EI Malcriado,@0. ." The Voice of the Farm Worker ~ VOLUME 4 #13 DELANO, CALIFORNIA JANUARY 15, 1971 FARM WORKERS MARCH on Fort Ord· in protest of Pentagon purchase of boycotted Antle lettuce 1_.__u_Fw_o_c_s_u_E_s_P_EN_T_A_s~_?_AGEN_4 _I page 2/EL MALCRIADO Treachery In this Cannery # The l2,OOO-member Cannery under federal indictment on Workers Union Local 748 of Mo­ charges of violating gun and ex­ Issue desto may go under trusteeship plosive control laws has said he p. 2 SALINAS VlnLENCE because of unorthodox techniques and the other five worked for BRINGS ANTI-CHAVEZ used by its secretary-treasurer Gonsalves in Salinas as a picket. UNION SHAKEUP Ted Gonsalves in the Salinas William Grami, representing Valley dispute between the UFWOC the Western Conference of Team­ p. 2 FIREARMS CHARGES and the Teamsters. sters headquartered in Burling­ BROUGHT AGAINST The local's executive board ac­ ame, has been in Modesto SIX MODESTO MEN cused Gonsalves of spending at for a month to investigate accu­ least $24,000 in union funds on 5ations against Gonsalves. Grami p. 4 FARM WORKERS SUE the anti-Chavez campaign without revealed that he personally or- THE BIGGEST SCAB authorization from the board or OF 1HEM ALL: THE the membership. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT If approved by the membership, SIX INDICTED trusteeship means that all local p. 5 MILITARY BASES union officers, from the janitors ANTI-CHAVEZ PICKETTED IN to the top business agents and . PROTEST OF SCAB leaders, must turn in their re­ Six Modesto men were indicted LETTUCE PURCHASES Signations. Trusteeship also on December 30th by a federal means that the local's books will grand jury in Sacramento on fire­ o. 6 CONVICT LABOR be thoroughly audited for the arms charges stemming from an OUTLAWED first time by the International alleged plot to disrupt Cesar Cha­ Teamsters Union. The Cannery vez's Salinas Valley organizing p. 6 TEXANS DENOUNCE union is an affiliate of the Team­ activities. JAILING OF CESAR sters. The defendants are accused of Gonsalves campaigned against violating the Gun Control Act of D. 7 SENATOR HARMER'S UFW OC in Salinas for the Team­ 1968, and five of the eight counts BILL THREATENS sters even though his cannery of the indictment involve the FARM WORKER UNION workers were clearly more sym­ making and selling of explosive pathetic to the Chavez cause, ac­ devices. Two are for the sale n. 7 PICKETS HIT VALLEY cording to spokesmen in Local of sawed-off rifles. The eighth STORES SELLING 748. At a union meeting last alleges a conspiracy to violate I SCAB LETTUCE month, the membership of local the Act. 748 tried to oUSt Gonsalves and The crimi'lal acts are said to p. FARM WORKERS R demand an accounting. Gonsal­ have taken place between October PROPOSE A NEW ves at the time blamed the .29th and November 3rd. CLINIC IN DELANO, The United Farm Workers Or­ FUNDS, EQUIPMENT shortage of funds on "a mixup at the bank" and said that, be­ ganizing Committee's head­ [I AND PEOPLE ARE quarters at 721 1/2 San Benito NEEDED sides, he had paid back the $24,000 anti-Chavez expenses out Street in Hollister were ripped of his own pocket. Gonsalves apart by a dynamite explosion on p. 14 WHAT'S GOING ON claimed, too, that the Teamsters November 3rd. AT THE HUELGA Assistant U.S. Attorney Bruce SCHOOL THIS had promised to repay the cost MONTH? of the Salinas adventure. One of the six Modesto men • EL"MALCRIADO/page 3 p,hotos COVER PHOTO BY CRIS SANCHEZ brings on PHOTOS PAGES 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 BY e e CRIS SANCHEZ PHOTOS PAGE 15 BY union stir GORDON WILLIAMSON dered Gonsalves out of Salinas with three bodyguards in a black because of his behavior there. four-ton limousine once used on Gonsalves did not leave until the ..Mission Impossible" TV el September 15th. series. American flage flew from While in Salinas, Gonsalves the front fenders of the car, which "did us more harm than good,· is equipped with a bar and a mal Grami said. "His methods were television set. unorthodox." The car, purchased by Gonsal­ Grami apparently referred to ves in September, was built by criad:o what one Salinas lawman called the Lehman-Peters Co. of Chi­ IL ·w'ClIADq".... _ 01 ..... • _. II ....-. __ ., .. ~ Gonsalves' "outlandish pose" cago and originally cost $18,000, , .... WQUIU ClaGNflZlNO ... which included beingdriven around according to a former Modesto 110..-_Al't...e:lO. ·1 1$'......'II ..,..&.- ........... owner. The vehicle came equip­ ......u_CIMlII... ..-.UI..... ...• ped with two air conditioners and -"-.,~......, is reportedly the same model as A_.o.-.~ .. ­ ON CHARGE OF ~ 011 _. II '. II. WI OI'lADQ used by Governor Ronald Reagan. ....c....... __ ~-:.e:--.... ~eoa.