DINNER COMMITTEE

Sigmund Arywitz SPONSORS Bishop Juan Arzube Aileen Adams Congresswoman Yvonne Braithwaite Burke Assm. Richard Alatorre Assm. Jim Keysor Rev. Priscilla Chaplin Congressman Glenn Anderson Meliss Keller Charles F. Armin Rev. Thomas Kilgore Sam Cordova Ralph Arriola Louis & Ruby Knowles Congressman James Corman Hal Ashby Rev. J. M. Lawson, Jr. Senator Alan Cranston Edward Asner Jack Leckie Rev. William H. Atwill Mildred & Edward Lewis Supervisor Ed Edelman Art Avila David Lizarraga Rabbi Meyer Heller Dr. Wes Balbuena Rev. Amador Lopez, OMI Mr. and Mrs. Norman Lear Harmon R. Ballin Hank Lopez Rabbi Leonard Beerman Samuel McNeal, Jr. Speaker Leo T. McCarthy Jeff Berg Ray Mendoza Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mazursky Candice Bergen Mr. & Mrs. Alex Miramon Sr. Patricia Marie Mulpeters Marilyn & Alan Bergman W. D. "Red" Mitchell Jack Blackburn Max Mont Paul Newman The Very Rev. John F. Blethan, O.S.A. Dr. Miguel Montes William Piercy, Jr. Board of Rabbis ofSouthern Barbara Nardella Congressman Edward Roybal Peter Bonerz Marcia Nasatir Mr. & Mrs. William Chandler -Dr. Julian Nava Dr. Carl Segerhammar Dr. Karl J. Christ Gwen Newton Stanley K. Sheinbaum Rev. Francis Colborn Rev. Truman Northup Jerry Whipple Rev. George Cole Rev. Stanley Olson Ruth Compagnon Seniel Ostrow Laura DeLacy Joan Palevsky MASTER OF CEREMONIES Rev. William L. Diamond Max Palevsky Steve Allen Joan Didion and John Dunne Vina M. Parra Ass. Julian C. Dixon Robert J. Petris Dorothea and Oliver Eggers Jim Quillin Rabbi Harry Essrig Robert Radnitz Henry Fiering Rabbi Sanford Ragins Dave Fishman Assm. Leon D. Ralph Rev. Sean Flanagan David Rintels Mr. & Mrs. Henry Fonda Senator Alan Robbins Charles Fox Mr. & Mrs. Seymour Robinson Rabbi Allen Freehling Senator David Roberti Joe Garcia Dr. Armando M. Rodriguez Louis Garcia J. J. Rodriguez Rev. Oliver Garver, Jr. Rev. Juan Romero Will Geer Assm. Herschel Rosenthal William L. Gilbert Richard Roth Henry Giler and Edith Pollach Rev. Stephen Ryan David Gilmore Commissioner Joseph Sanchez M/M Roy Giordano H. O'Niel Shanks "Bishop Charles Golden Manuel Sierras Syd Goldfarb Rev. John G. Simmons Tom Smothers Clarence Gregory M/M Michael Straeter Gilbert Guzman Al Tafoya Mr. & Mrs Raoul Teilhet Rev. Paschal Hardy Mr. & Mrs. Hal E. Tobin Rev. Ray Heer Assm. Art Torres Buck Henry Richard C. Vasquez Al Hernandez Jeanne Valvo Vic Hochee Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hogan Rev. Frank Wagner, OMI Rector Luther O. Ison Dennis Weaver Rabbi Sidney and Ms. Betty Jacobs Paula Weinstein Rev. Richard Jiru, SOB Mimi (Mrs. Bernie) West Dr. James E."Jones Florence M. White Julian J. Keiser Alfred K. Whitehead (Partial list) Photo: Gayanne Fietinghoff Photographed and Edited by Sound Mixing GLEN PEARCY TODD BOEKELHEIDE Still Photographs Location Sound Recorded by BOB FITCH CRESSON FRALEY GEORGE BALLIS GAYANNE FIETINGHOFF RICK TEJADA·FLORES DAVE SMITH GLEN PEARCY GLEN PEARCY EL MALeR/ADO Additional Footage Editorial Consultant RICK TEJADA·FLORES ROBERT DALVA Production & Post-Production Assistance General Consultant KEN DOYLE ROBERT NEWMAN FRANKLIN GREER MICHAEL WADLEIGH Narration Written by SUSAN PEARCY GLEN PEARCY KAREN OHMANS PETER MATTHIESSEN PUBLIC MEDIA CENTER LUIS VALDEZ Color, Titles & Opticals by CONSOLIDATED FILM INDUSTRIES, Hollywood Narration Spoken by Edited & Mixed at LUIS VALDEZ AMERICAN ZOETROPE, Thirteen years ago, in April, 1962, Cesar Chavez" Helen his wife, and their eight children moved into a two­ bedroom house on Kensington Street, Delano. At ap­ proximately the same time, the AFL-CIO decided to strengthen its drive to organize farm workers and dispatched fresh organizers to several locations in the state. The California Migrant Ministry, now known as the National Farm Worker Ministry, took the historic step of placing staff in the fields along side union organizers. And, in the deep South, a campaign to liberate Black Americans was raging.

