The official poice of the pnited Farmworkers English I
August 24~1973 Negotiations with Teamsters Broken Peace talks between the The talks held in Burlin- Following the UFW walk - know what they should do to following the Teamsters' United Farm Workers, the gam~ California were set-up out, Fitzsimmons said, "The show good faith." truckers' strike there, but Teamsters and top AFL - CIO after AFL-CIO head Georg", cnntracts in'Delano have been The UnIon has stated it the strike was postponed be officials ended abruptly Au Meany and Teamster 'Presi- repudiated as they were nego will not return to the nego cause of the talks, 'Chavez gust 10 when Cesar' Chavez dent Frank Fitzsimmons con~ tiated by a Teamster negotia tiating table until the Teams said. and Univn chief counsel Jer ducted a series of talks in tor with no authority to do so. ters give Meany "iron-clad" The Delano growers have ry Cohen walked out when they Washington. The signing of They were a direct violation assurances of their good faith. admitted they knew; before learned area supervisor Jim the Delano contracts was a of my instructions:' He said the Teamsters had they signed the secret con Smith of the Teamsters had violation of the partial Einar Mohn, head of the shown they were not willing tracts they were jeopardizing signed contracts with 25 De ..cease-fire...·on which. both Western Conference, of to negotiate in good faith by the peace talks. lano a.rea table grape growers. unions had agreed. Teamsters reportedly has their "tricks". the UFW John GUi&marra, Jr., one sent Chavez a telegram say- says it has kept its word and of the 'largest grape growers, BULLETIN Cesar Chavez told suppor- ing he hoped Chavez would re stuck to the agreements for reported the growers are The Delano office of the ters in Visalia he .deplored turn to the bargaining table, the talks. The Union 1 had ~'delighted" with the Team Teamsters was closed down the signing. "We're tired of 'but Chavez said August 12 he planned to call a lettuce ster contracts and have no and Jim Smith, a veteran of these tricks," he said. The had not seen the telegram. strike in the Salinas Valley intention of giving them up. 25 years, has been suspended farm worker leader added At a Delano press .~onfe- from his job, the Bakersfield that the Teamsters' contracts rence the previous day, he Californian reported. smith with Gallo and Franzia wine- said "We need some proofor has bee replaced as areasu ries were also violations to guarantee," before talks re- pervisor by Cono Macias. the "cease-fire:' sume, "they : August 24,1973 EL MALCRU,DO 3 Agbayani Vinag.e • • • Ret irem ent with resp ect By Philip VeraCruz All agreed that retired of social leeches who never homeless farmworkers need planted one seed in the soil. " We have to help the the village project. However The money collected in the strikers because they are the issues raised were: How first few months of the grape our brothers and sisters. and when? The idea had been contracts is being used to fi= They are fighting for higher. in a talking stage since the nance the quarter of a mil wages and our rights," said , AWOC-NFWA merger in Au lion dollar housing project. Paulo Agbayani in Jack Rad gust 1966. Oldmencould not Some additional funds must ovich's Labor Camp #2 in wait. Others had already be raised to cover the shor Richgrove, eight milies from gone before the first line was tage. explosive Delano. So, he drawn on the plan. Like a pen Spokesmen of the city of walked out of his job and dUluin, arguments pro and Delano were against our aP'"' joined the Delano Grape' con kept emotions swinging plication for the building Strike, decided in a mass back and forth --- from hope permit. Their main objec meeting by the Filipino work to despair and vice-versa. tton was. i'too close to the ers on September 8, 1965, in , As workers they only under -dump.If They suggested that the Filipino Community Hall stood and believed what they it should be within the city. at 1457. Glenwood Street could see, I had to face oc The Kern County Planning Co~ Paulo's Conscience could casional temperamentalout- mmission asked if they could not let him work in the vine 'bursts from original str give the union some land in yards, hiding and scabbing ikers: " The village idea is the city. The anSwer was while his fellow-workers just a tool to keep and fool Iino" , and later the commis-=' were picketing and sacrif people in the union." This sioners voted unanimously in icing for better workingcon destructive remark was in our favor. ditions and higher wages. He pired by opportunists whose Ramona Holguin was as- faithfully performed his as main business was to mis signed in the Agbayani Re signment until he fell down lead and to cheat senior ci tirement Village Department. and died in the Perelli-Min tizens of their money. Vil She engaged Luis Petia as the netti picketline. lage meetings were very architect and coordinated As a' 'worker in Hawaii boring because there was no volunteer labor with the as s istance of young men who and then in California, thing to report. But now, la~ much of the doubt, like a had previously worked for Paulo's only home was a the Self-Help Housing Pro bor camp. Thousands of Fi heavy fog, has been clearing lipino 'immigrants to the up. ject. The work force includes United States between 1920 At the northeast corner of both sexes. Women are tak- , and 1930 were vi~tims of the the Forty Acres, the same i ing as much responsibility anti-miscegination law and dea has been in the process as their counterparts. Geo remained single. Like Paulo of realization. The 59-unit rge Salinas, a licensed con they have no houses nor chil building is beingconstructed tractor. volunteers his ser dren to take care of them. through collective planning. vices and supervises the bui They are now being discard Workers' are taught how and lding construction. ed in labor camps and have 'why they do things. They no place to go. Housing is a learn that only their labor Asian groups (mostly Fil need and a problem. Growers' makes the building. It can= ipinos) with their friends not be built by just a mere from Los Angeles and profits have cut severelyin wish but by hard work. the Bay Area have been com to their starvation wages so In the first table grape ing to help. Sometimes indiv that the paralyzing effects of contract, Lionel Steinberg in iduals visit and decide to be having little money atretire-'" Coachella agreed to give two ~ ~r...