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United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
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box: 345
folder: 4
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1968 to 1969
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CABLE:
“UAW
DETROIT’
Solidarity House
a
—
BOOO
EAST
DETROIT,
MICHIGAN
PHONE
INTERNATIONAL
UNION,
UNITED
WALTER
P.
AUTOMOBILE,
REUTHER.........
LEONARD
AEROSPACE
& AGRICULTURAL
PRESIDENT
EMIL
WOODCOCK..vVICE-PRESIDENT
PAT
IMPLEMENT
MAZEY
.....
GREATHOUSE.......
JEFFERSON
All
WORKERS
OF AMERICA-UAW
SECRETARY-TREASURER
VICE-PRESIDENT
Presidents
Union
Local
in Michigan
and Ohio
Greetings:
as
UAW,
The
you
know,
has
been
support to the farm workers of California in their
recognition and collective bargaining rights under
Cesar Chavez.
boycott
We are
behalf
help
providing
in their
struggle for union
the leadership of
UAW,
which
is
attached.
As representatives of the farm workers contact you for
boycott program, will you please cooperate and offer them
assistance.
Fraternally
WPR:lbm
opeiu42
att.
PRINTED
IN
USA
meaningful
Currently the farm workers are engaged in a consumer
program against the purchase of California grown table grapes.
assisting them in their efforts and I have issued a statement in
of the
|
yours,
Walter P. Reuther
President
48214
926-5000
July 30, 1968
To
AVE.
UAW
STATEMENT
ON
BOYCOTT
OF
CALIFORNIA
GRAPES
The UAW, mindful of the meaningful aid it received in the early days
of its organizing and negotiating efforts, recognizes that strong unions have a
win
and
on
iti
ogn
rec
in
obta
to
ns
unio
g
lin
ugg
str
ll
sma
the
responsibility to help
Motivated by this principle the UAW
decent wages and working conditions.
lity
equa
and
ice
just
m,
edo
fre
for
ggle
stru
s
eou
rag
cou
the
ion
ept
inc
joined at its
undertaken by the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee.
al
ion
tut
sti
Con
W
UA
t
2ls
ent
rec
the
to
tes
ega
del
the
by
en
tak
ion
The act
an
for
led
cal
and
s
ker
wor
m
far
the
for
t
por
sup
W
UA
d
Convention reaffirme
intensification of its efforts.
The
UFWOC,
a
small,
valiant
group
of farm
workers,
under
the
r
abo
i-l
ant
id
rig
the
h
oug
thr
ken
bro
has
,
vez
Cha
ar
Ces
of
p
shi
der
lea
capable
t
ges
lar
the
of
few
a
g
zin
ani
org
in
ded
cee
suc
and
s
nes
usi
i-b
ranks of agr
.
cts
tra
con
ing
ett
e-s
pac
nt
ica
nif
sig
ng
ati
oti
neg
in
and
ry
ust
ind
the
in
ons
ati
por
cor
and
up
gro
ble
era
sid
con
at
ed
iev
ach
ses
ces
suc
the
The road has been hard and
n
tio
tec
pro
RA
NL
t
hou
wit
are
y
the
ce
Sin
s.
ker
personal sacrifice by the farm wor
by
ke
stri
ze
ani
org
to
ons
ati
por
cor
s
nes
usi
i-b
agr
the
by
ced
for
g
bein
they are
s.
ker
wor
the
of
will
the
ine
erm
det
to
ism
han
mec
ul
cef
pea
any
strike, without
ze
imi
min
to
s
wer
gro
the
by
ed
loy
emp
is
ch
whi
ent
rim
det
l
An additiona
as
wn
kno
rs,
ore
lab
n
ica
Mex
of
on
ati
ort
imp
the
is
ike
str
the
of
s
the effectivenes
a
by
ted
men
ple
com
was
tic
tac
ng
aki
bre
ike
str
this
ly,
ent
Rec
"green carders'',
ly
ari
por
tem
y,
pan
Com
ra
mar
Giu
the
by
s
ele
Ang
Los
in
ed
Federal court order obtain
the
t
ins
aga
law
the
ing
orc
enf
m
fro
es
iti
hor
aut
on
ati
igr
prohibiting U. S. imm
ss.
gre
pro
in
is
e
put
dis
or
lab
a
re
whe
lds
fie
into
s''
importation of ''green carder
nt
ce
de
d
an
s
me
co
in
ng
vi
li
n
wi
to
ht
fig
the
In an effort to continue
ct
pe
es
-r
lf
se
of
e
ns
se
a
es
lv
se
em
th
for
n
working conditions and to be able to wi
a
d
te
ia
it
in
s
ha
C
WO
UF
the
t,
gh
ri
hrt
bi
's
on
and dignity which is every pers
.
pes
gra
le
tab
a
rni
ifo
Cal
all
t
ins
aga
t
cot
boy
er
sum
con
al
nation
to
le
gg
ru
st
r
ei
th
in
s
er
rk
wo
rm
fa
the
aid
The UAW, fully committed to
y
ll
ra
mo
d
an
ly
ul
tf
gh
ri
e
ar
ey
th
h
ic
wh
to
e
ic
win that measure of equity and just
s
es
pr
d
an
n
joi
ly
ve
ti
ac
to
es
li
mi
fa
r
ei
th
entitled, urges all its members and
or
n
ow
gr
es
ap
gr
ia
rn
fo
li
Ca
t
ns
ai
ag
t
ot
yc
bo
er
vigorously the national consum
the
y,
tl
en
es
Pr
s.
ke
ri
st
e
ar
e
er
th
processed by unfair employers against whom
-ts
uc
od
pr
o
gi
or
Gi
Di
of
n
io
pt
ce
ex
the
th
wi
es
ap
gr
ia
rn
fo
li
Ca
all
t
ns
ai
ag
is
t
ot
yc
bo
t
en
ag
ng
ni
ai
rg
ba
the
as
C
WO
UF
the
ed
iz
DiGiorgio has recogn
"Hi-Color'' label.
d,
te
ma
um
ns
co
en
be
s
ha
t
en
em
re
ag
ng
ni
ai
for their field workers and a collective barg
opeiu42
iJ
Fuly 15, 1968
.
Walter
' PR
oe
INTERNATIONAL
er,
ce
UNION
UAW
l
C
ors
DON'T
BUY
CALIFORNIA
Kitzman, Director
Region 10 UAW
Harvey
coast
to
coast
Buy California
memBexs
wordsef
and
people
3
fed
same
table
As
nit
California
couvages
to stand
at
By
r
i
e
April
to
1968
of
with
1985.
Under
the
a
amployers
wer@:
owned
of
the
Wine
#fdustry.
Among
ExTeorTaed
-otgned
those
signing
Goldberg,
Giorgio
(Di
Gallo.
and
of cheap
Committee had
Perelli,Winette,
Giongefd,
Almaden,
A plentiful/supply
Organizisle
Workers
by
Di
Schenley,
also
provides
grapes.)
organizatidn
of
to be more
difficult)
for
strike
continues.
ComMMIGS
the waden.,
fight
Coupled
is
in‘gpite
|Eerfi
United
the
Brothers,|Novitiata,
The
the
*
border.
most|vineyards
contracts
Christian
table
up
the Mexican
contracts
union
in
in
vanevards
the
struck
ages. \Sdlem-womkens
ervatien
of
NERVE
labor
those
for
\high pricd@s
extremely
grapes.
a
Delano,
where ultimately
yet
wohkers;
4
\ we
(STRIKE )®
"Huelga”
cryNef
the
with
‘Don't
‘ware reside.
who
from
echoed
and
day
the
to farm
wages
cheap
pay
grapes
the
synonymfeys
is a call
Grapes"
table
of
growerg
union
wherever
is
Grapes"
CaléefOPnia
Buy
‘Don't
GRAPES
with
a second-class
workers
however,
are
are
bargaining.
ne
the
the
covered
excludef@l
by the
from
imported
illégal
employer
:
reactiondry
.
cifizen
of
the
are
owners
United
National
theflaw
and
he
are
faces,
labor
Relations
hence
every™method
from
labor
States
Labor
using
farm
Act.
denied
freak
worker
All
force.
The
the
to
the
finds
strike.
he
American
farm
right
result,
pog6ible
Mexico\to
the
*esf@&
arid
Gommittee,
was
grapes
table
of
producers
the
Organizing
Farm Workers
Reactiohary
uding
by
owned
vineyards
workers,
of collective
tom
The
UAW
has
allied
of California.
We
have
cause
stood
was
of every
been
to
member
propaganda
of the
workers
Sixty-one
wherever
appears
Fair
total
Labor
farm
Standards
work
Hourly
force
wages
in
each
1.4
million.
agriculture
and
there
for
women
and
children
are
set
Workers
remember
cause
of
and
justice
grape
come
that
live
is a matter
the
striking
strikers
Brothers
farm
rallying
at
at
Delano
Delano
workers
to that
cause.
because
their
becomes
oppression
an
effort
tell
the
to
defeat
these
true
story.
