20c APR-'L 1966 VOL 2 MOVEMENT NO.4 Pub Iished by $2OC The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of California Schenley Signs! National DiGiorgio Boycott Organized WEST OF WOl, CALIFORNIA -- The The agreement on the part of the NFWA marchers from Delano had been expecting was to end the strike and picketing of the DELANO PILGRIMAGE: P. 3-6 something to happen for days. On Monday Schenley Ranch in Delano and call off the night at the fiesta in Stockton, Cesar Cha­ National boycott of Schenley products. Both The Brown - Di Giorgio Plan was rejected vez announced to a closed meeting of the are suspended until a satisfactory contract by the NFWA. However, Governor ~rown Wide Open Future pilgrims that the Schenley Corporation is reached or until negotiations breakdown. asked the State Mediation Service to enter The Schenley agreement meansthe begin­ wanted to talk. He asked their permission The agreement was s i g ned by Cesar into the Di Giorgio strike. A meeting called ning of wide changes in farm labor and in the to leave the Pflgrimage. They granted it. Chavez and the attorney for Schenley, and by the State Mediation Service in Fresno NFWA. Barring tough fighting from the Neither the marchers nor Cesar knew was witnessed by William Kircher, Direc­ a week after the pilgrimage was ignored Meany supporters in the AFL-CIO and jur­ what was going to be discussed. So the news tor of Organizationfor the AFL-CIO. Kirch­ by the NFWA. isdictional fighting from other unions, both on Wednesday morning was a complete er was in great partresponsiblefor bringing "We are happy to see that the Di Giorgio AFL and independent, which may decide now surprise. The group was about 3 miles the two parties together. According to one Corporation has accepted our proposal for to jump into thefarm laborfield, theNation- , west of Lodi when Cesar called from Los source, there was so m e disagreement elections at the Sie;:-ra Vista Ranch -- a al Farm Workers Associationis the organi­ Angeles. among the AFL-CIO officials involved over proposal they rejected several weeks ago," zation qf farm 'laborers. The radio-telephone car was parked by the question of participation by the AFL­ said the NFWA reply to Robert Di Giorgio. The leaders of the NFWA see an explo­ the road. The reception was poor and the CIO's AWOC in the agreement. AWOC does "We feel that thegoverning rules for such sion of organizing all over California. conversation was cut off once. By the time not have a certified labor dispute at the an election should be those the National There is speculation about beginning organ­ the message was delivered, the marchers Schenley Ranch (nor atthe DiGiorgio ranch). Labor Relations Board would use if they izing in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and were a half-mile up the road. When the truck Meanyites within the AFL-CIO are not were holding the election." the South. A contract with Schenley means caught up, they were resting in the shade. strong supporters of the NFWA, which they "We refuse to be a party to any agree­ , the NFWA has to set up and administrate Roberto Bustos, jefe of the Pilgrimage, recognize as a potential liberalizing force ment that involves the Kern-Tulare lnde­ a hiring hall; it means a system of stew­ Tony Mendez,. NFWA staff member, and within the labor movement. pendent Farm Workers Association." The ards, contract enforcement, bureaucracy. T ann n, Press secretary for the The dispute at the Schenley Ranch, it K-T IFW is a collection ofDelano business­ But it means power. And to consolidate an( Pilgrimage, climbed on top of a car under was agreed, was between Schenley and the men, contractors and superVisors qUickly take advantage of new power a bureau­ a tree. Cannon made the announcement in NFWA. AWOC was not made a party to the assembled last Fallto counteracttheNFWA. cracy is necessary. "That's part of the English and Bustos translated. "We have agreement. Copies of the Di Giorgio proposal had price we have to pay," says Cesar Chavez. won a great Victory," he said. "Schenley Within a week, the shock of the Schen­ been sent to the NFWA, AWOC and the Kern­ "It doesn't mean we'll be any less mili­ has signed an agreement with us." It took ley agreement had begun to mock a whole Tulare ~ou2'_ tant. It does mean we have to organize a a long time for the marchers to get quiet lot of apples out of the tree. Di Giorgio Boycott more efficient office." again. One, who had walked all the way, The NFWA is putting the movement back The NFWA announced at the Easter rally began to cry. into the labor movement. When theSchenley at the Capitol