~_...,.o;-ci&-.L,.' ~ Huerta walks out Examination offe r altered FRESNO, California - learned that there was to be The staff of the Rodrigo paying: Dolores Huerta, Union Vice~ only one representative of Terrones Memorial Clinic $1,00 to see the doctor President walked out on the Union--herself. She re wishes to inform you that $1.00 for lab test what appeared was going to fused to go on without farm as none of the Delano area $1.00 for x-rays be ',a one-sided debate 'In worker representation. growers will be paying in $1.00 for medicine Channel 30 TV in Fresno' Her argument: the Nisei to the Kennedy Plan until Strikers who do not have August 7. farmer had been 'breaking the contracts are signed, Kennedy Plan hours will be Her opponents were a the strike at White' j River the clinic will need some fi asked to pay: member of the Nisei Far Ranch in Poplar, and :was nancial assistance to keep $3.00 for doctorandmedi mers representing the com publicaly anti~Union, :the operating. lip until now we cine munity, a representative of Sheriff's department had no have been able to treatstrik_ $1.00 for lab tests the Teamsters Union ,and record of beating up Team ers free. However, we are $1.00 for x-rays Sheriff Willmirth, repre s ters as they had for farm asking you to help us by vrVA LA HUELGA. senting his department. and workers. The only valid op moderator Roger Rocca, ponent was the Teamster. Channel 30's commentator. The "deb'l.te" went on When she arrived lshe ""ithout her. 4 FL MALe IADO August 24, 1973 Illega I aliens - million dollar import business Ten men died as a flat of illegal migrants, it is the· doctor without the forms he bed truck, carrying 47 Me U. S. farm workers arrl was given a clean bill of xican farm workers who had striking workers who are the health even though he was entered the country illegally losers when they a re used as still sick and had been spit- crashed in Southeastern cheap labor or strike: ting up blood. He was Missouri last month. The breakers. taken back to the fields, but driver, Octavio Ortiz-Alva "The illegals practically when the foreman and con rez, 39, of Orange Grove, take the bread from our tractor found he couldn't Texas, has been charged by mouths since it is they who work he was abandoned. a feder,al grand jury are working and we are with He said he had met some with 12 counts of unlawful out work." The words come Union workers who had taken ly transporting aliensinto the from a letter addressed to care of him and taken him United States. PreSident Nixon, dated July to another doctor.Theywere The tragedy is only one 22. The writer is a middle helping to see that he was page in the story of the aged - farm worker, taken care of and were trying hundreds of illegals im detected or quickly return a ,southern Fresno County to help him rejoin his family ported annually by con after being deported. resident for 18 years, the had been abandoned by his in Mexico. tractors, growers and other The Union has continually father of four children. The contractor when he was in Juan said he wouldn't work .opportunists who wade in the charged growers and con article about the letter was jured in an orchard. as a strikebreaker again. cheap labor pool of Mexico. tractors with using illegals first printed in the Fresno He said he had borrowed Then he said, "I must find Immigration Service offi~ as strikebreakers but have Bee. 5000 pesos (about $400) work," myfamily is starving cials say they are under received little response For the Union workers the before he left Guadalajara. in Mexico." manned and are doing every from theBorder Patrol, even problems are even more Mexico. He traveled to Ti:' "We are not against the thing possible to curb this when they point out fields con:plex. ~llegal~ mak~ ideal juana where he contacted a illegals," said the letter~ full of illegals, Union offi- strikebreakers 'for the "coyote" ( a person who writer mentioned above. cials say. , growers whose regular work smuggles workers across "They are Mexicans too, but "It is :incomprehensible force is on the picket lines. the border for a price). He they are taking our jobs. me to see the attitude of As the union workers go out paid the "coyote" $250 and They will work for less, so Immigration Service of on strike to gain protections was led across the border·, our pay is less when we find ficials in pretending to their of contracts, they are re with a group of other men. work." job in urban areas~-violating placed by uncomplaining il- After walking an hour they The letter ends: "Believe in many instances the rights were picked up by a truck me, sincerely, that I would of Americancitizens and at , and driven to Tulare, Ca have never wanted to cause the same time ignoring the lifornia where Juan spent ,you even the slightest illegal migrant workers eight days before he con problem, but it's just that here in the fields. It seems tacted labor contractor Jose this is no longer tolerable." . apparent that their attitude E scovedo from Woodlake, is pro-grower andnotforthe California. Soon he was rights of field workers," working for "Giannini Ranch" U. S. Congressman Edward along with at least ,16 other flow;' growers deny they are Roybal said on a trip to the illegals. knowingly hiring illegals; Delano Area August 6. Everything went well un and legislators say the Ro- Perhaps E.V. Richard, til he fell from a 12-foot dini Bill will solve the pro- Rural Manpower Service ladder and hurt his side and blem-- yet the use, and field representative, sum his wrist. He was taken misuse of illegals as strike~ med up his agency's attitude to Dr. Gerald R. Paul in breakers and cheap labor, when asked how much of the Dinuba. He was treated and continue to disrupt the in- state's farm laborers were legals the even told to return in two days. dustry. illegal, "We have no way of deeper poverty of Mexico. When he returned and told The 400,000 illegals ap-~ knowing. No one knoW3. "Mexico is so poor, it is the doctor he wasn't feeling prehended annually are One Mexican 'looks like-a choice of breaking the better, he was given some ~osting the federal govern, another. We ask them if s trike here or stealing insurance forms to fill out. rnent an estimated 45 to 50 they are citizens and if they there," an illegal identified When he showed the forms million dollars. but they are say yes, we let it go at that.' only as Juan said. The to Escovedo, the contractor only the tip of the iceberg So while the governmental illegal strikebreake~ agreed told him, "You're illegal as officials generally agree agencies are either unable or to an intervIew with EL and have no rights." most illegals either go un- unWilling to <:.:urb the flow MALCRIADU after he When he returned to the Bad bills never die Sen. George