The
is approximately
$1,500
not
law
covered
actually
are
basically
are
no
by the
of
laws
134 days
by
applies
to
meaningless
protecting
California
the
Industrial
average
Migrant
per year.
a year
minimum
gallant
wage
only
(about
provisions
390,000
because,
farm
7% months).
too,
worker.
Commission
to
of
by
the
Workers,
year,
economic
strikers.
the
Farm
vineyards
not
justice
Their
like
by the
and
cause
of the
Auto
hour
social
must
table
Workers
be
or
by
justice
our
grape
cause
--
like
the
that
room
Wages
which
day.
until
country.
American
binds
of
of a
enforcement.
everywhere
It
the
of those
an average
are
The
deducted
must
in
facts
Act.
are
We
the
our
day
workers
board
adequate
of
only
and
lacks
with
the
work
of
of
vanguard
in California
farm
cause
he resides.
but
in California
of
the
in the
shoulder
vineyards,
percent
with
oppression
of a farm worker
income
the
shoulder
Union
strikers
have
just--because
Much
farm
We
itself
us
victory
to
The
in Atlantic
UAW
go on record
the
scab
grape
land
our
Let
vineyards.
which
message
-- a simple
your
what
Union
California
Our
California
vineyards
super
until
slogan
Table
will
the
of all
California
of farm
workers
will
is.
Let there
be
justice
on the
shelves
victory
Grapes",
continue
for
while
the
the
farm
pledge
to be:
HUELGA
(STRIKE).
HaHHH
throughout
heard
him
the
know
of
in the vineyards
of market
worker
is,
Vive
and warehouse.
"Don't
farm
of the
i
of the
Sisters
Let
feel.
how
rot
organize
Grapes"
Table
you
until
grapes
in the vineyards:
a wallop
pack
manager
grapes
and
understood
clearly
the
"That
to
and
Brothers
our
Union
bargaining agreements."
market
Solidarity
or let
resolution,
California
Ruy
"Don't
Tell
be
message
its
with
join
therefore,
us all,
in
collective
their own union and win honorable
Let
International
right
the
accept
growers
UAW
boycott
the
supporting
of the
said
unanimously
1968,
City,
Convention
to the
delegates
A.
Buy
worker
in the
Jim
Irv
n
io
at
rm
fo
in
ed
il
ta
de
get
d
ul
co
we
if
d
ke
Walter as
on the amounts of money collected and distributed by the
UAW Presidents Committee to Aid Farm Workers as
well as the current status of the program.
IB:im
opeiu42
JUL 11 1969
July 10, 1968
Obreros Unidos
Box 119
Wautoma, Wisconsin 54982
Attention:
Dear
Jess Salles
Brother Salles:
Our UAW
Presidents Committee
to Aid Farm Workers is
g
tin
mee
in
you
ist
ass
to
00
,
000
$1,
for
ome
pleased to enclose our
some of your financialobligations in your effort to organize the farm
workers in Wisconsin, insaccordance with your request to Regional
Director Harvey Kitzman.
As you know, our UAW Presidents Committee to Aid Farm
Workers has been working closely with your organization in Michigan
and Ohie to make our contribution in this most difficult, but extremely
necessary, organizing job. Im the very near future, we will be working
with Grother Kitzman and the Presidents of our UAW Local Unions in
Wisconsin and Minnesota to provide a more effective organization and
means of communication with the farm workers in those two states.
We extend to you and your fell
n;
zi
ni
ga
or
ur
yo
in
s
es
cc
su
d
ue
in
nt
co
for
w workers
our best wishes
_ Fraternally yours,
Walter Dorosh, Chairman
UAW Presidents Committee
r
e
h
t
u
e
R
.
P
c:\Walter
Emil Mazey
n
a
m
e
t
i
K
Harvey
Jim Ogden
John Bateman
WD/okb
o
i
c
i
f
a
Z
d
u
i
e
op
to Aid Farm Workers
CABLE:
““UAW
He
Sf
DETROIT”
BOOoO
EAST
DETROIT,
MICHIGAN
PHONE
INTERNATIONAL
UNITED
UNION,
REUTHER.........
P.
WALTER
AUTOMOBILE,
LEONARD
AEROSPACE
& AGRICULTURAL
EMIL
PRESIDENT
PAT
WOODCOCK..VICE-PRESIDENT
July
All
To
Union
Local
in Michigan
IMPLEMENT
MAZEY
.....
GREATHOUSE.......
30,
JEFFERSON
WORKERS
OF AMERICA-UAW
SECRETARY-TREASURER
VICE-PRESIDENT
1968
and Ohio
Greetings:
as
UAW,
you
know,
has
been
support to the farm workers of California in their
recognition and collective bargaining rights under
Cesar
behalf
struggle for union
the leadership of
er
um
ns
co
a
in
d
ge
ga
en
are
s
er
rk
wo
rm
fa
the
y
Currentl
program against the purchase of California grown table grapes.
in
ent
tem
sta
a
ued
iss
e
hav
I
and
s
ort
eff
ir
the
in
m
assisting the
of the
UAW,
which
is
attached,
for
u
yo
t
ac
nt
co
s
er
rk
wo
rm
fa
the
of
s
ve
ti
ta
en
es
pr
re
As
em
th
er
off
and
e
at
er
op
co
se
ea
pl
u
yo
l
wil
m,
ra
in their boycott prog
assistance.
Fraternally
WPR:lbm
opeiu42
att.
PRINTED
IN
USA
meaningful
Chavez.
boycott
We are
help
providing
|
Walter P.
President
yours,
Reuther
48214
926-5000
Presidents
The
AVE.
UAW
STATEMENT
ON
BOYCOTT
OF
CALIFORNIA
GRAPES
The UAW, mindful of the meaningful aid it received in the early days
of its organizing and negotiating efforts, recognizes that strong unions have a
win
and
n
nitio
recog
obtain
to
unions
gling
strug
small
the
help
to
lity
nsibi
respo
Motivated by this principle the UAW
decent wages and working conditions.
joined at its inception the courageous struggle for freedom, justice and equality
undertaken by the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee.
The action taken by the delegates to the recent 21st UAW Constitutional
an
for
ed
call
and
ers
work
farm
the
for
ort
supp
UAW
ed
firm
reaf
on
enti
Conv
intensification of its efforts.
The
UFWOC,
a
small,
valiant
group
of farm
workers,
under
the
capable leadership of Cesar Chavez, has broken through the rigid anti-labor
ranks of agri-business and succeeded in organizing a few of the largest
corporations in the industry and in negotiating significant pace-setting contracts.
and
p
grou
able
ider
cons
at
eved
achi
s
esse
succ
the
and
hard
been
has
The road
Since they are without NLRA protection
personal sacrifice by the farm workers.
they are being forced by the agri-business corporations to.organize strike by
strike, without any peaceful mechanism to determine the will of the workers.
An additional detriment which is employed by the growers to minimize
as
wn
kno
rs,
ore
lab
n
ica
Mex
of
on
ati
ort
imp
the
is
ke
stri
the
of
the effectiveness
a
by
ted
men
ple
com
was
ic
tact
ng
aki
bre
ke
stri
this
ly,
Recent
'oreen carders',.
ly
ari
por
tem
y,
pan
Com
ra
mar
Giu
the
by
s
ele
Ang
Los
in
ed
ain
Federal court order obt
the
nst
agai
law
the
ing
orc
enf
m
fro
ies
orit
auth
on
ati
igr
imm
prohibiting U. S.
ss,
gre
pro
in
is
ute
disp
r
labo
a
re
whe
ds
fiel
into
'
ers'
card
een
''gr
of
importation
ent
dec
and
s
me
co
in
ing
liv
win
to
ht
fig
the
ue
tin
con
In an effort to
ect
esp
f-r
sel
of
se
sen
a
es
lv
se
em
th
for
win
to
e
abl
be
to
and
s
working condition
a
ted
tia
ini
has
C
WO
UF
the
ht,
rig
thbir
's
son
per
ry
eve
and dignity which is
national consumer boycott against all California table grapes.
to
le
ugg
str
ir
the
in
s
er
rk
wo
rm
fa
the
aid
to
d
The UAW, fully committe
y
ll
ra
mo
and
y
ull
htf
rig
are
y
the
ch
whi
to
e
tic
jus
win that measure of equity and
ss
pre
and
n
joi
ly
ive
act
to
es
ili
fam
ir
the
and
entitled, urges all its members
or
n
ow
gr
pes
gra
a
rni
ifo
Cal
t
ins
aga
t
cot
boy
er
um
ns
vigorously the national co
the
,
tly
sen
Pre
s.
ike
str
are
re
the
om
wh
t
ins
aga
s
processed by unfair employer
-ts
duc
pro
o
gi
or
Gi
Di
of
ion
ept
exc
the
h
boycott is against all California grapes wit
nt
age
g
nin
gai
bar
the
as
WOC
UF
the
ed
iz
gn
co
re
DiGiorgio has
"Hi-Color' label.
d,
te
ma
um
ns
co
n
bee
has
t
en
em
re
ag
ng
ni
ai
rg
ba
for their field workers and a collective
opeiu42
July 15, 1968
|
P
||
oN.