Between 1962 and September, 1965, the fledgling National Farm Worker Association, formed by Cesar and a handful of determined organizers, grew to several thousand members. A credit union, the first for migrant farm workers, an automotive cooperative, a newspaper, service center, and death benefit insurance plan were established... all without foundation or government grants, depending solely upon the will of the farm worker union members for support.

But in that incredible September of 1965, four mighty streams - the NFWA, the religious, civil rights and labor movements converged to support what is now known as the Great Delano Grape Strike.

Members of the predominantly Filippino AFL-CIO and the Chicano NFWA formed a joint strike committee dedicated to bringing the powerful table grape growers of California to the bargaining table. Their strike was met by sheriff's deputies at riot alert, dogs, private police, guns, helicopter patrols, and of course strike­ breakers recruited by labor contractors. The American Farm Bureau, the Chamber of Commerce, John Birch Society, and later the Nixon-Reagan Axis, joined hands in an alliance of Right-Might, determined to crush the farm workers' movement. The United Auto Workers, International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, and other independent labor organizations threw their weight behind La Causa. And even then, the battle, as in so many in the agricultural fields before, looked hopeless.

Then a new tactic was tried. In spite of those who said it wouldn't work, a consumer boycott of table grapes was launched. Student volunteers and farm workers literally rode the rails and hitch hiked to distant cities to ask the public not to buy grapes. Through a sacrifice rarely ex­ ceeded in the history of the American Labor Movement, workers from the lush vineyards fanned out across the entire world. Like a fist slowly closing, the grip on grower profits tightened, until, in the summer of 1970, Pay stub of an undocumented worker in table grape growers from Coachella to Chowchilla Fresno County. The worker will never see any Social Security. The labor contractor charlles trooped up to the bargaining table and made their peace $77.50 for bad food and unsanitary housIng and ded·ucts $20 for the cost of smuggling with the new farm workers union, now called United the worker into the U.S. The total smuggling fee is usually $250-$400. Farm Workers, AFL-CIO. Meanwhile, other skirmishes were fought and won: Over four thousand farm worker strikers were arrested Gallo, Almaden, Christian Brothers, Novitiate, Fran­ for refusing to obey unconstitutional injunctions. Hun­ zia, Perelli-Minetti" Schenley, and Italian Swiss Colony dreds were gassed and beaten. Two were killed. felt the sting of the strike and boycott, fought back, and finally signed contracts with the union. Thus, almost The Gallo Wine Company and the table grape growers 60,000 migrant farm workers covered by union con­ have all signed contracts with the Teamster without per­ tracts saw their labor respected, their wages raised from mitting their workers the simple dignity of casting a vote 90 cents to $2.50 per hour, their health protected by a for the union of their choice. Farm workers have been medical plan, and their lives lengthened by protections robbed of their union contracts and today are in slavery. against deadly organo-phosphate pesticides in the fields. They must pay dues to Frank Fitzsimmon's union For a while it seemed that the dreadful statistic quoted against their will, or be fired. by the U.S. Department of Labor, that farm workers enjoy a life expectancy of only 49 years, would be erased And so, Gallo, grape and lettuce strikers are boycotting and forgotten. Victorious and exhausted, farm worker again. organizers returned to their homes to begin to enjoy the fruits of the long struggle. But barely before the ink was They are fighting for their lives. dry on the grape contracts, signed in the summer of 1970, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters an­ Fight beside them. nounced a campaign to wipe out the momentum of the UFW by signing contracts with all the lettuce growers in the Salinas Valley. Outraged, UFW members in the let­ tuce fields carried out the largest and most effective agricultural strike in the history of the .