Zenovich ' s mittees, including le farm labor bill, once-killed, gislation drafted by John F. is back to haunt the Union. Henning, secretary treasu August 7, the California rer of the California AFL Senate voted 30 to 1 to allow CIO, calling for secretballot -reconsideration of theZeno elections. A bill presented vich bill by the Industrial by Assemblyman Bob Wood Strikers denied food stamps Relations Committee. This (R-Greenfield), billAB 2304, bill, strongly opposed by the focuses also on the question farm workers and defeated of secret ballot, but with by one vote June 28. would anti-Union clauses. Also AllOWing hungry strikers unless the families of strik how subside." Ifprices drop require 60 days notice before a Reagan administra- to obtain food stamps "pro~ ers felt hunger pains, "we below levels "fixed" by the an agricultural strike could tion-sponsored measure longs strikes, and prolonged destroy the economic func administration, Uncle Sam be called. introduced by Sen. Fred W. strikes mean higher wages tion of the collective will pay the difference to the A number of other bills Marler, (R-Redding), is also at settlement, and eventually bargaining system and in this growers. are also'before Senate Com- making committee rounds. higher prices." way we throw our system out For the blind and , the Steeped in Nixonian think~ of whack." disabled, the bill provides ing, Alabama Republican partial restoration -of food William L. Dickinson To keep the system stamps; for strikers, it re Attention RFK members attempted to tack a clause running smoothly, however, moves the restrictions. Also denying food stamps to the new farm legislation pro included is a pr9vision for Now that the contracts have Salinas Valley --Salinas strikers and their families vides subsidy payments to semiannual adjustment of expired you can still extend Fresno Area --Sanger on to a major piece' of farm farmers up to $20,000 a year, coupon allotments in $2 in , your category. All those who Kern & Tulare Areas-Delano legislation that came before plus subsidies paid NOT to crements according to are now elegible for the High NOTE: The clinics arc the 'Congress last week. After grow products have no limits changes in food prices. Category should contact their only offices qualified to give extended debate, the House placed on them whatsoever. Another clause, tacked on nearest local clinic, if they you the correct information and the Senate agreed on a Agricultural Secretary to the farm bill to balance wish to continue at that level. Any problems that have not compromise farm bill which Earl L. Butz has reassured the concessions to the poor, All those who are now ele- been resolved at your local balanced limited con growers that the new system bans aid to North Vietnam gible for the Low Category clinics can be handled by cessions to the worker, the set up by this bill means the through the Food for Peace can also extend their med- the Central Office. Write to: poor and the disabled against government "will share the Program unless Congress ical benefits. P.O. Box 47, Keene,'Ca.93531 increased profits for the risk that farmers run•...if passes special legislation. The following clinics can or call tel. '805) 822-5571. growers. we overproduce.... or ifdo Nixon signed the farm bill give you more information: Thank You.' According to Dickinson, mestic demand should some- into law August 10. Imperial Valley ~-Calexico Maria Magana-Director August 24, 1973' EL MALCRIADO 5 BOYCOTT LETTUCE BOYCOTT GRAPES Endorsements Massachusetts State MORE SUPPORT FROM United Papermaker: and Legislature ERIE --. fiPENNSYLVANIA: Paperworkers Local 7lY Governor's Commi ttee on ' United Auto Workers Hispanic Society Migrant Affairs,Ohio Lo~al 832 Catholic Migrant Ministry, Saskatchewan Federation of Ene County Central Labor Erie Diocese Labour,Canadian Labour Council Santa Clara County Council Congress International Association of of Churches, Board -of Dir= Communications workers Machinists and Aeropace ectors. of America (550.000mem~ workers Archbiship James V. Casey bel'S and~$50,000) United Steelworkers of A- Denver, Colorado Michigan State AFL~CIO merica Locals 6443 and 1794 Conference of Mayor Super- American Federation of International Union ofElec= iors of Men (CMSM). Teachers . (4¢ per memo trical Workers Locals 621 Bishop John A. Donovan, Di- bel' per month, for 3 months.) !ind 6~8 ocese of Toledo, Ohio . IHM Sisters of Monroe, Board of Rabbis, Interfaith California Federation of Michigan Committee to Aid Farm Teachers East Ohio Conference of Workers. Central Labor Council of the United Methodist Church Five Acres, The Boys' and Alameda County,AFL-CIO Sisters of Mercy,Erie and Girls' Aid Society of LOS Committee of Connecticut Crawford Counties' Angeles Religious Leaders for Farm Sisters of St.Joseph National Federation of Cath= Workers Rights Sister Catherine Manning, olic Seminarians. Office of' Urban Affairs, ssj; President, Sisters Synagogue Council of Archdiocese of Hartland, Council of Erie America Conn. AIM has conventi·on No longer will it be "open gathered- afWhiteOaks,-70 season on all Indians who' miles northeast of Tulsa,O will stand and fight oppres klahoma. In addition to re~ sive justice" .declared solutions supporting politi Dwain Camp, state coordina cal prisoners, demanding t0r of the American Indian jt,lstice in the settlement of Movement (AIM) at the close of a national convention Au treaty rights and land so gust 6. vereignty, the AIM conven About 3000 American In= tion also gave support to dians, representing 25 states the UFW's boycott of Safe . and more than 100 chapters, way stores on lettuce. / f~RM WORKERS o SlRIKE Union supporters picket in Morton Grove, Ill., July 28. 