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On Pilgrin-I-Age· by DOROTHY DAY Ialso at Schools and Seminaries, So We at Maryknoll: .And Be Able Then to Here at St .CATHOLIC WORKER 8ubscription1 Vol. X:XXVI No. 8 OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, 1970 250 Per Year Price le Farm Workers; New Drive By REV. JAMES L. DRAKE To Organize Soon it will be nine years since Cesar and Helen moved to Delano to "bulld a Working Poor union for farm workers." In retrospect, the move demanded such faith and -.... By PAT JORDAN audacity that it is a wonder that one Recently Honore Daumier's · moving family would summon the courage to etching "If the workers :fight, how begin. Think about it! Several million shall the house be built?" appeared in workers hounded by hunger, excluded a New York exhibiti()n. While the etch­ I from most basic rights guaranteed ing ls concerned with man's violence, laboring men in this nation, and one its question ls well taken. Could It be , family says, "Well, there should be a that wars and confrontation issue not union, so let's build one." only from politicians' gimmickry but The events of those nine years form also from the thirst of poor and just compact lessons in organizing. Few men for equanimity? The question ls revolutionary e1l'orts are initiated and self-answering. carried to fruition in this day of the Since its inception, the Catholic OEO and other pseudo-movements. Worker has shown a dedication to the But, here is a drive that is succeeding plight of the poor. This has not been and which has not destroyed itself restricted to place or nationality, color through internal friction. or religion. And it. has embodied allegi­ So what are the lessons? ances with other groups seeking the First, and simply, one must begin! Slater Mary Lou Rose, M.M., Dar·es·Salaam.. Tanzania. allev.fation of class and economic strug­ Oak trees do not grow where no acorns gle. There has not been a univocal are planted. In 1961, men fat at bars endorsement of all such groups' means and argued how to build a farm work­ cautious about the source of financial through five years of su1l'ering was on the part of the CW, and when there ers' union. Students even went so far support in the pre-strlke years. Even born in the Credit Union. Firm organi­ was not, such was generally made clear as to make erudite studies of the mat­ his closest friends could seldom con­ zation requires a sound structure, and in these pages. (You will note the July­ ter. But Cesar and Helen got the revo­ vince him to accept five dollars for the Credit Union has served· as the August issue's approach to the Black lutionary -idea that the wisest way to food. His reasoning: "If the workers structura.l steel ot the Union. Panther Party.) Now, happily, we bring get from point A to point B was to take really_ want what I am o1l'ering, they Many times we try to take short­ to your attention the ordered struggle step one ... they moved to Delano. will pay for it through dues." Often cuts, launching· grand organizational of the working poor under the National .enough it a.ppeared the workers did not There seems ~ to be much pessimism schemes, demanding firm underpin­ Co u n c 11 of Distributive workers of about the possibility of change. And want what he offered. In the :winter of nings, as though people cluster to­ America. yet there is 'Such a flood of talk about 1963, the family suffered greatly. But the gether a:s simply as tiny magnets. But The NCDWA was constituted at Suf­ revolution and radical movements. I principle worked. The workers shaped the history of the farm workers' folk Va. on May 4, 1969. Many ot its wonder if there has ever been 1n our the organization by telling what they union-building shows how needed ls at­ members had or were about to disa1l'ili­ nation such a turgid situation. There is needed. What they didn't need, they tention to the details of trust-building. ate themselves from the Retail, Whole­ . to..gtv~. -.~ e--part o!"'