Walter
P.°
Reuther,
INTERNATIONAL
President
UNION
UAW
|
THE
INDUSTRIAL
AND
INSTITUTE
OF
LABOR
UNIVERSITY
OF
MICHIGAN
e
WAYNE
RELATIONS
STATE
UNIVERSITY
TO:
1. ...Lrwing Bluestone
FOR
ACTION
AS
INDICATED:
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Per Request
REMARKS
For
FROM _
Ronald
Form
8003
your
W.
information,
Haughton
DATE
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COLLECTIVE
FOR AGRICULTURAL
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EMPLOYEES
A Presentation by Ronald W. Haughton, Co-Director, Institute
of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Michigan -
Wayne State University to the Annual Conference of the
Mediation Agencies and the International
Association of Labor
Alberta,
setting into the specifics of Collective Baryaining for Agricultural
Before
workers,
Banff,
Organizations,
Labor
Association of Government
Canada, July 10, 1969
I will give you a summary picture of the work force in the United
but my experience
has
In this country there were more than three million hired workers
who
States.
[I would like to include the Canadian
story,
been limited to the United States.
did at least some
This meant that employment-wise
labor in 1965.
farm
farming was one of our largest industries
construction.
In 1964,
two million people worked
year round earned an average
migrant
latter year,
workers.
more than 25 days on
300,000 who worked the
In 1965,
fell to 351,000
This number
the migrant's total wage income of $1,580.
half of all the migrants,
facturine was
some
of $2,500.00.
the averase
non-farm
income
hourly waze
and board was
some
in 1956.
In this
included $1, 046.
$1.23.
was
For more than
sreater than farm
for production workers
$2. 71, while the comparable
did not get room
there were
from non-farm work.
received from farm work and $534.
In 1966,
The
$933.
farms and earned an average of
436,000
- almost as large as building and
income.
in manue-
rate for all farm workers who
In the South,
118,000 migrants
oO
earned an average of $8.35 a day.
Where the wage
income,
rate was
based
In the West , the average
on a combination
of farm
was $13. 80.
and non-farm
migrants averaged $2.50 a day more than did non-migrants.
Of the 123,000 migrants
who headed
than half of all the migrants were
under
a housenold
24 years,
(incidentally,
and men
more
outnumbered
women by more than two to one), they had total wage income of about
$2,800.
(Three-fourths
from
171 days of farm work).
these households averaged almost $1,000.
non-farm
know
work.
an average
individual.
These
income
from
does not always
feet were
some
members
of
100 days of farm and
figures are of course all averages.
As you
describe the plight of a particular
They tell the story of the man whose
and whose
Other
in a furnace.
On average
head was in a refrigerator
he was exposed to a com-
fortable temperature.
Less than 6 per cent of our work force is on the farm.
productivity increases
increase
in demand.
at about 5.5 per cent a year,
Given
this
situation,
plus
cent a year.
years
ago
[I observed
visits to farms
that our highly productive
to the Russians.
productive
on some
with only moderate
increased
follows that the work force will continue to decrease
Cveral]l farm
technolocy,
it
an estimated 4 per
in the Soviet Union a few
situation was particularly distressing
They simply have not been able to lick their farm
problem.
It is only in recent years that they have
reached
a
ee
ce
for
k
wor
ir
the
of
t
cen
per
50
n
tha
s
les
ing
eth
som
ng
bei
re
the
position of
on farms.
In the foreseeable
future,
because of the manpower
alone,
crunch,
.
U.S
tie
n
tha
e
rat
ter
fas
a
at
se
rea
inc
to
ed
ect
exp
be
can
farm wages
This is without even consideration of union organizing pressures.
average.
that was
made
workmen's
to their needs.
compensation,
example,
althouch it is still minimal,
a Federal minimum
of workers
that he will press
Jersey State experience.
provisions) of the 196
to farm
wage
now applies
Just this week
for unemployment
President
insurance
coverage
on large farms.
I hope that our fellow panelist,
the New
For
(gross business of $2°0, 000.)
of large farms
it was $1.20 per hour as of February 1, 1969.
Nixon announced
in varying
insurance,
applicable to farm workers.
degrees,
to this croup.
is
minimum
Social Security,
and unemployment
are beginning to be made
For workers
legislation
However,
the exclusion of farm workers
possible only through
gradually being accommodated
wage,
constituencies.
of farm
in the right to
This is probably a political vestigial
organize as are industrial workers.
remnant of the importance
are not protected
workers
It is a fact of life that farm
workers.
New
Marc
Weisenfeld,
The wage provisions
Jersey minimum
As of December
15,
1966,
will fill us in on
(not the overtime
wage law were made
this was
$1.25
applicable
an hour,
and
ie
on January
1, 1969,
the minimum
As you all know,
went to $1. 50 an hour.
farm workers
have traditionally been hard to organize,
I
.
ng
ni
ai
rg
ba
ve
ti
ec
ll
co
to
d
se
po
op
en
be
ve
and farmer organizations ha
doubt if union membership
claimed
by the old IWW
on farms
in1916.
0
00
,
20
of
ak
pe
e
th
d
he
ac
re
t
ye
has
Like the other Wobbly
s
er
rk
wo
rm
fa
of
on
ti
za
ni
ga
or
W'
the IW
efforts,
however,
Radical leadership
did not last.
tis
un
mm
Co
e
th
en
wh
on
ti
za
ni
ga
or
again failed to establish a continuing
s
er
rk
wo
al
ur
lt
cu
ri
Ag
d
an
y
er
backed Cann
Industrial Union
started strike
actions in the early thirties.
The Post-World
and V’arehousemen's
in Hawaii shows that,
War
en
em
or
sh
ng
Lo
l
na
io
at
rn
te
In
e
th
II success of
in some circumstances,
s.
er
rk
wo
e
th
to
f
of
y
pa
n
ca
trade unionism
crops,
produced
sugar and pineapple workers
Union in organizing the
by highly-productive
more or less traditional
However,
companies,
and a short labor
s
se
es
cc
su
n
io
un
th
wi
do
to
al
de
t
ea
probably had a gr
event,
1945,
in May,
s.
er
rk
wo
al
ur
lt
cu
ri
ag
r
fo
ts
gh
ri
compensation
In any
which granted collective bargaining
in
e
ur
lt
cu
ri
ag
e
al
sc
e
rg
la
in
rs
ke
V’or
have the protection of minimum
laws.
in Hawaii.
supply
~
oy
pl
Em
ii
wa
Ha
e
th
d
an
ed
iz
gn
co
re
the reality was
ment Relations Act was passed,
Hawaii also now
extremely valuable
Wisconsin
wage and workmen's
l
ia
nt
ta
bs
su
s
ve
gi
h
ic
wa
e
at
st
r
he
ot
is an
s.
er
rk
wo
rm
fa
to
on
ti
ec
ot
pr
ng
ni
ai
rg
collective ba
Panelist,
Joe
Fagan,
chairman of this State's Department
will discuss
the coverage
Relations
Labor and Human
of Industry,
which has been on the books
of the Wisconsin law,
since 1939.
much
of collective
more than I can regarding the post-war developments
bargaining on the mainland
ll.
farms
following World
for the two decades
established,
The organizational structure was to become
in which union
strength could grow was provided,
program
Conzress
A tighter
labor market with consequent increase
of workers,
was
almost immediately
A
however,
when
%1,
1964.
as of December
voted to curtail the bracero
in
of the sort
progress was minimal.
in industry by the NLRA,
provided to workers
War
primarily
but absent lesislative protection and encourasement
California,
climate
can give us
all men of action and practical experience,
Our panelists,
in the bargaining power
in California,
established
the largest
user of braceros.
The
plain fact is,
however,
that despite
the drama
isolated strikes in various parts of the country,
boycott,
the farm
bargaining,
other than the New
Farms,
of the agricultural workers
CO's.
and the nationwide
labor force is almost completely unorganized.