6 August 24_, 1973 ,.. BOYCOTT SAFEWAY BOYCOTT A&P The people vs. Safeway An ultimatum has been Infantil de la Raza. the Co handed over to Safeway su mite Popular. students from permarket manalrers in Oak Merritt College. the Oakland land; ..Stop purchasing. dis Branch of the American Fe playing and selling lettuce deration of Teachers and the and grapes that are other Black Panther Party. than UFW produced or face Leaflets handed out an- a boycott." nounced support from thP. CFT.OPEU 29. and AFSCME Delivered personally July 1695. in the form of regular' 6 by Elaine Brown and Bobby' financial contributions plus Seale for the Black Panther the organization of rank and Party. the ultimatum file supportcommittees. Al launched an all-out boycott so more support came from against six Oakland Safeway the Committee of Concerned stores "on a scale unpre Teamsters who got pro=UFW cendented in California ." resolutions passed in Team According to an editorial in ster Local #853 (warehouse the July 14th issue of the men) and in Branches 1 and 6 Black Panther Party paper. Local #896 (bottlers). this boycott reflects "the As one picketer. Virginia determination of the Black Reed commented "We're Panther Party to demons fighting for the survival of trate our support for and the people. Weare trying solidarity with the struggle to show support for the farm of the predominantly MeXi workers. The Teamsters, can-American farm workers Safeway, and the govern= of California." ment --the system. they are The boycott began July 20 all one and are trying to in front of the 27th and West destroy the Union. I'm Me Streets stores. Demonstra xican-American. I'm poor. tions took place throughout I've got to get out there and Oakland with 200 people mar= help the people." ching with "Boycott Safe Father William O'Donnell . way" signs. pastor of a Catholic Church The march, rally and all in Berkeley. also on the lines, day picketing was organized reported "One Catholic came by the Strike Support Com up to me and said he was 1,000 March mittee for the Farm Workers 'horrified' ,that I was here and UFW officia'ls. Support and I explained to him. that • on the lines came from La I was 'horrified' he would In Bay area Raza Educators. the Centro shop at Safeway••••" Calfornia -- Over a thousand Safeway's doors that day. farm worker supporters Area organizers also Cleveland boycotts marched in the Bay Area report members of the Long July 28 demanding that Safe shoremen's Union have taken way Stores carry only UFW charge of picketing a Safeway lettuce and grapes. Store each Saturday. and Fis her- Fazi0 Representatives from the three chain stores in the area State County and Municipal have stopped carrying The Cleveland boycott has ferred the complaint to the Employees. ,Teacliet:s, grapes altogether. challenged the city's largest State Consumer Affairs Di Boilermakers, Department: chain store. Fisher~Fazio. vision of the Ohio Commerce Store Clerks, Trans (Information; DanSudran and On July 16 a complaintwas Department. portation. Typographical People's World) filed with the Cleveland Of On July 21, a rally and and many other unions joined fice of Consumer Affair~' a picketline were organized the march which began with gainst Fisher-Fazio for try in front of one of the biggest a rally at Dolores Park. Denver on ing to sell scab grapes iand Fisher-Fazio stores in Feliciano Urrutia. a Gallo lettuce under thp Wings of Cleveland, to demand an end striker from Livingston the march the Aztec Eagle to the fraudulent use of the and Manuel Hernandez. An alert UFW staffer Nan Union label and a commit- a Bruce Church striker frOID By Elaine Graves cy Hickey. discovered 0 one ment to handle only UFW Salinas spoke at the rally the Mel Finerman workers of the Fisher,Fazio chains lettuce and grapes. Accord about their respective DENVER. Colorado -- Co negotiating committee.asked displaying the Union label o~ ing to a company spokesper strikes and asked for rein lorado United Farm Worker for help in boycotting ver scab products. Pictures son, Fisher-Fazio . doesn't forced boycott support. Fr. supporters and volunteers Finerman lettuce and support were taken, and, supporters' take sides, buys grapes and Eugene Boyle of the Inter joined 20 Mel Finerman for the striking farm gathered around to be wit lettuce from the Teamsters Faith Committee to Support strikers from Center, Co workers. nesses for the complaint and non-Union fields as well the Farm Workers. who also lorado in a solidarity rally. David Fishlow. a former lodged by UFW Ohio Boy UFW. Fisher-Fazio claims' spoke, termed the Teamster march and fiesta July 28. EL MALCRIADO editor, cott Director Eliseo Medina. that the complaint is unfair contracts, "one of the dir Richard Longoria ,Denver currently working with the The Cleveland Office has re- and unjust. tiest acts of union busting Boycott Director. introduced American Civil Liberties in the history of our coun.. the strikers during a rally Union (ACLlJ). announced the try." at Our Lady of Guadalupe ACLU will represent the El Teatro de los Topos Church. Union during a hearing portrayed the struggle in the Over 200 persons heard August 6 in Denver regarding Dh io Res ignat ion fields and the crowd began a the strikers describe the the UFW organizers' rights l4-block march to the 30th United Farm Workers strike to enter the San Luis Valley and Mission Street Safeway against lettuce grower Mel labor camps to talk to the An Ohio grower, John J. lections so that farm work, store. Finerman in the San Luis Val workers. The decision of ers can decide who they There, a massive pic ley, Colorado. the court will be announced Burma, resigned from the Governor's Commission on want to represent them. . ketline was set up which was Lettuce striker Elias Ro later this month after the Burma, a grower of leaf greeted with cheers from the driguez reported, "When the Court studies attorney's Migrant Affairs after the Commission endorsed the lettuce from Hartville, Ohio, largely Chicano neigh Teamster organizers came written arguments. s aid that as a grower he borhood. Five other Safe into the fields to sign upnew Members of the United grape and lettuce boycotts. The Commission members could not boycott lettuce. way stores in the Bay Area members, the workers j exican American Students Well. maybe you can't were virtually shut down in walked out in protestbecause (UMAS) organization in are sending telegrams to California grape '?;rowers John, but there are millions the same manner and boy they want the United Farm Boulder presented over $300 of other American~who can urging them to ho•..J free e' cott organizers report 1,360 Workers ." which they had collected for and do. Si, se puede. customers turned awayfrom Jose Garcia, a member of the strikers. August 24,1973 EL r,1ALCR IADO 7 • Cesar Chavez: "We cannot see the justice of the injunctions' , Hundreds Of people from, one every 100 feet. in opposition to the injunc more people joined the non-violence advocate and protest songsJefore the pro ding the strikers were set When Bishop Sidney Mathew all walks of life traveled "We cannot see the justice tions. ' 'Until we arouse strike lines, the Fresno she- Daniel Ellsberg, who was grower demorstrators began free. Metzger of El Paso (a strong to the San joaquin Valley of the injunctions," Cesar public opinion and possibly riff's department stopped recentlyaquitted in ~ePen= singing '.'God Bless On August 10, Fresno supporter of the Farah strike to stand , and often to be