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44 Arrested: Strike GRAPE STRIKE, 2ND MONTH 1Ott VOL I NO. II NOV. MOVEMENT 1965 Published by The .Student Nonviolent Coord inating .Committee of Ca lifornia 44 Arrested: Strike THE TWO TONE FLAG is an October innovation in the strike: red for blood, black for sorrow. It is allegedly used by Mexican unions. Gets Wide Support SPEC IAL TO THE MOVEMENT an acre. Growers repay $123..The rest that ruling. They were bo!,ked for illegal GEORGE BALUS is pure subsidy. assembly and failure to disperse. FWA Vice-President Dolores Huertawas DELANO -- ·"Legal" Harassment arrested twic~ in one week for trespass­ During October, the Delano grape strike ing. The first time she was held 24 hours grew into a movement. Ministers and col­ and released on her own recognizance. lege students jolned the picket lines. Union Kern and Tulare County sheriffs ruled She claims she did not enter the property. members in Los Angeles, Oakland, that no shouting would be allowed on the The second arrest occurred when she San Francisco, Fresno, / and Washington picket lines. Strictly enforced, this would inadvertantly led a crew of pickets down (the Industrial Union department, AFL­ ruin their effectiveness. Shouting is the a private road whiCh from appearances, CIO) donated money. Civil-rights, Mexi- only way pickets on the road can communi­ black-topped and all, looked like a public '~an-American, union, liberal and church cate with workers in the fields. road. All were arrested by Kern County groups throughout the state gathered food, 48 hours after this ruling was announced, deputies when a grower signed a com­ clothing and money. Strike leaders visited Rev. David Havens, FWA staffer, was plaint. Bail was set at $276 each, a stag­ campuses to raise money. arrested for reading Jack London's de­ gering total of $12,144. As the growers became aware of the finition of a scab in a voice that could growing strength of the movement, they be heard 50 feet away. pulled out all the repressive and divisive Attac.k on a Picket ta.ctics they could use. The Philippine Counsel was transpor­ Mass A r.rests The day before Rev. Havens was ar­ ted to Delano, where he urged the Fili­ rested for reading aloud (he told police kicked, elbowed, tripped, kneed and cursed pino strikers to return to work at their Two days later, 44 persons, including he was reading a sermon ), grower George strikers in full view of police. Nothing old ,pay rates. The strikers retaliated by nine ministers and a mother of 11, were Dulcich choked .a: picket so hard he broke has been done. picketing his office in Los Angeles and arrested by Kern County authorities. They the leather camera strap around the pick­ et's neck. A cop who witnessed it did calling for his recall. The Counsel then had set out purposely to test the sheriff's "'Mississippi West" declared his belief in higher wages. ruling. They were booked for violating nothing. A Kern deputy witnessed grower Charles Dispoto knock strike leader Hec­ Ministers assisting the strikers have The Poverty Program tor Abeytia, who is crippled, to the ground been stopped by police for no other reason and beat him. The deputy reported it to than to get their names. One car of ministers was stopped because they had When a $267,000 War on Poverty grant Delano city police. By the time they ar­ was awarded to the striking Farm Workers rived, Dispoto had left. Both Abeytia and a "gun" in the back seat. The gun turned Association, Democratic Congressman a witness named Dispoto as the assail­ out to be a rolled-up American flag. Harlan Hagen immediately flewfrom Wash­ ant. The police report, however, recorded The hostility of the· police has earned ington to Delano. There he blasted the the assailan( as unknown. Only after a Delano the title of "Mississippi West." union and the poverty grant. He met with two-day visit by a man from the state growers and urged them to ignore the Attorney General's office would the Kern Strike Will Continue unions, organize the workers themselves County District Attorney accept Abeytia's and set their own wages and working complaint. The real squeeze on the growers will conditions. 