In a matter of days, however, the picketing was prohibited by the growers' traditional friends, the medieval-minded, black-robed rural judges. Un­ daunted, the union pressed forward with a boycott of head lettuce, which continues to this day.

Meanwhile, labor peace settled over the vineyards. Even the hated labor contractors, with their man-slaughtering buses, were driven from the fields and replaced by hiring halls. In 1972, just ten years after Cesar, Helen and family had moved to Delano, the number of migrant children graduating from high school had risen 700070. Farm workers were settling down, participating in local politics, and enjoying long-sought stability.

Then, on April 16, 1973, these table grape contracts ex­ pired in Coachella Valley. The outlook was not good for renewal. In fact, labor leaders, churchmen, and jour­ nalists were appalled to hear of the incredible alliance announced by Teamster International President, Frank Fitzsimmons at the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau. But there it was, out in the open, a blatant conspiracy between these two giants to destroy the . In the face of appeals for reason from the National Conference of Bishops, the wedding took place. The Teamsters and the Growers honeymooned, and gave birth to a scrap of paper they named a contract.

Again, as in the lettuce dispute, the outraged farm workers struck with all their might. Again, the courts came to the defense of the agri-business Giants. And this time, in Kern County, the full force of the Sheriff's Department was thrown into the battle on the side of the Growers and Teamsters. VIVA LA CAUSA! Victory to the UFW, Cesar, and the dedicated workers, in the greatest cause of ourtime.

Jerome and Julie Harris VIVA CRAVEZ! Parents of Vivian and Jim Drake

TO VICTORYlllll Joan Palevsky

Syd Goldfarb and Friends

BOYCOTT non-UFW GRAPES, HEAD LETTUCE VIVA LA CAUSA! and GALLO WINES

Art Torres Local2I3 Leather Luggage, Handbag, U Allied Assemblyman.56th District Products Workers Union

Max Roth, Executive Secretary Mary Lou Medina, President We, who support the struggle 01 the AlShaw, Vice-President Spanish Workers to build Trade Unions Lito Moriel, Organizer of their choice and their right to strike tobettertheir Dvlngconditions SALUTE The FARM WORKERS for their heroic contribution to the entire labor movement. COMMITTEE lor a DEMOCRATIC SPAIN Photo: Bob Gumpert. Above: E. & J. Gallo wine tanks and Gallo Labor Camp No.2. In the one room shown here lived Filipe Miramontes, his wife and their three daughters. The room lacks the most basic plumbing. In June, 1973, this family, along with dozens of other Gallo strikers were evicted, after refusing to work under a sweetheart Teamster contract. Below: A Gallo Striker working on the boycott in San Francisco. We urge all trade unionists ... all working men and women ... to further their support of our brothers and sisters in th,e UFWA

Los Angeles (.A~ounty Federation of Labor, AFL-L10

J. J. RODRIGUEZ, President SIGMUND ARYWITZ, Executive Secretary Above: Jerry Whipple, Regional Director, United Auto Workers, Region 6. Below: Sigmund Arywitz, Executive Secretary-Treasurer County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO and Charles Bratton, President of United Steel­ workers, Local 1845. the east los angeles communiiy union a communiiy development corporation TELIII David Lizarraga, executive director 1330 south atlantic boulevard, east los angeles, co, 90022· 213/268-6745

April 16, 1975 To the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO: Those of us at TELECU wish to express our support for the United Farm Workers and their boycott of grapes, head lettuce, and Gallo wines (all wines made in Modesto, Ca.). We further applaud their new documentary film, FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES, depicting the historic and valient strike of 1973.

David C. Lizarraga, Director Business Development, Operations & Assistance • Communications Housing & Urban Development • Manpower • Social Services

SEIU Local 660 supports its brothers and sisters in the UFW.

We believe in your struggle because it is ours too. , •

Local 660, SEIU (AFL-CIO) Los Angeles County Employees Association THE AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE WISHES

THEIR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE UNITED FARM

WORKERS OF AMERICA CONTINUING STRENGTH AND COURAGE

IN THEIR GREAT STRUGGLE FOR DIGNITY AND JUSTICE.