-.... CONSPIRACY The Salinas lawman said he felt Gonsalves' limousine, his big @ 1971 United Farm Babcock of Sacramento told EL cigars and his. pin-striped suits Workers Organizing MALCRlADO that - for the pur­ were a pose meant to intimidate Committee AFL~CIO poses of the indictment - "the the opposing farm workers of conspiracy never got as far as UFWOC. any overt acts involving destruc­ Gonsalves lives near Hughson tion. The conspiracy was only on a guarded estate surrounded sub for transferring firearms, includ­ by acres of peach trees. He ing destructive devices••• " Bab­ is transported in the black limou­ cock added that "an undercover sine to and from the local's of­ agent who made purchiises and scribe fice in downtown Modesto. discussed things with the con­ While in Salinas, the Team­ spirators indicated the devices sters made their headquarters at were to be used to cause a little the Towne House Motel, where today trouble with Cesar Chavez' union." Gonsalves reportedly ran up a The defendants are Gene $5,000 bill. Only about $2,000 $3.50 BRINGS YOU ONE Fleming, Dale Cadwell, John of the bill has been paid. Em­ FULL YEAR OF EL Wilson, David Bean, Ronald ployes at the Towne House said MALCRIADO, THE VOICE Cocker and Floyd Jordan. Gonsalves and his group were "OF THE FARM WORKER ... Their trial is scheduled April 12. asked to leave about mid­ El Malcriado P.O Box 130 Babcock said the men amassed September because they used foul Delano~ guns, grenades and dynamite which language in the dining room of Ca 93215 they intended to use for disrup­ an adjoining restaurant. tive activities against UFWOC. Gonsalves asked Teamster The defendants list th~ir occu­ boss Grami to consider paying Name pations as truck drivers and la­ some of his expenses. Grami borer. says he told Gonsalves to submit Address the expenses, and said he would City State Zip look at them. ,4/EL..............................•.................................MALCRIADO UFWOC Files Suit Against No. I Scab: the Pentagon I •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• On Wednesday, January 6, 1971 partment and Bud Antle is a vio­ "experienced a very dramatic Cesar Chavez and the United Farm lation of the First Amendment Withering away of military sales Workers filed suit against Secre­ which guarantees the right to as­ after it signed with us," says tary of Defense Melvin Laird and sociate freely and organize. By the UFWOC boycott department. Bud Antle, Inc., one of the world's preventing the right to organize In addition, the Defense De­ largest producers of lettuce. The the defendants are preventing the partment has made purchases of suit was filed in U.S. District lettuce boycott to take place. Bud Antle lettuce at prices sub­ Court for the central district of The farm workers charge that stantially higher than the prevail­ California. they have been deprived of their ing market price for lettuce of According to Jerry Cohen, at­ right to be free from illegal eco­ similiar quality. On December torney for the Union, the Defense nomic injury. 15, 1970 the Defense Personnel Department and Bud Antle Cor­ In 1970, 8.3% of the Defense Subsistence Center in Los An­ poration have violated the First department's lettuce was bought geles received 49,320 pounds of and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. lettuce at 12.3 cents per pound. Constitution, the Administration The COSt of a crate of lettuce Procedure Act, the Armed Service at this price came to a total Procurement Regulations, and of $5.54. On that very same day civil causes of action. the highest quality of wrapped The Pentagon is acting as a lettuce sold anywhere in Los An­ strikebreaker for the huge Bud geles sold at $3.50 a crate. Antle Company by sharplyincreas­ This is not the first time the ing its purchase of high-priced farm workers have come to grips scab Antle lettuce, while ignoring with the Defense Department. In lettuce available from growers 1969 when UFWOC was boycotting under UFWOC contract. table grapes the Defense Depart­ Their conduct is another ex­ ment's purchase of table grapes ample of the historic discrimina­ rose considerably. Pentagon of­ tion Chicano and Filipino farm ficials at that time denied that workers have suffered in the U­ they were taking part in an at­ nited States. The suit charges from Bud Antle. In the first tempt to break the boycott. It that the defendants are motivated quarter of this year alone 29.1% was due to "growing troop ac­ by racial hostility, and are thus of the lettuce destined for the ceptance of grapes and because depriving minorities of their armed forces was Antle lettuce. there were fewer supplies than right to equal protection of the law. At the same time purchases oJ usual of other fresh fruits." Because the United Farm lettuce from those companies Payment for damages has been Worke,s are involved in a labor which have signed contracts with asked for by UFWOC.