that it was beginning a na­ The Brown-Di Giorgio Plan agreement was signed a labor officialof­ tion - wide boycott of Di Giorgio products. The giant Di Giorgio Corporation ap­ fered Chavez a big cigar. "I don't smoke The boycott will begin with TREE-SWEET Not a Contract-Yet proached the NFWA, in the words of Cesar cigars," Cesar demurred. "But you have to FRUIT JUICES and S & W FINE FOODS, The S c hen ley agreement is not a con­ Chavez, , 'bearing an olive branch in one smoke them" said ,the amazed official. wholly-owned'Di Giorgio subsidiaries. The tract -- yet. The terms are: hand and a sword in the other." Without There are more surprises instorefor the national apparatus of the Schenley boycott: 1) That the Schenley Corporation recog­ contacting ,the NFWK first, Robert Di labor movement: Cesar drinks tea, not centers in 60 cities -- will be Switched nizes the NFWA as the sole bargaining Giorgio, a lcorporation 'vice - president, coffee, and the young Mexican-Americans ! over to Di Giorgio. agent for all its agricultural laborers in called a press coriference in which he an­ who are moving up to positions ofimportance Kern and Tulare Counties. nounced his plan for solving the' 'mutually "We will be recruiting 300 students to in the Association think and act like SNCC 2) That the Schenley Corporation recog­ unsatisfactory;' labor situation in Delano. work full time on the Di Giorgio boycott field secretaries, not 0 ffi cia1s of toe nizes that the majority of its agricultural ~ it he called for elections of Di Giorgio this summer," said Rev. jim Drake, na- Plumbers Union. tional coordinator. "It will be aimed at I _ employees want this to be so. workers, but tied them in tightly with pre­ 3) That negotiations for a written contract conditions: compulsory arbitration ~e­ the housewife. We will do all we can to will begin within 30 days and conclude with­ jected by every labor union in the country) link the Di Giorgio brand names with in 90. and a clause calling for no strikes "during rural poverty." J' "FARMWORKER FRIEND "OON'T BUY SCHENLEY" signs were negotiations or during or after arbitration." The wide Catholic support ofthe Pilgrim­ passed up to the car and torn in half. "What it all adds up to," said one union .age and the strike put the squeeze on OF THE YEAR" AWARD Then a minister, marching with the group, member, "is this: Di Giorgio will set up Catholic grape growers and those that sell offered a prayer of thanks for the good a company union on his ranch if we can to Catholic churches. The Christian Broth­ news. Leaving the Schenley signs behind, get 51% of the scabs to vote for it." ers Winery, which had refused to negotiate the pilgrims picked up the flags and ban­ The Di Giorgio proposal was worked in the Fall, qUickly recognized the NFWA ners and the Our Lady of Guadalupe and out, according to a very reliable source, as the bargaining agent for their field began to march again. Schenley is only one by Robert Di Giorgio and William Becker, workers. The next target will be growers of 35 growers who are being struck. Assistant to Governor Brown. , that sell wine for sacramental use. GOVERNOR 165 ARRESTED IN GEORGIA BOYCOTT • FLAG INCIDENT BROWN gration. t'orty Negro childrenwere enrolled CORDELE, GEORGIA -- One hundred this year in white schools under the free More than 500 Negro students in Cordele and fifty Negro demonstrators were ar­ choice system. boycotted junior and senior high' schoolS­ This man refused to meet 8,000 people rested April,4 as they picketed in support Demonstrations beg a n March 28 and since the demonstrations started. Among 'who came to see him Easter Sunday, includ­ of a boycott of the segregated junior and reached a climax March 31 when two groups them were twelfth-graders who were in ing 75 who had walked 300 miles from senior high schools of Crisp County. They of 250 Negro students marched to the Crisp the first grade when the 1954 Supreme Court Delano, California. He said, "The request were charged with disturbing the peace. County Court House and loweredtheGeorgia school integration decision was handed of the farm workers to see me on Easter It was the second set of arrests since and US flags. Local white officials claimed down and have gone to segregated schools is unreasonable." Negro students marched to the court house that the US flag was "defiled" and have ever since. This man refused to push legislation March 31 and took down the US and Georgia brought the act to national attention. Negro schools in Cordele have no science, needed by the farm workers through the flags. Several days after the "flag incident" (U.S.