"but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings

like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not be faint." -Isaiah

Space contributed by a friend OFFICERS AND MEMBERSHIP· UAW LOCAL 509 JOINS UNITED FARM WORKERS STRUGGLE!!

UAW Local 509, with a membership of ten thousand members located in eighty shops throughout Southern California, has been a continuous ally of the United Farm Workers' struggle since 1965.

The officers have not only followed the UAW - farm worker policies under the leadership of the late President Walter Reuther and President Leonard Woodcock, but have provided strong support to assure continued farm workers support throughout the membership of our great Union.

Many farm workers leave the fields and move into the industries of Southern California.

Local 509 appreciate help from those workers in our efforts to organize the unorganized.

Local 509 extends best wishes and offers continued support to the UFW efforts.

OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE BOARD, LOCAL 509, UAW

Bob Laster, President Julian Cervantes, Vice President Howard Dickerson, Vice President Pete Peterson, Vice President Alex Sweeten, Vice President Paul Bluto, Financial Secretary From the United Steelworkers of America Local No. 1845

Executive Board - President, Charles Bratton Vice President, Wilfred Anderson Recording Secretary, Cruz Montemayor Financial Secretary, Hermes Paiz Treasurer, Jinny Gaines Trustee Ernest Rodriguez Guide Marcelino Muga Trustee Walter Fuller Guide Valentine Ramirez Trustee Lloyd Williams Guide Howard Hansen

"Those who profess to favor freedom yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful of its mighty waters." •••Frederick Douglass

Labor justice for Farm Workers SOCIEDAD PROGRESISTA MEXICANA INC. Logia "2do. Centenario de Hidalgo" No. 56 is labor justice for all.

Cornelius Wall, International Vice-President SAN FERNANDO CALIFORNIA 1954 1975 Western States Region EDUCATION-RESPETO-PATRIOTISMO International Ladies Garment Workers Union Mesa Directlva 1975

Presldente • Jacinto Arteaga ler Vice presldente - Beatrlz Garcia 2do Vice presldente • Alberto Mendoza Secretario - Jesus Perez Tesorera - Mary Martinez Pro-Tesorera - Angelita Imperial ler Vocal y Deleg~do - Salvador Garcia 2do Vor.al· Enrique Marin The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Mariscal - Ida Negrete congratulate Guardian - AllJert Chavez The United Fann Workers of America on the Pro·Estandarte - Helen Mendoza second anniversary of their strike in· the Comlslon de Hacienda 3er Vocal Salomon Rodriguez Coachella Valley and wish them success in their Comlslon Investlgadora efforts t\» organize the agricultural workers of Rafael Sanchez Fellcitas Sanchez this nation. Matllde Arteaga OCAW District 1 Suplente Delegado - Carlos Sou UN IDEAL PROGRESISTA, MERECE APOYO Y RESPETO "OBRAS SON AMORES NO FALSAS RAZONES" ANONIMO COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA· AFL·CIO ORANGE COUNTY CWA LOCAL IISIO Salutes CESAR CHAVEZ

MichaelCorcoran, Pres. James Carrick, Exec. VP Michael Drake, Sec·Treas. Jack Brantley,VP Dick Luthi, VP

Executive Board Members Dick Bevans John Pope Jerry Pickel Marie Ridge Nan Stephens Bruce Mayer Jess Grice Tim O'Leary Dick Kuchta Calvin Foster Red Burns .VIVA LA HUELGA!

•••An injuryto one is an injuryto all••• U. A. Pipe Trades District Council I6 Carpenters Supportsyour effortsto obtain decent wages andworking conditions Local IOS2 for farm workers.