Chavez, director of the Uni jail 10,000 or more and make making arrests because, tagon Papers trial. joined America". Vhen the Union County Superior Court judge there) visited Fresno he said . arrested, with striking grape ted Farm Workers said. "If the county officials look in "picketers did not pose a farm workers, nuns, priests, supporters pined in they Denver C. Peckinpah re masses 'at the county jail, pickers who have been sub~ we were a mob committing ward and realize their grave threat of violence." ,about 50 members of-the War stopped singilg. "Itwas like versed a municipal court juvenile hall and the indus~ jected to grave injustices violence it might be justi and unjust error." When supporters came to Resisters' League and other they had fOrgotten the decision and said he would trial farms. on the picketlines, in the jails fiable, but we are not." Dorothy Day, editor of the be arrested and were not supporters in mass picketing words," Ms. Baez said. begin reviewing the cases At the mass in the countY and in the courtrooms. He accused the courts of Catholic Worker and leader obliged, some--Sister Diana, to protest the injunctions. Union attorney Ellen Lake individually on Monday, Au jail, this reporter attended The supporters joined the granting the injunctions to of the Catholic Worker Move Sister Clarita, Sister Lucille Although the 300 Union is attemptin to getthe more gust 13. Ms. Lake termed as an aid to the bishop. There StriKers in their protests appease the growers and at ment, and Fr. Eugene Boyle, Ma~tinez of Las Hermanas, supporters were not ar than 450 piclets released on Peckinpah's decision as "a the prisoners were in good against police brutality in the tempting to destroy the UFW. of the Interfaith Committee Sister Concepcion Longoria, rested they were confronted their own recognizance in wonderful victory that shows spirits and hungry for news Fresno jail and on Kern and Chavez made the remarks to Support the Farm Sister Maria Tapia and Bro by a counter demonstration judge jame_ V. Paige's mu pe'ople must be presumed about the strikes. The men Tulare county picket lines. on the Fresno jail steps Workers, were among the ther john William began of about 50 growers', fami nicipal CoUr:1. innocent and not held on a stumbled through the hymns, They also were challenging where he was joined by state first to be arrested with a fast and vigil in solidarity lies and friends who stood Some of the priests and presumption of guilt." . applauded the sermons and the constitutionality of the Sen. George Masconi, a gu the Union strikers. with those fasting inside inside the orchard waving nuns were 04tl tlu /Wor ld htu learntd t1Jf<~ht /Vw!lfnt0J, but®ly aftw d!ffU'uitwP.f!Jj/~rnon'/lnol#U:e DOROTHY DAY,7S,: Editor of hlW'e mut,Jttreti the .tTJu /mm/ the CATHOLIGWORKER. and longtime crusader for the ~l0'Mnt rights of the poor,came to 'Vtolmt of tJu!a,mnworws u tJulJ1Wst Vm}!OYtMlt Fresno County where she was arrested with Union stri to~ ~~tr~ect kers for violating the injun nuwtmmt'lln thtiworUt ••• tluiWorld hM ctions. She spent over two weeks in the county's Indus fr': ':Yo;u whmyousta/rbdfimm ifdo i}1j)tiYtt'U,1'"1J1; W sf1rJ!i'dttJ trial Farm. JOAN BAEZ BISHOP SIDNEY MATHEW oj/VtoUnct. METZGER: " just because laws are on the books- this does not mean they are just laws," The bishopcom mended the strikers and their supporters in the Fres no jail for the peaceful man ner in which they have pro tested the "injustice" of the injunctions. ' 'Blessed are the peace makers,for they shall be called the children of God," o ...o Bo ..c:: ..c:: c.. c...... 0...."- '._ JOAN BAEZ DANlEL ELSBERG: "I'm U. S. CoNGRESSMAN here to pay a greatdebt to Ce EDWARD ROYBAL: An sar Chavez and the United overt demostration of power. Farm Workers.... you i:hey're~ using PO~Qlot for 'CALIFORNIA SENATOR have taught me much about the purpose ofkeeping-peace. GEORGE MASCONE:" I'm non-violence. Five years but it was obvious to me prepared to go jail if I am ago, I turned to Robert Ken that they were there for arrested excercising what I nedy, the man I hoped could the purpose of pushing peo see as my constitutional save the world~-when I lost ple around. " The congres rights." He compared Fres that leader, I turned and read sman made these remarks no County to the South of about Cesar Chavez and the after a picketline he was on the mid~1960's where "in non-violent struggle of the in Tulare county was paid justice was accorded peo farm workers. It was a special visit by the Tu ple in Mississippi because through their example that lare Sheriff's Tac-squad. the color of their skin was I reached a decision you black and not white," cannot lie about war • 8 EL MALCRIADO Auaust 24, 1973 August 24,1973 EL MALCRIADO 9 ( Labor news J UAW ·f ace s battie UAW leaders are pre- not to take disciplinary ac paring to negotiate new con tion against the two workers. tracts in the auto industry A petition with over 200 Political prisoner before the old ones run out signatures demanding the between mid-September and firing of that supervisor had October., Although the big ,been ignored previously by sues Government three--Ford , GM and Chrys Chrysler. ler--report record highs in Results in recent union BUFFALO, New York (LNS) charged with selling heroin. guards assaulted him. He profits, they have managed elections have also bee~ im --Martin Sostre, the 50-year The witness against him. has been charged with to keep wages down, a m WASHINGTON, D.C. (LNS) I Two months later, the in Knight said, "1 was required Secretary of Defense vasion of Cambodiaofficially to wait until daylight and James R. Schlesinger ack expanded _the American war then go outside and burn nowledged Julv 16, that A into Cambodia and secrecy it." merican B-52-s "secretly" about future'raids was un In a letter to Se- bombed targets in Cambodia necessary. nator Stuart Symington, ac in 1969 up until the U. S. At issue now is the co ting chairman of the Senate invasion May , 1970. La ver-up of the raids. Not only Investigating Committee, ter in the week, the New did the bombing runs go un Defense Secretary Schlesin York Times gave the Pen reported, but official mili ger defended the raids, say tagon's own statistics: 3630 tary papers documenting the ing they were ..fully raids and more than 100,000 raids were destroyed and re authorized" and necessary tons of bombs during the placed with falsified reports. for the protection of fourteen months preceding Nixon has admitted that American servicemen. the invasion. he authorized the raids, but The- Senate Armed Ser no one in the White House yices Committee