Union and Seabrook
the
of more-or-less
Jersey experience
between the
and the ILWU contracts
grape
Collective
Butchers
governing almost all
in Hawaii has really been a development of
It is not surprising that unionism
industry which has generally
been
and from the NLRA.
duction workers,
with better pay and
It could be argued
real roots
of the New
the passage
Before
relating to the encouragement
of collective bargaining,
The United
Organizing
Association,
NFV’A
Committee,
headed
The AV’OC
organization really dates only from
the panel with us here today,
Perhaps
1952.
was created
Bill Kircher,
was one of the key architects
Farm
\/orkers
in 19.9,
the
a member
of
of the merger.
he will lift the curtain of history a bit for us.
In 1964,
there was
a cooperative
effort of the two labor organizations
relative to the strike in the grape fields around
properties
Delano and on the DiGiorzio
in Delano and in the Borrego Springs area further South.
period there also were
downs
was
of the AFL-CIO
and the independent National
Chavez.
by Cesar
organized labor could
with the Asricultural
not even established until 19°96 as a result of merger
AFL-CIO,
Jeal legislation
7& million.
Orzanizing Committee
Workers
Farm
would not
It still is a distinct but
million members.
effective minority in a work force of over
that mass pro-
and protection of the
right to bargain collectively.
not claim more
protective
in a community,
it either without legislative encouragement
than about three
from
specifically exempted
labor legislation
have made
has been so slow to develop in tis
working
of these last are another
relationships with Teamsters.
story by themselves.
The
Fora
ups and
Boycotts
the two companies.
of collective
Fut the union has not had
soon emerged
these actions directly
In my opinion,
.
ke
ri
st
e
th
to
al
nt
me
le
pp
su
s
on
ti
ac
as
resulted in the final consumation
DiGiorgio
and
against the Schenley Corporation
with
bargaining agreements
such relatively quick
y
il
ad
re
a
ve
ha
t
no
do
h
ic
wh
es
against other properti
success
branded
identifiable
product.
The
strike azainst table grape
owners
in California has been in effect
ed
sh
pu
en
be
ve
ha
s
rt
fo
ef
t
ot
yc
bo
al
and nation
since 1965,
for at least the last two years.
that other than at
DiGiorgio,
Hovever,
there was
not until June
it was
industry and the union made
mediator to supervise
representing
a joint request for the presence
collective
bargaining meetings.
s
le
ge
An
s
Lo
in
ng
di
il
Bu
ce
fi
Of
took place in the Federal
My direct experience
from
my
of collective
in the area
appointment
in July,
196¢,
r
o
n
r
e
v
o
G
ia
rn
fo
li
Ca
r
fo
t
ac
to
Association
problems
breakabout
e
ap
sr
e
bl
ta
e
th
of
s
os
cr
al
nu
an
n
io
ll
mi
7 per cent of the $170
a reported
stems
of this year
any collective bargaining
some ten growers
At that time,
through in the industry.
hard by the union
surrounding the development
The first meeting
on June 20th.
bargaining on the
by the American
3rown
for a federal
farms
Arbitration
as a fact-finder on the
of a union representation procedure
o
eg
rr
Bo
d
an
no
la
De
at
s
he
nc
ra
at the DiGiorgio
on
ti
ta
en
es
pr
re
r
ie
rl
ea
an
y
ud
st
to
d
was aske
Springs,
California.
election held by the
I
DiGiorgio
2s
Corporation and charges by the union that it did not accurately reflect the
for representation.
wishes of the farm workers
asked
me
to recommend a
in the absence
workers,
fair and
equitable
Governor
Brown
also
resolution of this problem,
and
of any state or national labor relations law then covering farm
to present a set of guidelines for the holding of representation
elections in agriculture.
During the ensuing two weeks,
interviewed
200 persons
some
the North to Borrego Springs
I visited the DiGiorgio properties and
in an area stretching from San Francisco in
in the South.
Without condemning
the earlier election sponsored by DiGiorgio,
an impartial agency doing the job.
I recommended,
of applicable law,
Therefore,
or endorsing
I recognized the importance
on July 14,
among other matters,
1966,
of
in the absence
the scheduling of
ion.
ciat
Asso
ion
trat
Arbi
ican
Amer
the
of
ices
ausp
the
r
unde
an election
upon
h
whic
ment
docu
oint
22-p
a
was
on
dati
mmen
reco
my
in
uded
Incl
formal acceptance
was enforceable
by the DiGiorgio Corporation and the two unions involved,
in court.
subsequent procedures
complete
After signature it was the basic charter for all
up toand including negotiationand arbitration of a
contract. *
*An indication that at this time bindirg arbitration was at least being thought
of in the industry at large is suggested by remarks of Mr. J.B. Quinn,
Master of the California Grange to a Fact Finding Commission on Agriculture
Mr. Cuinn is reported as having urged to the
of the California State Senate.
Commission:
ia
rn
fo
li
Ca
d
in
te
op
ad
n
be
io
at
tr
bi
ry
ar
so
ul
mp
co
of
em
st
sy
a
t
"Tha
so that farm strikes can be avoided in the future. "'
(Los Angeles Times, July 21, 1966)
o
-
en
be
t
no
ve
ha
t
gh
mi
h
ic
wh
n
io
un
e
There also was a provision whereby th
inthe election was
successful
barred
for a period
from
of one year
e
rc
fo
to
ed
gn
si
de
ty
vi
ti
ac
r
la
mi
si
in
ng
gi
ga
en
cotting or
boy-
recognition without
an election.
What
generally patterned
which was
a procedure
Act.
in effect,
the parties,
amongst
The document,
other things,
barsaining unit; determination
appropriate
campaign procedures;
and procedure
for determination of the
of eligibility to vote; organizing
for resolving complaints which,
y;
an
mp
co
e
th
by
n
io
at
er
op
co
l
ful
;
and boycott activities
administered
accepted
(by its provisions,
point document
required
beyond what was
very
by existing law
well,
so new
it seemed
the establishment of final procedures
in covered
industry.
contract
issues.
to the parties,
to me,
and
which guaranteed
when
it was
It provided
Given the
and that they were
the parties
agreed,
that
for settling the recognition and
m.
le
ob
pr
al
td
the
of
rt
pa
a
ly
on
s
wa
es
su
is
arbitration,
22-
they had to accept all or none) went far
binding arbitration of unresolved
not communicating
for binding
and an election to be
by the parties as a part of the entire
fact that collective bargaining was
representation
under
n.
io
at
ci
so
As
n
io
at
tr
bi
Ar
an
ic
er
Am
e
th
by
A unique provision,
for voluntary
Labor Relations
after the National
provided
contract
ke
ri
st
all
of
n
io
at
ss
ce
s;
ce
ti
ac
pr
been unfair labor
might have
existing law,
by private
did was to establish
accepted,
established
The
provision
a total procedure
nt
me
sh
li
mp
co
ac
l
na
fi
e
th
h
ug
ro
th
on
ti
continuity of produc
» 36".
of a full collective
With the understanding
the procedures
Committees
guarantee
them
collective
the
DiGiorgio
long established
that the fair,
bargaining
under the coverage
there was
House
of the National
farm operations
as far back as July 20,
testifying before the California State Senate
on
and Senate
DiGiorgio,
1966.
Commission
way to
is to include
Labor Relations Act.
different from the one taken by 30b
Corporation
reliance
and economical
logical,
on large
a heavy
by statute and by case law.
I have testified before
that I believe
was not much
of the parties,
of the NLRB
on this experience,
Based
agreement.
bargaining
My position
President of
He is reported as
in part as follows:
Speaking strictly for the DiGior :io Corporation, I believe
that the greatest single need of both growers and workers
is for legal procedures allowing workers if they desire to,
to choose whether or not they wish to be represented by
a union, and if so, what union.
It is my belief that procedures
should
be established
in
part of the NLRB
California.
*
that would
dealing with farm
create
a counter-
labor disputes
in
I would not set up a separate Employee Relations Board in the
Department
of Agriculture,
suggested for example,
Murphy.
Incidentally,
and apply certain inhibiting provisions
in the bill introduced
I have with me
by California Senator George
a copy of a new proposal
by Secretary of Labor Schultz in May of this year.
later,
but as far as I know
We
suggested
can discuss it
it has not been reduced to bill fa'm.
*Los Angeles Times, July 21, 1936, op cit
as
nat
in his testimony as the Executive
Field,
Ogden
I note in passing that Mr.
Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board before a House
Committee
in 1967 stated that the Labor
Board has had a wealth of experience
exercise of jurisdiction over
seasonal and migratory
industries,
in the
and that
that
ces
cti
pra
l
ura
ced
pro
and
law
e
cas
of
y
bod
al
nti
sta
sub
a
up
it has built
have won the approval
Supreme
Court.
and support of the Circuit Courts
of Appeals
He testified that much of this experience
Packing and Canning and Food
was developed
related to agriculture,
in industries directly and immediately
Processing
and the
such as the
He noted here that,
Industries.
