Bomb Blast at Forty Acres
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Last Mi nute Bull eti n ~---------------__ BOMB BLAST AT FORTY ACRES DELANO, California -- A bomb blast shook a t the hiring hall, about 100 yards from the riff's -Department and from the Alcohol, To the Forty Acres at 6: 20 p. m. January 17, blowing blast. The explosion also shook the clinic bacco and Firearms Division of the U. S. Trea a three - foot hole in the 18-inch", steel building which is from ISO to 200 yards from sury are investigating the bombing. reinforced adobe walls of the gasoline station the gasoline station. It is agreed that if any Richard Chavez, Director of Union Field there. The blast was so powerful it smashed one had been at the station, death would have Offices, said "We are urging Union members _ one auto into another and blew out windows resulted. not to be alarmed. The investigation into in a neighboring house 100 yards away. It is not yet known who set off the bomb or the bombing is continuing "and we will have "The explosion was so powerful we thought and it is speculated that the bomb was made more details for you in the next issue of the bomb had gone off in our offices," said up of a high-powered dynamite. However EL MALCRIADO:' Union Vice-President Philip Vera Cruz, who was technical experts from the Kern County She- Editorial Last week farm worker women and children together we will do strikes and boycotts, which wrote a new glorious page in the history 'of our are the best schools our children can have." movement. And during the demonstration in Burlingame a Numbering about 500, they went to the very mother ~old her child, who was frightened by heart of the Teamsters union in Burlingame, to the pollce; "You have to take it, dear, some tell its so-called union leaders that farm day you'll have to run the Union and you must workers are not afraid of them and that farm be strong." workers want the United Farm Workers. Women and children, who have endured so much suffering, know that the lives of migrant farm Our sisters in the Union do their workers have been a long march of thousands of part on the frontlines of our struggles because miles of hardships to escape hunger. But they without the liberation of w men, a movement is also know that we still have to march thousands not really a movement. The same is true with of miles more, but this time, to win our rights our children. and our liberation. In its struggle for justice, the +arm worker So there they go, women and children, toge family is indivi ible. The other day, a ther with men, bringing their. enthusiasm and customer in Santa Mar1a was upset becau e farm courage to press onward toward the final worker children were on the picketline. One of victory in a movement in which, as the Mexican the farm workers to1d the r.u stamer: "Our entire saying goes, nthose who are willing can families are force to work in the fields and do more than those who can." To be a farm worker you have to be tough GREETINGS FROM OUR to work in the rain, ARAB BROTHERS to work in the frost. To early in the morning you have to wake up and work 16 hours without overtime. My sisters and brothers will never give up my sisters and brothers . is -time to wake up. Brothers, auto workers, LEITER FROM FLORIDA brothers at the mills, Dep.r Fellow Workers: you cross all the mountains, you cross You wrote tOo me asking if I had lost interest. Photo: Jesus Martinez ,No I haven't, but I appear to be in a section all the hills. of Florida where your members do not work. The folloWing is a message from an Arab Oranges and grapefruit are grown here many an organizer got shot brother who works for Elmco Vineyards in I want to help as much as I can, but I am and got killed the Porterville area:' In behalf of all of my Arab brothers who retired on a pension, am developing according to build this great union are in the photo above, I want to wish all of to an oculist a cataract and so do not drive. for you and for me. We live six miles out of the town of Melbourne. you a prosperous new year, that it may be a better year' for all of us. If there are any people in my area working We also want all to know how happy we are with you please give them my name and phone that Mohsin Saleh Hussen was elected to repre number. I attended the meeting of Concerned sent Arab farm workers in the Terra Bella Democrats last month and met two young men THOl.XJHT FOR THE from the Miami area backing you and wearing NEW YEAR . area. the Black Eagle pin. They may be at tomorrow's We also want to say that we are very happy meeting, also. I would like to have a pin•. (Sent by Richard B. & Jean Tussey) to be members of the United Farm Workers I feel that boyocuing compares with re because we are learning that the Union protects fraining from crossing picket lines. Also, Ten thousand times us and gives us benefits. We are ready to fight .I feel that your efforts at preventing excessive has the labor movement stumbled and defend' our: Union and our greatest desire use lof insecticides and keeping people from and fallen and bruised itself, is that all farm workers organize an become being sprayed with them are beneficial to society and , risen again; members of our Union so that they too may as a whole. been seized by the throat and choked enjoy protection and benefits. I am enclosing five dollars as a contribution. into insensibility; VIVA LA HUELGA, Mansoor YahyaAli Morshed P lease send me two or three copies of the cur enjo~ned by courts, rent issue of your paper. I would also like a assaulted by thugs, list of contributors to the Republican Cam charged by the militia, paign Fund so that I can boycott them also. shot down by regulars, I think it is unlawful for corporations to so traduced by the press, contribute. frowned upon by public opinion. May you all have a happy new year, deceived by politicians, Rose Moore, member of Chicago Teachers' threatened by priests, Union and member of Hyde Park Co-op. repudiated by renegades, West Melbourne, Florida preyed upon by grafters, infested by spies, deserted -by cowards, ANTHEM OF THE betrayed by traitors, bled by leeches, FARM WoRKER and sold out by leaders. by Gabriel L. Valencia But, notwithstanding all this, and all these, I work at the farm ~ t is today the most vital the most of my life and potential power and I sacrifice this planet has ever known, my kids and my wife and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world When I was a kid my from the thralldom of the ages dream was a Union is as certain of ultimate realization but a strong Union, as the setting of the sun. a Union like this --Eugene V. Debs 2 EL MALCRIADO January 26,1973 YEAR OF THE BOYCOTT CELEBRATION CARAVAN Report, photos: Marie Cain Santa Maria, California -- 1\venty five cars carrying United FarmWorker members and sup porters formed a "Caravana de Celebracion" CAR CARAVAN Wednesday (january 3) in the Santa Marra JORDANa'S PICKETED and Arroyo Grande Valleys. On Thursday, january 4, farm workers in Paulino Pacheco, head of the Santa Maria the Imperial Valley staged a car caravan around the Valley to dramatize to their grower neigh Union office rode in the lead car using a loud speaker to tell the people about the recent de bors they are ready to fight for their right cision of the California state Supreme Court to have their own union. upholding the right of the union to picket, boy (More than 65 cars and over 200 flag-waving workers participated in the procession which cott and organize those fields where growers and H~ltville, other unions have made sweetheart deals. made its way from Calexico through The caravan formed at the Santa Maria office Brawley, EI Centro and back to Calexico in the and begC\ll its tour by circling the local Teams late afternoon and early evening. ter office. The cars, each displaying signs ap The spirited caravan passed by the ware plauding the court decision or reflecting the houses of the most notorious scab companies campesinos' opinion of the Teamster Union flew in the area--Bud Antle and D'Arrigo Brothers. bright red and black union flags as they p~ssed through Santa Maria, Guadalupe and the Arroyo Grande Valley. Many persons gave shouts or other signs of I Salinas Valley approval as the caravan passed by. ' "The spirit in Santa Maria is fantastically good. Weare going to win our battle with CHICANO TEACHER FIRED the growers because we have the hearts of the Santa Marra, California -- A special farm workers, " Paulino Pacheco said. worker mass, ending the day's picketing, was celebrated january 7 on the parking lot of jordano's, a local supermarket chain that re fuses to stop selling non-Union lettuce. Starting at 10 a. m. more than 50 farm worker children marched on the picket line with their picket signs and huelga flags, while their parents talked to consumers in attempt to get them.