Social Action Committee .51 SE PUEDE! of the

Sisters of Providence Rank and File Carpenters of Local IOS2 Southern California COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA· AFL·CIO BY CONVENTION ACTION SUPPORTSUFWA

VIVA LA HUELGA

DISTRICT ELEVEN Dina Beaumont Bill Demers

So. Calif. CWA Local· 11500· Myrl Jenkins, Pres. Marj Terflinger, Exec. VP Louise Lienau, Sec-Treas Shirley Murphy, VP Frances Valencia, VP Betty Hukill, VP Martha Brychel, VP

Arcadia CWA Local· 11505 . Dave Hart, Pres. Gerald Stattery, VP Charlene Boyer, Secretary George Reeley, Treasurer Bruce Stillwell, Chief Steward

SanDiego CWA Local· 11509 . Don Banning, Pres. Bill Quirk, Exec. VP Barbara Daniels, Sec-Treas Sylvester Armstrong, VP Louise Rogers, VP John Needy, VP Dan Adkins, VP

Harbor CWA Local . 11513· Delbert McBride, Pres. Anthony Bixler, Exec. VP Alice Peck, Sec-Treas Michael Hartican, VP John Bourguignon, VP Robert Smith, VP Carmen Hernandez, VP Ronald Cawdrey, VP

Santa Monica CWA Local· 11576· Phil Maher, Pres. Bobbi Marellino, VP Stan Lowry, Sec-Treas

Santa Barbara CWA Local· 11576 . Greg Carlson, Pres. Jean Taggart, VP William Wodarczak, Sec-Treas

Pomona·Palm Springs CWA Jack Stowers, Pres. Local· 11588· Mike Crowell, Exec. VP Bob Haselwerdt, Exec. VP Joel Clifton, Sec-Treas Al Smith, VP Bill Fitzgerald, VP Raleigh Beattie, VP 1111 LA SA! Photo: Gayanne Fietinghoff OUR EVERLASTING SUPPORT TO

THE UNITED FARMWORKERS OF AMERICA ~ ~ Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows PROGRAM

INVOCATION Roberto de la Cruz, Gallo Striker MUSIC Los Comperos INTRODUCTIONS Jim Drake MASTER OF CEREMONIES Steve Allen SPEAKERS Al Gruhn, President, California State Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO Sigmund Arywitz, Secretary Treasurer, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO Jerry Whipple, Director, Region 6, United Auto Workers Assemblyman Richard Alatorre

Stanley K. Sheinbaum Glen Pearcy, director, Fighting For Our Lives Taj Mahal

FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES Cesar Chavez

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People have joinedtogether in great struggles from time immemorial and certainly one of the great struggles of the 20th century is that of the United Farm Workers Union which, like all just struggles, eventuallywill prevail. "Justice, Justiceshall3'ou pursue"

...Deuteronom3' J6:~O

THE BOARD OF RABBIS of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Rabbi Meyer HeUer, President Rabbi Harry Essrig, Vice-President Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman, Vice-President Rabbi Sidney Jacobs, Chairman,Social Action Committee

Rabbi Sanford Ragins Rabbi AUen I. Freehling

"I wish to express my thanks to those WE'RE WITH YOU CESAR ALL THE WA' people listed belowwho responded OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF without question when I asked for their support for such a worthy cause." MUSICIANS UNION LOCAL 47 . ..Gil a Cristina Guzman. AMERICAN FEDERATI-oN OF MUSICIAJ-l Kathy Rivas Angel & Corinne Munoz AFL·CIO Fred Gonzales Edye Wade Blu Lantern Elsa Karen Braden Carl Carney David A. Nelson Sal Holguin Veronica Gibson Joseph Luna Martha E. DeSoto Ramiro Rodriguez Wesley & Julia Greenwood Hank Ellis Robert & Azizah Amundson Bill Nesbit Mary Carmen Ceja Bob Hine Joe & Donna Estrada Nancy Hughey Russell & Wanda Mishler "Ala chingada con la lechuga y las uvas! Robert & Alice Guzman Sam & Barbara Buttner Ray & Hope Garcia Georgia D. Ricci .. .Thomas Aquinas (age 5) Edan Prabhu Bob & Linda Llamas Orb & Norma Coronado John & Vielka Ryan and Armando Trujillo John &Toni Regaldo Frances Genevieve (age 6) Juan & Connie Escobedo J. Michael Mendez Pete & Linda Guzman (Children of Frank and Inez Quevedo) Best of Luck Barbers Union LocallDDD

HASTA LA VICTORIA!