"The seasonal need for large numbers of temporary
employees to handle highly perishable products is
Nor is the fact that some
not unique to agriculture.
These characteristics
employees are migratory.
exist in fruit and vegetable packing, canning, and
freezing, and many other agricultural and related
industries... ''
Back to my
DiGiorgio
or a private
private
contract,
Union,
the Teamsters
Union,
little NLRA,
an entire
agreement,
The
Farm
shop,
recognition of seniority,
and arbitration of grievances.
United
Farm
Workers
Workers
separate
and DiGiorgio did
but they did freely and voluntarily agree
to such important items as the Union
lockout provisions,
the
and DiGiorgio undertook to negotiate
collective bargaining agreements.
not negotiate
-- uncer the aegis of what was a
experience
checloff of dues,
no-strike-no-
subcontracting provisions,
They then submitted
issues to final and binding arbitration in accordance
all the unresolved
with their agreement.
4D
arbitration panel,
The award of the two-man
also agreed to in advance,
,
ed
rv
se
I
and
o
sc
ci
an
Fr
San
of
l
ge
Ka
m
Sa
on which
for a hiring hall,
things,
stated that if the employer
Agreement,
could hire from any source.
that the Agreement
would not follow land sold by the
clause.
sold all of its properties under pressure
limitation,
It was
would be binding on the lessee.
That is there was no successor
Employer.
It
might rent or lease the land covered by the
such Agreement
specifically held
if the Union could not supply the required
the Employer
within 72 hours,
employees
since
wherein,
provided amongst other
Since
DiGiorgio has
of the Federal 160-acre
subject to the contract, this
and no longer has farm employees
en
be
ng
vi
ha
as
n
io
Un
the
by
ed
rd
ga
re
en
be
latter part of the award has
very unfair.
t
en
em
re
ag
ty
ar
he
s
r'
he
rc
Ki
l
Bil
st
li
ne
pa
our
of
on
ti
pa
ci
ti
an
In
this latter categorization of union attitude,
defense,
we
respective
and in Sam Kagel's and my
simply tried to establish a model which would
union and corporate
and which woud
institutions,
protect the
not be so
it.
pt
ce
ac
to
d
de
ua
rs
pe
be
not
d
ul
co
s
er
ow
gr
far out that other
that the growers
did not flock in to be covered
indicates we failed.
The fact
by similar contracts
d.
ne
er
nc
co
all
to
se
ri
rp
su
a
s
wa
s
thi
t
tha
nk
thi
But I
At the time of the issuance
parties,
with
of our award,
and of its acceptance by the
a
t
tha
ed
ev
li
be
n
io
at
tu
si
the
to
t
es
os
cl
e
os
th
t
tha
say
to
it is fair
benchmark contract had been established.
Mr.
George
Meany,
President
-~ 13
of the AFL-CIO,
was
-
YORK
in the NEV
reported
TIMES
He said that the contract would point the way
as "acclaiming" the pact.
In the same
to new gains for farm workers throughout the country.
article
Mr.
J.
President of the DiGiorgio
Max O'Neill,
saying that the new agreement ‘will,
bargaining agreements
Fruit Corporation,
was reported as
which was operating farms for the parent corporation,
for collective
of April 4, 1967,
establish procedures
in all likelihood,
in California and other agricultural
A Company announcement quoted in the SAN FRANCISCO
states.’
EXAMINER
for April
"DiGiorgio
2,
1967,
said:
Fruit Corporation Accepts
the judgment of the arbitrators. "’
with satisfaction
Other provisions of the award were for:
and for illness or injury,
1.
Leaves of absence for jury duty,
2.
A wage increase of 25 cents per hour, with the minimum
wage set at $1.65. Retroactive pay of 15 cents per hour
|
with pay for jury duty.
was provided.
stand-by pay of four hours.
3.
Reporting and
4.
Vacations for employees working 1600 hours per year at
the rate of one week after one year, and two weeks after
three years of service.
5.
Time
6.
Creation of a special benefits fund for healthand welfare,
and
one-half for
dental, pension,
and
six named
insurance
contribution to Januaryl,
1967,
holidays.
benefits.
A retroactive
of $25,000.
by the
As of January 1,1967, and
Employer was required.
thereafter, DiGiorgio was required to contribute 5 cents
44a
per hour, per employee, into the fund, which was to be
jointly administered by an equal number of union and
employer trustees, with any differences between them
to be settled by arbitration.
7. A direction that the Employer apply to the State of
This rather
California for unemployed insurance.
unique provision amounted to a fringe increase of
approximately 2.8 per cent of pay roll.
8.
The term of the Agreement
until April 3, 1970.
As Ihave
already indicated,
was never regarded
by Sam
set for three years,
as the final answer to the
seem to have had much measurable
grape growers turned out to be quite different.
had signed
no other major
and the southern table
One year after DiGiorgio
Kern County
or Coachella
had recognized the Union's right to represent its workers
collectively.
I suspect that this led to the August,
Union tolaunch the grape
of the 1,000 workers
boycott
as we know
at the Guimara
in the nation -- walked
Vineyard
impact.
in the northern counties
but the Northern wine grape growers
its contract,
The
in the farm industry in California.
The Union has done well with wine grape growers
of California,
I have just described
the agreement which
Kagel and me
collective bargaining problem
fact is that it does not even
was
1967,
it today.
or to bargain
decision for the
At that time,
-- the largest grape
off their jobs on the recognition
grower
issue.
950
grower
The company
hired "replacements, "' referred to by the Union as ''strike breakers," and
production apparently continued.
The
Union thereupon called for a boycott
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of all Cali
The
boycott has apparently
on July 3 of this year,
growers
momentum
since to a point that
of California table grapes claimed
in the
with a suit filed
connection
gained
United
States
District
Court
in
at Fresno,
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pr
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that the nationwide boycott of
in damages.
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suit was
the complaint asked
filed under
Sherman
Anti-Trust
Act,
and
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the
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ai
an injunction ag
as provided by Anti-Trust
Law
It was filed by the Central
of $75 million.
and 81 individual plaintiffs.
California Committee
Looking back on my experience
with the DiGiorgio case and to other
situations not covered
collective bargaining
exposed,
the
it is apparent that there always
by law to which I have been
is a possibility for employers
g
in
in
ga
ar
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ve
ti
ec
ll
co
r
ei
th
t
ou
rk
wo
d
an
and unions to agree to sit down
problems,
regardless
of whether
DiGiorgio,
Federal legislation.
or not there
Schenley,
and a number
.
re
he
y
wa
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th
n
ow
sh
ve
ha
es
ri
ne
wi
California
and unions did it before 1935.
negotiating with the
Farm
including universities,
have
Some
The ten Cachella
Workers
like to work out a collective
is encouraging
State or
of the Northern
non-farm companies
Valley growers
have indicated that they,
bargaining accommodation.
too,
Public
now
would
employers,
t
en
em
re
ag
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ac
re
n
ca
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th
at
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ed
at
demonstr
w.
la
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ab
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pl
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of
re
su
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pr
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th
t
ou
th
wi
ns
with unio
- 16 when there is a will to bargain a contract through to
As you all know,
conclusion there
needed.
about procedures,
is really no problem
However,
in my opinion,
the traditional strike weapon has not
Michigan,
in farming
Florida and elsewhere.
that the real pressures
It has been
a very small percentage
Given a situation where
a strike or threatened
market pressures,
strike,
a balance
is approached,
of power
it is ripe for third-party intervention of the
Conciliation
Iam
affirmatively,
Service
just as has the
in the current
sort which
I would think that if there
if not all of your agencies
Federal
Mediation and
Coachella Valley grower case.
state
that
tise
exper
on
liati
conci
and
tion
media
the
that
convinced
agency people
have
developed
what is generally covered
They
many
either by
or even just by tight labor
or by a boycott,
a joint request for mediation help,
could respond
Farm
of the product of both firms.
a state or federal mediation agency can provide.
were
related to
boycotts of their non-agricultural products.
boycotts and threatened
goods were
DiGiorgio
on Schenley and
the
Further,
boycott probably can be effective only in special situations.
recognized
let alone
industry,
proved to be too effective even in the California grape
in Texas,
not
is
and a law
simply
industry
must remember
were their counterparts
in the settlement of conflict
is directly transferable to farm
that the parties are as new
in industry
situations
25 or 30 years
ago.
in
situations.
to the process
as
They frequently
ET
have
to discover
America
again.
all over
You will have
to be patient with
them.
or if an
If a particular state does not have a mediation agency,
one does not feel it can get involved,
existing
the parties to make
with a private
arrangements
Disputes Settlement Center of the American
matter for
it is a gimple
Arbitration Association.