is currently or the Pentagon is willing investigating' these un to take the responsibility announced raids, most of for the phony documents. which took place while the Former Air Force Major official American policy on Hal M. Knight, who revealed Cambodia was to honor that the "secret" bombing, tes country's position of neu tified in front of the Senate ~ trality in the Vietnam war. Committee concerning his e.:¥ In Cambodia the raids were own role in carrying out and The bombing was kept se no secret. Cambodian Prince covering up the B-52 raids. ·Cret "because of the sensi Norodom Sihanouk had pro Knight s aid that the hand tive operational and di tested the American bomb delivered orders always plomatic situation... to in ing throughout the fall and came earlyin the evening and Sure the opeations would not winter of 1969, and has re the raids were flown atnight be compromised." vealed recently thatbombing "because there wouldn't be Major Knight was more raids date back to 1963. anybody flying around to no specific. In his testimony Sihanouk was deposed in tice that the bombs landed he said that a superior offi March of 1970 by General in Cambodia and not in South cer told him to keep the Lon Nol, whose American Vietnam as indicated later knowle,dge of the raids from allegiance was strong, and in falsified reports. OJ the Senate Foreign Relations the secret raids continued After each raid, false re Committee, and especially with no objections from the ports were prepared and from committee chairman III/liAr/VAS So .2Cr~r~6oV1~.k:...lf'f new government in Phnom sent to Saigon. ..As for the ].W. FUlbright, an outspoken £I,~ 64IHPI!!j'J.. ...7" Penh. actual target material," critic of the war. 'Error' kills hundreds As the August 15 deadline mistakes in one week, the to destroy the Royal Govern exican farm workers on U.S. bombing in Cam worst occurred August 6 ment of National Union led bodia approaches, the U.S. when a B-52 mistakenly by Cambodian head of state military effort there has bombed a Cambodian Naval Norodom Sihanouk, which seize land been intensified. base killing 137 persons and now governs 90% of Cambo Bombing of the capital area wounding 268. Less than dia's territory. EL MALCRIADO recently re gion and land-holding around Phnom Penh in Cam 24' hours after this inciden~, When questioned about re received information about patterns in that area. , bodia has reached an U.S. F-lll planes dropped lations with the U.S. support the development of farm In Carrizo Valley, for e all-·time high. A Pentagon bombs on a village six miles ed Lon Nol group, Sihanouk worker and small farmer xample, the problem is a spokesman said the number from the naval base. said, "This or that solu struggles in Sinaloa, Mexico. general one, although one of of B-52 missions rose from tion of the Cambodian ques nu~ During the last two years the most serious problems 40 to 50 per day and the AUGUST 15 DEADLINE tion, which the U. S. and cer there has been a continual has been centralized on the ber of tactical fighter tain West and East Euro increase in the number of Collective Farm "Venustiano bomber missions was higher Intensification of bombing pean powers want to "offer" land seizures, and the mili Carranza" where 176 far than the 200-a-day average has been the U. S. govern the Khmer (Cambodian) tancy among small farmers mers have been demanding of recent weeks. ment's method of preparing people like a poisoned plate and farm workers has been additional and since 1958. The for the August 15 halt forced is absolutely unacceptable." on the rise. Thoughout Me legal order itself wasn't HUNDREDS KILLED IN BOM by the Congress on the Pre- xico these kinds of actions carried out until 1969, but BING ERRORS sident. The massive have given a push in the even this has not been ade The increased attacks campaign around Phnom growing move toward unioni quate because the person have been marked by three Penh is a last ditch effort zation among workers, farm in charge of land distribu workers and students. The tion from the Department so-called energy crisis in unions that are forming of Agrarian Affairs has spent Gulf Oil the United States. The crisis Moncada share many ideas and beliefs his time selling the land is not measured by a lack which have been expressed earmarked for the farmers. Boy cott of resources but rather by More than 27,000 people for years by agrarian re Today these farm workers the loss of the cheapest gatheredat the historic Mon form movements, that the have recognized the Sources of supply by the cada fortress in EasternCu present pattern of land necessity of defending them A boycott of the Gulf Oil major oil companies. The ba to celebrate the twentieth ownership and system ofdis selves and are organized in Corporation has been called amount of crude oil in the aniversary of the assault led tribution strengthen the al direct opposition to the large by the Gulf BoycottCoalition, world, the amount of availa~ by Fidel Castro on July 26, ready oppressive system landholders and their pratesting Gulf's support of ble oil sources in the Uni 1953. That action began ,which makes large land- representatives who use any the war against the people ted States, is adequate to the fight which culminated owners and growers the sole means available to them to of Angola. meet actual and future needs. in 1959 in the overthrow of beneficiaries in agricultural push the farm workers off Since 1961 Angola has been This crisis is the creation the dictator Fulgenico Batis production. what land they do hold col fighting for independence of a million-dollar pro ta. Land seizures have been lectively. from, Portugal. Angola's motional campaign by com P araiiel celebrations the farm laborers' answer to These representatives right to freedom has been panies such as Gulf to con were organized in the United this system, and support has have tried to put off the pro endorsed and supported by vince the public that a real States also, the largest come from workers and stu tests by declaring: "We will the United Nations as well shortage does exist. taking place in New York dents who are becoming in give you a few acres and then as the United States. In this manner Gulf where more than a thou creasingly aware 01 the fact see if we canarrangeto give Nonetheless, the Gulf Oil attempts to justify its s and people attended that their own oppressive you any more." But the Corporation supports Portu support of Portugal in the sessions despite efforts by situations are not any dif farm workers themselves gal's war against Angola fi war against the 5.2 million reactionary Cuban