Office & Professional Employees International Union AFL-CIO Local No. 30 BOYCOTT Gallo MADRIA ~~DRIA SANGRIA BOONE'S FARM RED MOUNTAIN SPANADA TYROLIA PAISANO WOLFE & SON EDEN ROC CARLO ROSSI THUNDERBIRD ANDRE any wine with Modesto, Ca. on the label is GALLO. Boycotts have been an essential part of past farmworker victories. To help protect farmworkers rights DON'T BUY 15,000 0 THESE LABELS. MOD€5TO M~RCHh+ l'J,. CITY HALL LOS ANGELES 90012 OFFICE OF TH E MAYOR TOM BRADLEY 485-3311 MAYOR

To the United Farm Workers of America: All of my life, I have fought, by every legal means, the indignities and deprivations visited on blacks, browns and other minorities and subjugated peoples. I am continuing that fight and expect to carry it on until every human being has the full dignity and respect, and all the rights, to which each of us is entitled. I therefore believe that your struggle is mine. It is nothing more, nor less, than the non-violent struggle for a decent and fair chance, an opportunity to live in peace and harmony with nature, neighbors and oneself, with adequate compensation and conditions for labor and time. I personally support these efforts by UFWA and others elsewhere who are fighting humanity's fight.

Viva la causa, Tom Bradley, Mayor Manuel Aragon, Jr., Deputy Mayor Maurice Weiner, Deputy Mayor ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS HUELGAI Benedictine Sisters - St Lucy's Priory Officers and Members of Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Charnofsky Helen Dahlstrom EvaG. Doyle Sprinkler Fitters Eileen Foster Helen Greenberg Immaculate Conception Province Local No. 709 Adrian Dominican Sisters Instituto del Pueblo Lou Labazio Annette and Gordon Leis William and Stella Margolis Joan Mendelson Julius Milstein Virginia Mulrooney Richard Newmark Miraa Joann Neill Viva la Causa! Quentin and Paula Ogren Frank and Molly Pina Mr. & Mrs. J. Nives Quinn, Jr. PAINTER'S John B. Rambo Karol Roff Local 1348 Leigh Rose Deborah Rosenfelt Fred Sainz Howard and Michael Schug William Henry Taylor 420 N. Soto, Los Angeles United Professors of California Local 1384 AFT. AFL-CIO Martin and Ruth Weiss Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Wyatt, Jr. Myron and Carol Wollin Special Thanks to Kathy Chandler Stella Cordova Carol Covelli Franciscan Communications YOUR FIGHT IS OUR FIGHT! Center Sadie Doroshkin Audrey Fargo Alice Dudish ~ CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF TEACHERS Judy Girard Ii\ Ida Honoroff lmd! AFL-CIO Bertha Marshall Dahlia Palacio

2412 W. MAGNOLIA BLVD. Pauline Slome BURBANK, CALIF. 91506 Kathleen Sexton (213) 843-8226 Rita Strickland Jack Spiegel RAOUL TEILHET PRESIDENT Kaye Tobin Schlick MollyWex]er Jennie Wyatt William & Carol Kramer David Bidna Victor Magistrale Barbara Nardella Paul Ousted Open 7 days a week

CORRECTION: The cover of this booklet should be - BOYCOTT non-UFW GRAPES & HEAD LETTUCE.

Service, Sales & Parts Look for the Union Label. Used cars & New cars

TIt,-It",,,,oNK fS4!S So. ATL.ANTIC Bt..vD. ae~-~1540 Lo. ANGllI_It•• CA 80022 SOLIDARITY FOREVER

Throughout the course of the United Farm Workers struggle for Union recognition, the United Auto Workers Union has proved

itself a strong long-term ally. When the first strike was barely three months old, in December 1965, Walter P. Reuther, UAW Presi­

dent, went to Delano, California to pledge his Union's support for the fledgling UFW.

Days after assum ing the UAW presidency, Leonard Woodcock showed his commitmentto carryon the Union's fine tradition of

Solidarity with the Farm Workers. President Woodcock joined

Cesar Chavez in a downtown Detroit rally which began the journey of the historic "DELANO FREEDOM BELL". From Detroit, the UAW's

hometown to Delano, the hometown of the UFW.

Since 1972 as Regional Director, I have followed my own dictates as well as the policy of our Union to support the Farm

Worker's struggle wherever it is, and I pledge the continued

support of UAW Region 6 in the future.

LONG LIVE THE UFW!

VIVA LA CAUSA!