Friday
and exciting work of the Center will be described
The important
Detroiter,
by an old friend of mine and former
the
suchas
agency,
V'illoughby Abner.
Bill
has brought a rich background to the center from his work with the Federal
and from
Mediation Conciliation Service,
Finally,
other efforts failing,
that a political figure,
upon,
arbitrator.
farms,
for whatever
to appoint a competent
given the present
reason,
legislation has been enacted.
standards
would
mediator,
or
bargaining
on
will be made
An approach to take advantage
compensation
certain federal standards
can be prevailed
fact-finder,
work that could be done by the state agencies would
State participation could
it is possible
state of collective
real progress
I do not believe that much
the unemployment
bargaining in industry.
such as a governor or a mayor,
by joint request,
However,
collective
and
of the good
be to take a leaf from
Taft Hartley experience.
be encouraged
until federal
by the legislative
Perhaps
enactment
of
with the provision that State laws meeting these
be given primary
jurisdiction.
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a yellow
happens
as
there
to
early
eet
gids
be
S pinot
he has dark
first instance,
but
group
Skin. —
under
rather
2
unusual
circumstances.
Normally
particular
case
an
old
Fidend
Francisco,
invited
me.
In
Employers
on
both
ations
went
‘to
Association
sides
that
without
to
the
mediate.
the
use
once
on
"tae"
an
the
spot
given
that as
Mayor
for
they
the
whole
understood
an
Trustees,
there
were
_connected
to
his
.At~- that
vias the
extremely
sone
point
t recalled
Settlement
functions.
could
us by
Settlement.
Director of
case.
I used
On
to
putting
under
a little
receiving
readily
live
that
I thereupon
the Center
He
a
situation
3
invited.
that
as
of
iuplicatiens
decided
that
However,
I should
shake
the
I could.
I was
soon
became appa-
candidate to
member
routinely
unique enough
Then it
potential
situ-
Council
as
I was
office.
atvoog:
the Eeuchers
sanction, the
as quickly
influential
and
oS
the
run against
College
Gieived
in
Board. of
being
directly
office.—
the American Arbitration
Helo:
waitin
political
when
this
and the
to mediate individual
all concerned
Mayor's
Council
fee
so secure
l
indicated.
by
Labor
in
in San
Council
Labor
where the
strike
Amxkibeeat
kan was
Alioto
boch’ sides” Bilt
agencies. . Thus,
ask
in the
by
of the
them
mediation
a "home"
Reagan,
the
for
regarded
it was
Governor
of
to
it
-
is
outside
Council
outside
powerful,
of San Francisco Labor Council off
thereupon
“rent
to
ftevers
of
Francisco,
practice
resort
Labor
San
invited
head
is
who
are very
the
I am
I ama
whose
called
member
auspices
the
Bore aoney
in
Settlement
San
Francisco,
Board of
Geater
Center
I called Sam
and
asked
Directors
for
Foundation to
the
an affirmative reply,
for’ Dispute
the
the”
Ford
nerecdc
in
of
for
Disputes
ask
if it.
Diépute.
Jackson,
if he would
the
accept
ao
and there
arbitrated traditional
|
©
o
sirementinn asin
at etl
area
nego
labor-management
Teachers Union
credentials
I urge
to
know
John
who
disputes.
and with
with
the
all of
your
the
does not
more
work
do
competent
the
the
try
back!
It works
all,
but
ranks
get
of
You can't
school
He
had
the
none!
person in
job
by
efforts,
imperative
acceptab
to le
the
our
to get
students,
society
a
and
|
simply
himself. Frequently the
gets into
the act
the better.
Try
project. ; Your friends
to be asked to
intewiatad:
of
you
it.
helpful
other
help
in a
credentials
of
with
helpers
have
but
were so
we sometimes
a Citizens
informal
den’ ery
met
many
ca
people
in-
ourselves coming
Committee or
consultants
of the San Francisco
I even looked
if he
that
There
doo che
466
anything
drawn
from
:
youreelec
that smart.
aspect
With
side
your
competence
are
involved.
dispute
hed ait
before
on
everybody
Call
assume
should work
play
became
a total community
though.
people
almost
be
people one
efforts
I put the student
would
a complex
the
However, I had no more
dispute settlement
then
would be
An intelligent
to get
in our Detroit
aside
who
It
generally will be flattered
volved
the
mine.
with
situation.
I repeat,
at
act
knowledgeable
in the community
credentials
them here --
involved. in
knew
whole of
to make your settlement
critical
I
with them.
try to
some
than I have with
you who may get
limitations.
had
College Administration.
students
Conye
typ
res
in
,
to
could
Therefore,I
at it.
It was
State College
my
a Republican administrator
were
the
the
of
that party.
street.
I
Republicans
I ama
immediately
and
with
belief that
in
dispute
a Black man
the State house
Democrat
thought
and
of Sam
the militants.
sea
Lt.:
thus could
Jackson.
He also
was
a skilled
: It was,
thereupon
money, would
a citizens
mediator.
arranged
come out
to
committee
and me as neutrals
Sam,
check on the
set up.
and
that
This
asked
us
as the person
operation.
to
report to
to work -- with
dispute
Teachers.
|
the
eg ter
_While
while
the story
the
ghetto
dispute
of
had
dispute or
|
the
,
Sam
i
|
We
the
we had
Jackson
finally
had our
4
on the
efforts
is
dispute of
the
student—
Bee cee
a fascinating
racial aspects, it. was
a farm worker
point,
thus
|
:
up
appointed
concentrating
Le
mediation
many
it.
i
credentials
and went
I'on
that
committee promptly
!
and
At
putting
not
sort
one,
a typical
with
:
and
urban-
which
I have
ee
generally
been
concerned.
interest, 54 will share
As far
cerned,
some
the
insuring
worse the
relied
that
in
stood
him
to have
"one
up"
caiied
for Mr.
! Meanwhile,
campus
each day,
on
the
I have
lights
with
txiace
the
perhaps raised
you.
OE the “etadeare
better.
your _
In
my
was con-
Opinion at least
"no-negotiation-of-demands" posture
situation which
Politically
might permanently
it
could
thingy whcakel vores.
Mayor Alioto
police were not adabuate
high
beanie:
their
system.
gain tf
now that
cous ietohatse
unstable
this process
the
situation
state
to
the
upon
a. continued
college and the
governor
a few. of
as at least
students
However,
would
to maintain
have
order.
be argued
hel reas
had to
If it
have
affect
the
chet evan
for this
conceded
had been
nat
guar
i
d,o
for
n
exam
a
ple,
l it
as
the
would be
that
necessary
would ‘have
his |
for. =
been
;
Reagan.
the
Mayor,
with
undoubtedly
was
several hundred
concerned
of his "troops"
about the
danger of
on
the_
acquiring
a
Chicago
Mayor
Hayakawa,
as
Daley sort
with
the
a state and
doubtful
believe
he
and
that
necessity
help
was
of
mass
hurt
San
or
of keeping
avo
campus
continuous
were
suggested
that
for
sind Cink
:
violence;
interest
What
quering.
one
|
The
2
woulA
second,
when
and
quite
even
an
any
cost,
situation
-- it
ts
explosive
|
accomplishment.
line statements
a
about the
acquired increased
politi-
he
ae
ue
Black
the
campus
almost
was
that
hell
was
off
ne
with citizens
whenever
us thought
Committee
to
break
-- particularly
maritime
a student
workers
drew
overriding,
was. that
we
on the students
with old
fashioned
|
think we could
sustain
from
dies
were afraid
the
waterfront |
:
continued
a eataen
his arm
The plan vab
a citizen.
into
bump
all of
liberal Citizens
thought all
‘First, and
we did not
|
.
citizens
participation.
we ended
up doing
had
the
start of the
teachers
and
students were
were
we
would
take
at one time
oe
the community
on as to how
going
prie
and
st
unems,
ployed
thought
something
adckers
oak
At
students
3
:
broke
Given the
was
hard
at
discussions
swamping
ministers
twa veacdca,
and
day,
consider
halls.
throw
oa
carded
the
we
citizens,
, back
about
from’ the
;
holocaust.
a developing
hiring
itself
open
was
the
energed.
politically.
making
in cooling off what
Black
Alioto
this in
might be helpful
loose,
police,
President
throug
the
hostat
ute.
There
members
actually happened,
Francisco
Reagan, by
she
What
helped
araeee:
Governor
cal support
image.
national figure.
that
situation,
of
|
high
Li
|
|
ese
|
|
|
in
the ultimate
dispute,
as
effect
it was
of dividing
and
shutting
in bed with each other.
the pecking
)
order.
-
down
the
At that
It could be argued that
ae
aid ty
:
concampus,
time
the
the
re=
7
|
:
latively
the
weak teachers were
The
student strike.