15 minutes after Dispoto attacked Abey­ come after the harvest is completed -­ around ThanksgiVing. Then the skilledwork One of Hagen's chief objections was that tia, police witnessed Dispoto and another federal funds might· be used as a tool striker, Bert Delarmente, shouting at one of pruning the vines for next years' crop against the· growers. He did not seem con­ another. Delarmente made a few menacing begins. cerned that the gigantic federal subsidies remarks. He was arrested on the spot It looks as if the strike will continue to the growers might be used against the for striking Dispoto. through the pruning and into the next unions. Most of the ranches .being struck Dispoto is over 6 feet tall and weighs harvest. The unions may use the. tactic are receiving irrigation water from the ARRESTED MINISTER being frisked. Rev. over 200 pounds. Delarmente is a foot of a boycott. federally-constructed Friant-Kern Canal. Francis Geddes of San· Francisco, one of 9 shorter and 100 pounds lighter. The grape strike of 1965, now two months old, is just beginning. The cost of furnishing this water is $700 ministers jailed. On Picket lines Dispoto has repeatedly FRAUD IN ARKANSAS SCHOOL ELECTIONS Negro candidates ran for seats on School In GOULD, a town 82% Negro, fraud IN HELENA, in the Negro diso;ict, there ponsible for enforcing these laws," says Boards across the state of Arkansas this·· occured at each of the three polling places. was excessive police presence, amounting the Special SNCC Report on the Arkansas fall. Of the 30 who ran, all but one was At City Hall poll-watchers counted the num­ to indirect police intimidation. A police elections. defeated -- that one opposed by another ber of white and Negro voters. A total dog was left unchained and unattended in Negro. SNCC backed a number of these of 272 persons voted. The judges total, a police car parked outside the polling Action can be taken on the Federal level, the report continues, "but the Voting Rights candidates, and has first-hand accounts however came to 288. At the Youth Cen­ place. The windows of the car were left Act will be as meaningless as all the of fraud used to defeat them. ter the pollwatchers counted 243 voters; open, and the dog ran back and forth in earlier Civil Rights Acts which 'protected' IN FORREST CITY an official repre­ the judge gave 304 votes to the white the car, snarling and barking at voters. sentative at the polls witnessed a group candidate. The judges at the Arkansas Street Fire voting rights -- unless the FederalGovern­ ment enforces it fully, aggressively and of Negroes enter the polling place and At the Douglass Store 7 votes were Station ih Helena accompanied most Ne­ hand their registration cards to the elec­ recorded for the Negro candidate, but gro voters into the voting booths andwatched promptly. It is not enough for the FBI to ask a few questions the day after and tion judges. The judge waited until af­ 12 people are willing to sign the affi­ them vote. Many election judges were seen send another report to Washington. ter 6:30 P.M. the closing time, to tell davits that they voted for this candidate. moving from one polling place to another them they were at the wrong polling place. IN WEST MEMPHIS there were a large during the voting, leading to the suspicion "The Constitution does not say 'the By then, it was too late for them to vote. number of missing ballots. A rigidly en­ that illegal activities were being coor­ right of citizens to vote-shall not be denied After the polls were closed, a group forced system of segregation at the poll­ dinated. except when it is too much trouble, or of Negroes was turned away, being told it ing place made easy the task of elimin­ politically inexpedient for the FederalGov­ was too late to vote. A well-dressed white ating ballots of Negro voters. In each of these CItieS, a number of ernment to prevent it':' woman then drove up and was permitted At the West Memphis Junior High School Arkansas laws were Violated. SNCC workers . The 'effect of a failure on the part of to vote. almost 1000 ballots were unaccounted for. feel, however, that going to the COW"; s the Federal Government is predictable," A poll-watcher also reported that the A poll-watcher counted 569 Negro vot~rs would be futile. The illegal practices do the SNCC Report concludes, "Until now, election judge was calling out the ballots between 12:05 and 6:30 p.m. and estimated not represent isolated accidentalinstances, many Negro Arkansans have maintained to the clerks. He called the names of the that twice that number of whites voted. but .l deliberate policy to make meaning­ their faith that the ballot box is the way white candidates when the Negro candi­ ThL-MemDhis ..I=:Y_~!lil}g Times, corrobor­ less the Negro vote. "This policy has to secure social justice. The continued dates were marked on the ballot. She ates this. However, a total of only 578 the approval, tacit or outright, and the denial of effective suffrage can be e',,·· was afraid to complain about it at the votes was recorded. This indicated that support, implicit or explicit, of the poli­ pected to erode that faith.
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