!n~y '€6 •tdn't buy. Thus, the organizer The organization which seeks to build sale and Department Store u n 1 on, --consider experiment. Yet, few are tak- must 11rst be a.t the other's mercy. By new and freer forms of community AFL-CIO, on grounds that it did not ing the concrete step of "moving to asking for workers' money to bulld the must begin and grow as a. family, practically represent them, nor did Its Delano"-0r wherever. organization, Cesar was forming hun­ teaching and trusting each · newly leadership respond to the union's large Cesar and Helen make a bold organi­ dreds of partnerships. .added member. Officers, boards, trus­ minority constituencies. As Cleveland zational suggestion. Their li!e is their To formalize these partnerships, tees-these are mere formalities. Eco­ Robinson, an ofrlclar of distinguished lesson. People will f<>llow if you are nothing served better than the Credit nomic interdependence and personal District 65 in New York City, said to willing to show direction. The Chavez' Union. The· trust buHt through that trust are the real source of strength in the founding conference of NCDWA, seem to place a tremendous responsi­ mechanism was a lasting glue. Such a confrontation with freedom-robbing "We know there are millions of unor­ bility on our shoulders. They say to trust was absolutely necessary for con­ powers. ganized workers in this country and a radicals everywhe;e: "Don't talk; act! frontation with the growers. I belleve Organizations that are lasting are highly disproportionate number of You'll be surprised by the results." that much of the spirit of mutual as­ built .as a pyramid. One block must be them are black and Spanish-speaking. It ls clear now why Cesar was so alstance which bore the grape strikers (Continued on page 8) (Continued OD page 8) On Pilgrin-i-age· By DOROTHY DAY ialso at schools and seminaries, so we at Maryknoll: .and be able then to Here at St. Joseph's House of Hos-. can say that we worked our way to give an account of the Ujamaa vil­ pitality we are overrup with youth both It I started to report all my im­ and from Australia, where we stayed lages which are part of the socializa­ on the farm and in the city and these pressions of Australia, India, Africa, three weeks. tion plans of this new and advancing young ones throw themselves into the England it ·would take a volume and The tickets purchased for us meant country in East Africa. Here 1s a leader work with such fervor and such a spirit r hope all my notes which I have we had stopovers on the way back, at who is engaged in a peaceable revolu­ of joy that the older members of the kept in disjointed fashion, but very Hong Kong, in India at Calcutta, New tion, socializing or natfonalizing the community are being renewed con­ \ faithfully, will come out some day in Delhi and Bombay; at Dares-Salaam land, and the schools and hospitals stantly 1n the spirit of the work. There book form. Certainly there is not (Port of Peace) in Tanzania; a day which were started by the Maryknoll are tensions of course, race tensions room to do justice to such a trip in in Rome and a week in England. We order. I delight in this remarkable and and class tensions, and those between the columns · of this eight-page tab­ su1l'ered the cold in Australia where peaceable happening. the old and the young, but the pains loid which is always overflowing. Or it was still winter, a flood in Calcutta, The speeches of Julius Nyerere, of are growing pains. No one can say the to do justice to the people we met on and a. day of bombings (150 were ex­ Tanzania, have come out in paper­ Catholic Worker ls stagnant. the way, beginning with Fr. Roger plqded the day after we arrived, after back, published by Oxford University Joseph .l\lotyka 1903-1970 Pryke and Fr. John He1l'ey who were warnings in the press to stay o1l' the Press. To me, the Arusha Declaration It was not so many years after the responsible for the trip · in the :first streets), had peaceful visits with old sounds like Peter Maurin's ideas in-: Catholic Worker started in the thirties place, since they sent Eileen Egan friends in New Delhi, twenty-four carnate. that we met "Smokey Joe" as he called - and me the ro@d trip tickets. hours in Bombay. and a week in Tan­ Since I came back I have been read­ himself, who gravitated between Mott They say they met me- first back zani·a,' and finally more speaking in ing about Kenneth Kaunda, president Street where we were living then, and in the· time of the second world war England. On leaving London high­ of Zambia, a neighboring and even the Bowery where he had many a com­ when they were seminarians, evicted, jacking was at its height and we had larger territory which used to be part rade. It was some years before he really one might say, from Rome and on their to pass through some kind of a bar­ of Rhodesia. He and Julius Nyerere in settled· down and became a "Catholic way back through the States to the rier at the airport which lit up on Africa, stand in my mind with Cesar Worker." It was in the time of our discovering any metal in o:ur clothes greatest need when the second world west coast where they took ship for or baggage.
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