San
one
Francisco,
of
striking rather
students
their
the
Originally,
to
develop.’
might
be
more
_ bargaining
by public
Their
with the
‘ teachers
the
name
this
me
hour
first
wave
of
in:
blanks
coninge i
‘think
got another
they
game
were weak
nenbership)
were
were
not
days he loses
his) job.
‘
es
ae
that
They
eS
possibilities
be to
against
line
said
a
a teacher
collective
but those stu-
they wouldn't
establishment.
alse
the
aitancement’
almost oaths
each other.
have
maintain
movement
If these wae oeteike,
From
their
more
of
a
jt tiencae
On
than
the
othes
one-third
is
off
the.
hand
of
unless
strike
in San Francisco,
if one
Comaitéee:
Citizens
in blood between
an effective
California taw that
meet
declined, for: one. reason’
broadly based
of the
been
would
one.
the state
a fine theory
the
(they did’not
they could
student! wuppore: {these
tools of
AbOGK EUDpOLE ING
enough
settlement
that
than it
They
ba
solid
nothing.
T-mean
tana! te
there had
a pretty
Sacramento was
settlement
right:
Sebera
then
So far
students
and the
we
with any
the
‘fron
broken
"non-negotiable".
cerauee
of
less
Well, this was
had the support of the general labor
a
the
those blank
"if
betalge of a hard
devihide
because
to meet
was
employees.
were
teachers.
teachers
eligible
or
view,
or another,
a student
talk about
demands
Jackson
The
to
or
sard
The iaforual
Presumably
dents wouldn't
of
my
relationship was
it was more
amenable
settlement.
saint
me, -
they've
student-teacher
not until after
began
_with
to
During
on
us."
need
It was
said
us out,
think they are going to sell
They
thisy
knew
leaders
opportunistically
the
they
even with the
work
that law had’to be
for
five
bent, and
@
ecahevs
the
had
simply
| they
ced:
they
felt
‘Prior
to
to
ask me
cask
on
seas
could
Eney
_ days
for
- layed
Council
Labor
not
-
the
a week
about
the
of
membership
the
at
ths
en
ero
wi
indicat
efforts),
:
-*
and
to
Joris
lo
|
Union on these
|
“not ‘be teacher
posal.’
| at
least
‘students
“This
Executive
was
|
points,
;
strike
the
3
with
In the course of doing
oe
for the| record.
demands was 4
really
|was
basic
the
do
:
that
strike
setciement
student
to
teachers were forced
dedenars
would
problems
accept
hours,
wages,
the
eeu
the ‘boat
one. ©
favor of
a problem of
have
that
in
sich
OL: all
failure
understanding
‘The
issues.
Board
The
on the day the
meeting
teachers
He. Soposed
weren't
really
file
ategil ens,
the
said that
a delegate
rank and
labor
(this
start
would vote
|
or.
whether
a strike.
support
to
de-
Francisco
San
anybody" S guess
was
it
Here,
vote.
Council
Council
Finally, at the
) was ‘scheduled
for
membership
issue
the
of
by referral
be
might
whole
to the
:
6.
sanction
eer
any
in
that,
indication
was. shes
There
set
tentatively
strike
the
Lin
January
for
;
a few
delayed
could be
if it
that
felt
‘They
auectnl
any —
I couldn’ t stall
if
see
me to
ask
would
their part,
ta
sapcensatacives
“hua
small
my
use
Trustee
vote.
a favorable
to encourage
privately
me
see
would
teachers
the Council,
by
gotten
to formal
granted.
not
were
the sanction
if
ha buelie
could win
cine
of the
side
other
On’ the
of ‘Trustees
Board
the
equation,
|
Francisco: Labor
the ‘San
from
ee
strike
have
to
strength
ecouei
lave
didn't
that
They felt
alone.
it
to do
pro-
this
—
,
ts
en
ud
st
e
th
om
fr
e
os
lo
SO . they had to ‘cut.
to that
time “the
Union strike
beginning
issue.
of ‘the end
Oe
satisfactory
of
the
_
for the
ni
resolution
hve
students.
tanita
ahem hee dimenenneinany met peer
Negotiations
TOMI
nel Re NS eR RD
ae e
eet Sag neo et
etn rm n
sear eyecio
°
Ry
*
|
EH
Sennett,
a ee
(for the record,
settlement
for
the term was "meet and confer")
the
teachers
of agreement.
on Jemity
When the
me
they
- felt
President
wrong.
the
to meet
"Ron,
of
out
public
of
the
opinion,
public
stayed
One
the
drag
them
relations
in the
will
as
meet
deadiine
a chatiee
to
by
a memorandum
to
apparently
believed
his
get
was
ell
head:
having
going to
the
experience,
their
either a
Then,
from all
over
iueich
with the
:
-- who
the
became
final
Then
jumped
i
,
settlement
I can't
refusal to
favorable
say any-
it becamea
out
eeat
who: would
first.
In
eith the
settlement, or at
least
Trustees said
(Labor Council,
S
settlement
teachers
-The
|
Thay were
chicken out;
ecudenta
that
in
students?
listen."
and
victory.
soph.
u
they.
the Trustees.
Trustees
inv accone Heh tas
who
for
Well,
the Trustees
Just
with Jackson
Trustees.
with
t vayepber
sa
to y
these
first?
of
they
them to
say anything.
car
teacher
next
we
the
a0 over
influence
relations
‘movement.’ The
of the
labor
what
through lack
The final
labor
for
not meet
them to
che! pegienes.
I said, "Don't
‘Trustees, lost
*-a
made
with
because
allow
became
with
they would
meet only
good shape
donttractive
said,
battle
my
Saturday
that
of the San Francisco section of
thing."
jump
pretty
were
cabedinvable
he
in
woud
Arrangements
‘Chairman
when
bie
would not
state
communicated
|
Hayakawa
following
the
that
were
were
21..
students announced
said
they
continued and
leading ‘to separate |
were
was
very
Brustecs
to me,
"negotiated"
humble
dida't
looking at
the
about
with the
San Francisco
their position
even want
to meet with
solid front of
Building Trades, Longshoremen, and
and
them.
Setabliched
Teamsters)
across
_
table "I don't
‘the
we have
to satiety
finally
wovked
the
out
- settlement
finally
enabling
absent an
‘imagination,
was
put
moral
here
they
is
that,
even
said
expertise
with
will,
good
problems if
their
to...
will.
really have the
oe
|
try.
The
However,
it
the
amnesty issue
employment status
for
td
The DiGiorgio
finder for
|
appointed
by
the Governor
help
of
techniques
law;
so
we wrote
on which
a dispute which had
of California, we
What
in collective
we
I worked
involved
of people
the American Arbitration
developed
a law.
dispute
number
of
a settlement
accomplishing
I was
workers
farm
a maximum
getting
Msiatter of
aud
ictay
George
a
—
| Nathan Hare.
de-
specific
and regarding
wenbers,
faduley
their.
soak oF
me the
geedlable
on
lost out
They
: strength.
mands for
kawa.
t Hayad
te
iden
in
by Pres
appo
was
than what
ne-
agreement
a written
have
They
committee
faculty
them less
gives
out.
lost
effectively
students
gotiated with a select
After
The
of
people
searute.
resolve
can
into effect.
the
but
process,
i. Was a complicated
law
California
of the
nature
ES
Because
the teachers.
to
favorable
a settlement
eroteselonein.
The
table".
those four foes across the
put
as
really did
again,
Association
a packet
was to copy
was
rt
ot
& Geans
racial-ethnic
bargaining.
_ portions of the National Labor Relations Act
overtones.
as the
together with the —
There
court
of
and
law...
the
farm
workers signed
it
as a
wasn't any
the relevant—
Then
into a private contract.
contract
enforceable
in
|
fact-
|
‘DiGiorgio
Ls
but
this thing,
think about
teachers
those
care what
a
One
only
strength
of
each
fighting.
, There
a
were
If
was
through
side is
only
conducting
a "dream"
a national
product
: $250 000,000
annual
gross
brand
_ that
bite
was
market
principle
people
*. You
could
to
might
oo growers.
himself
the DiGiorgio
brand,
the key
think after
what
I just told
goodwill
ticket.
carrying
on
bleeding to
in
The
in
farm
products,
otestion
Giorgio
is
|
futility.
ae.
workers
ane
just
businces
OE
DiGiorgio
on
|
tha
S & W.
apparently
to
The
a strike
death
hard
Sesided
the
you
fact
|
shelves
of. |
with the aid of
some
the
and
back on.
corporation
settlement.
farm
Chavez
to
workers
was.
thirty ‘other
He had
to get
aitustion was
the patties
we accomplished
it
Chavez
settle.