JERRY WHIPPLE Director, UAW Region 6 Local 502 Compliments

Air Transport Division of

EI Segundo, Calif. Transport Workers Union of America AFL-CIO William Finn, President

Local 505 UNITED -INVINCIBLE Air Transport Division

Burlingame, California

Ba rney Spera, President

THIS IS NOT A UNION "BU(;" for grapes and head lettuce

THIS IS!

The Los Angeles Union Label Council, AFL-CIO, and its officers and delegates urge all trade union­ ists to boycott grapes and head lettuce which do not bear the UFWA label ... Viva La Causa! THE UNITED RUBBER WORKERS TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO RENEW OUR PLEDGE TO SUPPORT WHOLEHEARTEDLY OUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS OF THE UNITED FARM WORKERS.

MAY THEY SOON HARVEST THE FRUITS OF THEIR TOIL, NOT ONLY IN THE FIELDS, BUT IN THE COURTS AND AT THE BARGAINING TABLE.

MAY THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THEIR UNION BE AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL AND BE THE FOUNDATION FOR EVEN STRONGER UNIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN DEDICATED TO THE PRINCIPLE OF DIGNITY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL WORKING PEOPLE. VIVA LA CAUSA!

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THE UN ION THAT CARES On Behalf Of ILWU, Local %3 We reaffirm our position in support of the UNITED FARM WORKERS and their STRUGGLE!

.VIVA LA HUELGA!

INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN AND WAREHOUSEMEN'S UNION BI Pucd,lo De Los An,eles Luehando Por La Causa

La Quellradita (Manuel and Dolores Soto}

Los Angeles Fire Commissioner JoeSanchez, Jr. Dolores Sanchez

Ms. Grace Montanez Davis Candidate, 13th District· L.A. Council Race

Commissioner Richard Guttlerez 1:1 Puellio de Los Angeles

Commissioner FranJr Munoz Chairman, Housing Authorit~

M.A.P.A.· 56th Assemlll~District

Carlos and Delia Carlla'al (Walter Lawrence InJr}

Los Angeles Cit~ Chicano Commissioner's Caucus ". ..That all men are created equal and are endowed with certain inalienable rights. . .life, libert, and the pursuit of happlness· ...", Lest we forget! Jim Keysor Assemblyman, 39th A.D. ***** ~~Viva La Huelga y el Boicoteo/"

Alfred Whitehead, President

Los Angeles County Firefighter Local 1014.

Cesar Chavez has become the voice of thousands whose fight is everyone's concern. The Farmworkers have become visable, vocal and vital, and their needs deserve attention and action". Congressman James C. Corman 21st Congressional District ***** Mary and Grant Tinker

Lorenzo andHenrietta

P·EACE LOVE AND BROWN RICE X

Peter and Roz Bonerz

Greetings from Mr. and Mrs. Hal E. Tobin

VIVA LA HUELGA! FEUER CORPORA TION

ROBERT WISE PRODUCTIONS Farm Workers receiving treatment in one of the four clinics built and administered by their own union under the RFK Medical Plan. Photo: Bob Fitch.

"Show me a country in which there are no strikes and I'll show you a country where there is no liberty."

...Samuel Gompers LIBERlAD PARA lODOS!

Leo 1. McCarthy Speaker of the Assembly

Mr. Louis S. Garcia Et(E€cutive Director N~theastValley Health Corporation NOSOTROS ESTAMOS FELICIDADES! DEDICADOS A LA CAUSA My prayers and my best wishes for a peaceful solution of this DE LOS CAMPESINOS good cause.

Fr. Amador Lopez, OMI.

Los Angeles-Orange Counties Organizing Committee AFL-CIO

William L. Meyers George E. Smith Chairman Co-Chairman

Larry Tafoya Steve Edney Secretary Treasurer

William L. Gilbert Charles Hogan Director, AFL-CIO AFL-CIO Field Painter's Local 713 Region 6 Representative 3770 San Fernando Rd. and Staff Glendale, Calif. 91204

To a magnificent struggle...

To United Farm Worker Members... from The Doctors and Staff of

The First St. Medical Clinic 2219 E. 1st St. Our pledge ofsupport until Los Angeles, Ca. justice comes to California's corporate acres.