exiles to ferent. have answered that "we don't nancially with annual pay Angolan people. close down the Exposition believe in saints who are al Information about the boy Lands Invaded. ments of over $50,000,000 by bombing the 1199 Drug ways out to lunch." They per year for oil rights in cott can be obtained bywrit and Hospital Workers Union Land seizures have occur don't plan to stop now the that colony. ing Gulf Boycott Coalition, Building where the eventtook red under different circum~ struggle they started back When its policy is ques Box 123 D. V. Sta., Dayton, place. The bomb caused stance::: depending on the in 1958. tioned, Gulf points to the Ohio, 45406. over $3 million in damages. August 24,1973 EL MALCRIADO 11 Injunction challenge August 3,1973 We believe that the current Fr. James Hagan, San Fran Sr. Mary Mardell, Pro- strike, including the beatings. cisco Archdiocese vincial ofSacred HeartSrs., Quentin Reynolds could have been prevented Fr. Patrick Hurley, Oregon San Francisco Chairman of the Board had Safeway, the largest Mr. Robert Lebel, S.J. New Sr. Karen Gowser, Portland Safeway Stores, Inc. chain store in the country, England Sr. Rita Ann Houlihan lifted even a little finger Fr. Joseph LeBran, S.]., New York to help. We believe that New England Sr. Carol Frances Jegen, Safeway must continue ro Fr. Patrick Lee, S. J. , Chicago Dear Mr. Reynolds: bear a major sha:- e 0 f tre Oregon Sr. K.C. Young, Los Angeles pain and suffer.ing enduredby Fr. Ralph Loona, SOB, Los Sr. Timothy Gatto, San It has happened again. Those so many of the farm workers Angeles Francisco with power and influence in today. Fr. Frank Oppenheim, S.J. Sr. Judith Best, St. Louis our society have failed to Chicago Sr. Carol Naumann, San exercise thei corporate Fr. Juan Romero, PADRES Francisco moral responsibility to as . We religious persons plead The Rev. David Schilling, Me Sr. Mary Ellen Caldwell, Du sist the most oppressed peo with you to activate your cor... thodist, Milpitas, Calif. buque ple of our society, the farm porate moral conscience and Fr. Richard Smith, S.]. Sr. Elizabeth Pleas, Dubuque workers, achieve their just use your well- known power Oregon Sr. Marilyn Schaefer. San rights. and influence to alter the Fr. William Spine, S. J. Francisco destructive course of pre Chicago Sr. Rose Cirillo, Stockton For this reason, we the un sent events. Mr. William Sullivan, S.J., Sr. Joyce Higgins, Stockton dersi'gned religious people, California Sr. Sandra Anderson, have chosen to join our Mr. Garry Uhlenkict, S.]. Tacoma, Washington struggling farm worker bro-. Oregon Sr. Elizabeth Barber, Pasa thers and sisters in their Fr. Eugene Toland, Mary dena challenge of an injunction knoll, New York Sr. Katharine Box; Pasadena which is clearly a grave· Signatories: Fr. Carl Voelker, S.J. Sr. Alice Callaghan, Pasa infringement of their cons- Wisconsin dena titutional rights of free· Fr. Eugene ]. Boyle Fr. Michael Walsh, S.]. Sr. Maureen Mahoney, speech and free assembly. Mr. James Burke, S.]. Wis Oregon Orange, California We have also chosen to ac consin Fr. John Wyand, Albany Sr. Lucy Malarkey, Pasa cept with the them the con- Mr. John McConeville, S.]., New York dena, California California Sr. Connie O'Conner, Rose Fr. Patrick Carroll, S.]., mont, Pennsylvania Oregon Sr. Regina Peltier, sequences of this action: ar Fr. Michael Cooper, S.]. , Marymount College, Salinas, rest and imprisonment. This Chicago Sr. Annabelle Raich Kansas imprisonment in the very Fr. Louis Cox, New York St. Louis Sr. Rachel La Paz de Jose, primitive conditions of the Fr. William Davis, S.]., Sr. Bernita McTernan, Bur Tucson Arizona Fresno County Jail and the Oregon lingame, California Sr. Felicia Sarati, Union City other makeshiftdetention fa Fr. Neil Doherty, New York Sr. Rose Cecilia Harrington California cilities. Proven beatings Mr. Andrew Dzida, S.]. , Torrance, California Sr. MaryCathleen Small, San of some of the farm workers California Sr. Mary Ellen Moore, Francisco by sheriffs deputies has Mr. Donald Foran, S.]. , Chicago Sr. Joan Viery, California been but the log;ical outcome Oregon Sr. Katharine Morris, Pa of anoutrageously unjust si Bro. Charles Fitzsimmons, sadena DOROTHY DAY, The Catholic tuation. C.S.C. Sr. Bernice Snell, Portland Worker, New York @ ~ IDess IS... 12 EL MALCRIADO P,ugust 24, 1973 Farm Worker- Forum • Boycott news from the East UAW joins In (The following material BOSTON =- Boston con MILWAUKEE -- Dave jor FREMONT, California - under the leadership of Sup comes from a Newletter put tinues working on the in gensen reports that all of Members of the United Auto port Committee Chairman, together by Union Vice Pre~ dependents and making plans the wholesalers with the e Workers, Local 1364, of the "Wheaties" Gonzalez, the sident Dolores Huerta and for a big AFL-CIO S'R0nsored xception of one have agreed Fremont General Motors ranks had grown with mem all of those working with rally August 7. The rally to carry only UFW grapes. plant formed a UFW Support bers of UAW from the San her on the A&P boycott- is being headed by joe Sul Committee to work with the Leandro International Har EL MALCRIADO) MINNESOTA -- Luis Cantu livan, head of the Massa- is taking on a major chain Fremont Boycott staff. On vester Plant. Chanting and , chusetts State AFL-CIO, al-· in Minnesota. He met with july 26 some thirty members leafleting, the Auto workers The price of grapes went so director of the Amalga of 1364 covered the parking brought a color and a flair down to the ground for the mated Meat Cutters and But a delegation of 45 people and was told flatly no, so lot of the Fremont Hub Safe to the boycott that was all scab Coachella growers; In chers. Nineteen clergymen way. There they joined the their own. the New York marketgrapes went out to join the picket he is setting up the Huelga Flags. boycott staff in a mass pic With promises to also were selling for $2.60 per lines in California, reports ket of the store. bring out their brothers and lug; in Los Angeles, $1.00 Nick jones, from leading OHIO - ~ Eliseo Medina re sisters in the Milpitas Ford a lug, and likewise through- congregations in Boston. ports picketing and legal Enthusiasm was very high Plant, the Auto workers are out the country. , , CHICAGO __ Chester Rui2 action against Fischer Faz among the men and women becoming a vital force which ATLANTA -~ jl~ Lynch re-. and Gus Gutierrez report 36 zio, a Cleveland Chain. of 1364, and when confronted we can counton in the months port~ the GeorgIa State U~l- picket lines at jewell's and BALTIMORE ~- Billy Ran by Fremont Police and the ahead now the the "Second verslty government en continuing t;l.ctivity at the Wa dell, formerly the Bronx NY Safeway injunction, many 'Great Grape Boycott" is on. dorsed the boycott and ~ lot tel." market to keep the price > organizer has taken over the were willing to go to jail This show of uni0tl soli-' of attention has been gIven of the grapes down. AMarch Baltimore boycott. Steve on the spot. darity is the kind of power, to the boycott·by local press. will take place in North Chi= jimenez had to return to Fremont police, well that growers', Tea!TIsters, police and government com ST. LOUIS ~.