSOCIATION TO PERFECT IT- THE WORKER. THE FARM WORKERS .AS- SELF, IT IS NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN A SOCIATION IS A COLLECTIVE UNDERTAK- UNITY OF DOCTRINE, A UNITY OF ME- lNG, WHICH, BE COLLECTIVE MEANS, THODS, AND A UNITY OF STRUCTURE WORKS TO PROVIDE THE ECONOMIC BA- WHICH WILL ASSURE THE GOALS OF THE SIS THAT THE FARM WORKERS NEED TO MOVEMENT. THIS UNITY MEANS THAT ASSURE A BETTER LIFE, SOCIALLY, MOR- WE MUST MAKE SACRIFICES, BUT THESE ALLY AND ECONOMICALLY. AT THE ARE NECESSARY TO SUSTAIN THE LIFE SAME TIME THE ASSOCIATION WORKS TO OF THE WHOLE ORGANIZATION; THEY ARE RESTORE TO MAN THAT INDEPENDENCE ESSENTI.A.L. WHEN WE DECIDE ON THE AND LffiERTY WHICH WILL ASSURE HIM GOAL OF A PARTICULAR WORK, IT IS HIS DIGNITY AND HIS SOLIDARITY WITH NECESSARY TO HOLD ON TO IT, NOT ON- OTHER MEN. LY WITH OUR LIPS, BUT ALWAYS ACTIVE LY; IT IS NECESSARY FOR THIS GOAL TO THE MISSION OF THE LEADERS -- WHICH BECOME A RULE OF LIFE. HE WHO IS THE MISSION OF ANY AUTHORITY -- IS KNOWS PRINCIPLES IS NOT EQUAL TO HE TO SUSTAIN 'THE MOVEMENT, TO KEEP WHO LOVES THEM· ,THE FARM WORKERS ASSOCIATION ON ITS VIVA LA CAUSA!!
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Chr.ismas ...· (Continued from page 5)
your rights - simple jus .this thing through the tice. hard winter months I am sorry to tell you, Right after Xmas when' however,. that I am not I get my pension check able to be active as I am for the beginning of 1967 recuperating from se I'll forward $5.00, whicn vere, internal injuries I can not do now on ac suffered in Sept. 1965. I count of going "all-out" was in the hospital six for Xmas already times in 1965. So, I am on a pension However, an idea oc and not able to ba active curred to me which I beyond the ways I have don't know if you'll be a indicated above. Of ble to execute or not course, there is always If you have any circu prayer, and I'll get in " •••• He came into the hall just after the stri lars or printed or mime touch with our Buffalo kers had finished eating. Nobody wanted to do :ographed leaflets or ma Carmelites, Dominicans the dishes. .There was a mountain of dirty ,terial that could be fold also the poor Clares at plates in the kitchen and they were calling for ed and enclosed in about Rockford, Ill., for re volunteers, but without success. So he said, 100 of my Xmas greet membrance in their 'PH :wash them9, and he did~ ings, I'd be happy to do prayers and novenas. If (Reported by an Arvin worker who went to so -and willing to pay you possible to carry out any the Los Angeles Gate Collection and saw for this material. Right of my suggestions, do Cesar Chavez washing the dishes). .now, when everyone is not delay, as I don't y . about to send far and want to delay sending The "Crime" o-f Voting....
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