District Lodge 727 International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

Burbank, California Your committment to non-violence shows those who have eyes to see, the power of God's spirit in the world.

Southern California Council of Churches CONGRATULATIONS! TO THE UNITED FARM WORKERS...

Many have made the extreme sacrifice.

They believe in the dignity of man.

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Freedom does not come easy.

-Joe Garcia ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Allan & Dorothy Abrahamse Lawrence Franklin Ron & Loretta Meikle Adrian Dominican Srs. - Detroit Gene Freidman Celia Miranda Ruth Afflack Joe Fuchita Chuck Moore Gary & Mildred Alexander Emma Gallegos Fernando Morales Dolores Alvarez Emma & Louis Garcia Mrs Genevieve Mullen Andy's Lock & Keys Leo A. Garcia Nat. Assembly ofWomen Religious Raul Aragon Mary Garcia Phillip & Phyllis Newman John & Mary Lou Aralleno Walter & Doris Garcia North Redondo Democratic Club Sal Arande Olive Gelerinter Nuevo Sol, Inc. AI & Bea Araujo Dan & Frances Genung Fr. Gerard O'Donnel Nancy Arnold Susan Gershgoran Rev. Chris O'Connor Joan Arnot A. &S.Gillett Patrick & Pamela O'Leary Fay Arond David Gillman Mrs. Claire O'Neill Rudolph & Miriam Ashner Richard Gillman Ray & Yolanda Ochoa Assoc. of Mexican-American Joe & Judy Girard Quentin & Paula Ogren Educators Alice Givens Isaac Pacht in memory of wife, Greg Avila Ernest A. Goldenfeld Rose Christie Balvin Mary Goldman Sigmund & Lorraine Pawlik Phillip Barnett Emery Gordon Jerry & Cathy Peaulman Kirk & Nelda Barrett Dr. & Mrs. Tom Gorman Jean W. Perara Nina & Howard Barsky Ronald & Hedy Greenberg Larry Perkins Patricia Bassler Irma Gremaine Fr. James Pfeffer, M.M. Nettie Baum Alex Gross Walter & Micky Porges Sister Anne Baxter, O.P. Martin L. Guajardo Ernie Powell Bertha Beas James & Dorothea Hakes Sulamith Proctor John & Alice Beck Vivian & Thomas Hall Raymond & Frances Pullara Irene Bennet Patrick & Lee Hancock Manuel & Maria Raskin Alice & Marlin Berg Michele & Andrew Harris Mr. & Mrs. Richard G. Redell Harold & Jean Berlfein Jeanne Haugen Rev. John L. Reid, Jr. John C. & Harriet Blair Don Head Stanley & Miriam Reinhart M/M James Bloomenkrantz Annette & Ken Held Religious of the Sacred Heart M/M Charles Bloomquist Barbara Henderson ofMary Norman Bochner Aaron.& Renee Herman Barbara Reyner Robert H. Bond Maz Hernandez Yolanda & Lester Riley Hank & Teresa Bremer Harry H: 5 hkin Carole Roberts Ruth Brice Dr. & Mrs. Robert Hofland Mauricio Ordaz Rosas, Jr. Anita Brooks Robert & Kathryn Holler Samuel & Sylvia Rosenwein Becky Brooks and June Riave Miriam Horenian Ray Rosillo Robert & Carol Bustamente Rev. Tom & Sara Hubbard Harold & Fevronia Ross Arcelia Cabrera Andy E. Hunsaker Kenneth & Betty Rottger Don Cabrera Helen Hurliman Viki Rudolph Miguel Cancino Marie Louise Ingram John Rukavena Suad Cano Institutio del Pueblo Sister Anne Russell, I.H.M. Albert & Dora Caraco International Book Shop Andrew & Lupe Saavedra R. S. Castrellon Marv & Shirley Irwin Jean & Morris Samuel William E. 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..... UNITED FARM WORKERS ofAMERICA AFL-CIO 1434 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90015· (213) 381-1136 "Each time a man or woman stands up for justice the heavens sing end the world rejoices. Each time a man or women stands up for justice and is struck down the heavens weep and the world mourns. Form workers everywhere are angry and worried but we are not going to fall into the trap that our oppressors have fallen into. We do not need to destroy to win. We ore a movement thot builds ond does not destroy." (Cesar Chavez)

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