~ Nancy Welch cago where' supportis needed California due to his mo aware of the size of the UAW ther's illness. Billy was and the fact that they bined will be unable to de... continues her picketing at for Jewell july 28. the young man who was beat comprise the single, largest feat. Schnooks', a fancy St. Louis MONTREAL CANADA en up in front of Turco's economic unit in Fremont, cha~n: Picket lines and 01."- Jean Collier ~d Gerard Buf vegetable stand recently. declined to push the issue. jerry Caveglia ganlzmg at ~ very ~ood p~ce frey report their first vic The follOWing Satuday, Fremont Boycott and support IS growmg dally. tory in Montreal. A coop MIAMI -- Susan Stratil helped get one of New York's NEW YORK -,- The boy Chain store of 8 stores has top chains by putting up 15 cott momentum continues. agreed to handle only UFW ,picket lines against the chain Malcriado request A SOO-person demonstration produce, grapes and lettuce. in Miami. Florida is picke at Hunts Point Market' in Pretty good considering they . ting A&P 's and organizing ALL BOYCOTTERS cluded a large number of have been there ~uch a short new Committees in other PLEASE NOTE: You need clergy ~- priests, nuns and time. parts of Florida. . •to supply EL MALCRIADO supporters. The demonstra with pictures and stories DETROIT =- Cesar Chavez of your boycott so send them tion in protest against the c violence our brothers and spent a three-and=a-half the stories and photos when day tour of Michigan and re= P1TTSBURG %3 The YWCA, you have a special event sisters are suffering at the the Alleghany County Civil hands of Teamsters and she ports are that his reception because. they cannot have co~ Rights Commission, en= riffs was called by the Inter was magnificent. Press a reporter at your cities. verage , which was very dorsed the A&P boycott. The Also we need to push EL Faith Committee to Aid Mi= NAACP, the Americans for. grant Farm Workers. Re sorely needed, was abundent MALCRIADO sales so your as was the fund raising ac Democratic Action, the Oak sults--four wholesalers a~ supporters can have graphic companying his tour. At last land Democratic Club, the stories of the strike. If greed to carry only UFW 14th ward endorsed the grape grapes. count over $8,000 has been you are not using EL MAL turned in. Richard and Patty and lettuce boycott and are CRIADO in your boycott, you Chain store cooperation is all manning picket lines. mounting. Three of the top report that A&P has agreed are not doing your job. EL ca~ry Pittsburg is also working on New York City chain stores to only UFW grapes MALCRIADO should accom them~ independents and is being totaling. 900 stores agreed but will not commit pany you to every meeting selves on the lettuce, so the Successful in cleaning out church service, picket line, to cooperate with the lettuce the small stores. grape and D' Arrigo boycott. picket lines continue. and in busy areas of your city. NEW JERSEY, PHILA DELPHIA -- Ruth Shy and Dave Cormier are doing a nother joint action on Shop= ,Rite a large New jersey Official Voice of the United farm Workers Philadelphia chain this ------({'.,... 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Don't miss this . valuable background material! Please include your check or money order made out to INYA 50¢ EL TALLER GRAFICO. NAME _ HUELGAf, the fi;st book written on the grape strike. "The First Hundred Days of the Great Delano Grape Strike" is an exciting day by day account of what STREET ADDRESS _ happened when farm workers strUGk CHAVEZ WITH WORKERS: A beauH and eventually conquered the mighty ful full color photograph sklwing Cesar table grape industry of Delano, CITY STATE ZIP: _ Chavez with farm workers in a vine IHUE. ... $1.50 yard outside Delano. "The time has come for the liberation of the farm ~ worker. Viva la Causa!" f EL TALLER GRAFICO • P.O. BOX 62 ICIG $1.50 KEENE, CA. • 9353.1 14 EL MALCRIADO August 24,1973 Teamste rs' claims prove false by Msgr. George G. Higgins The last release of this the farm labor controversy. support of the Catholics. To the contrar.y, he is By prete~ding otherwise- column took note of the Incidentally, he has been re To the contrary, he is cur turning to main 'line, maIns for the obvious purpose of fact that those clergymen placed on the Committee by' ~,ently receiving more Ca stream Protestimt groups misleading the media-- they who are actively supporting a bishop who, both before tholic support than at any and Jewlsn orgamzanons have severely damaged their the United Farm Workers and since his appointment, previous time in the hist and is receiving an incr credibility. That's admit in the current" farm labor 'has strongly supported the ory of his movement. easing amount of support tedly a very harsh judgment. crisis in California are be UFW and severely critic (4) Chavez is not turning from both. but the record speaks for ing severely criticized. no ized the Teams~~s.! __ to Protestant splinter groups The 'teamsters know a11 itself and simply cannot be tably by Frank Fitzsimmons (3) Chavez is not losing the and JeWish leaders for help this as well as I do. ignored. President of the Internation al Brotherhood of Teamsters Mr. Fitzsimmons has re peatedly made the charge that pro-UFW clergymen (whose name by the way is legion) are totally in competent in the area of collective bargaining and labor-management relat ions and, accordingly, has bluntly advised them to mind their own business and stop Mking sides in the Teamster... parm Workers controversy. As a matter of fact, Fitzsimmons has Number 4 of a repeated this charge and has offered this gratuitous GUION: RENE G. D. MONTEMAA advice so frequently-- DIBUJOS: RoeERTO AlFONSO and with such intemperate vehemence-- in his recent THE ~I.W,AL POLICE OF ~R.FIRLO DIAL:. public statements as to sug W140 WERE neKING TWE COMPESINOS orF Tl-lE.IR LAND, STOP gest that he may be getting' E.UFEMIO ANO EMILlA~C> ZAPATA, (OOL IT, E'~(LIANO) LETS a little paranoid on the BACI<". T ~EsG'" GUYS subject. , WE TOLD you T~AT NOBODY GOES ,A~~ OUT \0 \