Well,
ve
shelves,
satisfactory
however,
against
Finally,
get
that the
is,
the
the
from
and had to
dispute was a new kind, with
to
a mutually
industry.
the area,
taken off
it's
the farm
in
tired of
effort
of the
the go-sign
find
was
5%
is
brand taken off
brand
was
a med (aces:
Benpleor
premium
a cheaper
own
an
the
It was explained to me as a retail
to do
5 beachhead
far
have this
I had
he was
He too
Di
that
their
only
when
each
is
DiGiorgio
of the
concerned
written
iene
buying
all
oe
afferd to
an expensive
I had
have
ac etas
of
if
so
was
All
coast to
not
when
DiGiorgio’ dispute.
n bopente
after super market.
that
. DiGiorgio
the
this
the corporation.
when
from
could
get used
move.
cas
instituted
is’ simply
wiper
, order
took
balance and
cccounter fae
of
like
the power mediation
boycott of
ceteey
The
has
of power in
The
|
arrangement
reasonably in
one side
a balance
grapes.
=
puts
and of
a séttlement.
made to
3 number
’ Although
all so
ofr
rac
t
ial
sand ethnic
—
take
~ nuances
(Mexican Americans,
volved)
it
was
worked out
‘type disputes.
I have also seen
and
Liggett
the
: with
Myers
union.
to boycott
The
key
Liggett&
to
figiine
by the
parties
buy
of Liggett
that was
leading
While
tinued.
stantial
and
why
in settlement of
a:
i
type dispute.
aud
Gournsaiy
segregated
racially
two
uoite |
seniority
of
integration
racial
to
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grant to
they work
to
workers.
a
to the
ints
less
bargaining going was
years
of hard
in
they voted
to
authorize
seniority
in wy (opinion
the threat of
the
big
in
the
already
the working
they get
the
units
cities.
and fact-_
of
payment
-- they
boycott
of ‘the
had
to
was the key
|
settlement.
projects
than
a
his threat
negotiations
integrate the
how
tor thes
there was a meeting:
of the Board
paccielpacias
check
for
and
ultimate
been
In addition
lawyer
Chesterfields,
two
than
& Myers
the
realigttc
and is me,
necessary
off the white
_ factor
result
cigarettes,
more
afte
that
money
getting
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and
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its threat
head of CORE, was the
subsequent
the
point,
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in
po
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itself
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local unions.
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proved
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ago I
years
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boycott
the
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not
did
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in-|
applying tried and
:
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all
ions
has
bargaining
racially based collective
finally
play.
power
effectiveness. - It
its
for
respect
concerned:
techniques.
cogent
the most
probably
all
Japanese
and Anglos were
Labor Relations
National
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was
by
bargaining
collective
_ tested
Phillipinos,
action,
ouk research:
mentioned,
we have
poor
has coax
a sub-
survive,
how they
on welfare.
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work,
completed —
of
and
job status
the
achieve
to
latter
the
core
city
was
notes.
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do see
these
at ‘ald
reminder though that I should report some failures.
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struck
also
of professionals
with a group
work
employment
Sane 4
g_ te whole:
Federal
out with the
when
government,
ratios.
look at
time —
my
years before
was several
testing. I
it to
get
I tried to
the taking of a new
regarding
a
“I struck out with the
of increasing apprentice
matter
the
ones
trad
building
Cleveland
generally
worker.
a semi-skilled
tine looking
wasted
certainly
I've
of
be
to
proved
the
in
unemployed. poor
the
of
dacicebien
The
modest.
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aspirations.
employment
his
economic status
of his
in terms
the ghetto worker in Detroit
a profile of
‘there.
cok have
now discussed
the voluntary
disputes
a few
racial-ethnic
type
it
settlement process as
’
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contribution
fat. abl
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process.
by
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community
consider
now
what
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conflict
towards
there is
into
it.
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yourselves.
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his
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language
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and
accepted,
get
parts
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a premium
on
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the
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of a person
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some lists
some pros together.
effective
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the disputing
of possible
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hate
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anonymity.
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substance are. theirs. | Your credit
together
to do.
try
don't
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of effectiveness
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the cities.
resolution in
real
e a
maks
canor
direct
;
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the
of
effectiveness
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erdo.
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the field is wide open and that you
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highest
to the
that
know
we
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disputes.
relating
substantial on-going research
is
there
to
applied
been
, |
parties
can be
mediators
and
think
Bo
that
is to
.
the
in accomplishment.
fact-finders.
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get
_
have such
Dispute
ee,
a liin
st
this
Settlement of
will be glad
to
Black
on-it.
people
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may
knowing
not
‘another
| _ know
you
where
are
effort
such
Detroit
and
obtained
Washington,
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to
source
tnede
Heme
catch one!
power
you
can
build up
the
highly
hard
the’ combined
either.
peaceful
Eaivecn Landlords
two cities.
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Settlement
DsCs
Center, 1819
i
S
you
who
consider
disputes
are
on
campuses
joining
forces
which
with
settlement procedures.
will
find
out,
of
don't
have
to
but if
your
_
need
that are
and
only
of
in
it;
the
available
settlement procedures
name
plegetes
to
procedures
out in
he
that
people.
been worked
from
you
You
have
to
_
unions.
successful
knowledge
agreements already
Clevelaad.
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competent
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settler
eakts
settlement
Sioue
Washington,
representing
but
can be
effective
Promote
as
lawyers
dispute
credit
and
disputes
Program.
and
on
give
new
in
that there are
towns,
sometimes
draw
sure
they
Center for
ee
broker
That's
Be
The
Association
ig liberal
to
afraid to
in
a list.
i
others.
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negotiations,
situations
| centers should
. community
be
several
of
is.
be
Cities
conflict
grbikcdcicn
:
power
involved
the Model
prepare
effective
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should
Get
in
one
a team player
community.
i
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the
American
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tricks
city.
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and. in
Cooeffectiva
the
To be
the
help you
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city
tenants.
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this iactee
agreements
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have
ongoing industrial
the people
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there to
relations —
develop
on in; the water's
fine.
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_
UNITED FARM WORKERS
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
AFL-CIO
P.O. BOX
CESAR
ee
LARRY
ITLIONG
ASST. DIRECTOR
COHEN
ATTORNEY
AT LAW
DELANO,
CALIFORNIA
93215
GEORGE MEANY
PRESIDENT
ADMINISTRATIVE
805 725-1314
CHAVEZ
JEROME
130
HIRING
725-8661
MEMBERSHIP,
725-0375
ACCOUNTING
725-0161
SERVICE CENTER
WM,
HALL
F.
SCHNITZLER
SECRETARY-TREASURER
WILLIAM
DIRECTOR
OF
L.
KIRCHER
ORGANIZATION
8
6
9
1
t
s
u
21 Aug
Mr,
Irving Bluestone,
United Auto Workers
8000 East Jefferson St,
Detroit, Michigan
Dear
Mr,
Bluestone,
As the harvest season approaches
its peak the United Farm Workers
Organizing Committee is busy preparing for a show-down with the growers,
We have recently extended our grape boycott to several new cities all
over the United States and the tardiness of this letter is due to our
current heavy work-load,
As we are faced with intensified grower opposition to the boycott--recent activity in Detroit demonstrates this--we
are increasingly appreciative of the accomplishments we have been able
teal
5
to
make
so
Your
far,
help
to
our
representative,
Miss
Lupe
Angquiano,
has
been
inval-
uable,
The boycott tactic requires that we make an appeal to the consuming
public to bring pressure on the growers and a strong stand. by:well-known
city officials goes a long way to convince people of the justice of our”
cause,
Miss Anguiano has told me of your talk with Mayor Cavanaugh about
the problems we have had in organizing farm workers,
The Mayor's vigor-_
ous support of our. boycott indicates how effective your efforts were,
Thank you so
Support,
We hope
able
us
to
attain
much
that
for helping us
your continued
justice
and
dignity
Viva
to make Detroit a center of b ycott
commitment to our struggle will en=
for
the
la
farm
causa!
worker,
Intec-Office Communication
August
29,
1968
5
To
From
Sub ject
I wish to advise that Cesar Chavez if planning on visiting Detroit
October 9th and 10th.
The purpose of his sfop is related to the national
consumer boycott agains# California grapesfand in that respect he will
be seeking to revitalis é old and current support as well as soliciting
I have had conversation with Miss Lupe Anguiano (UFWOC
Rep. in charge of the Detroit boycott) and thus have been informed that
the UFWOC will be looking desperately for continued and increased UAW
support.
Miss Anguiano expressed hope that a press conference which
would include both you and Cesar and possibly several others could be
_ arranged during Cesar's stay.
Also itis my understanding that a local
farm workers committee will be created for the purpose of planning
pe
"Cesar Chavez Day'' and invitations will be extended to you, Senator NY
Ted Kennedy and Archbishop Dearden to serve as honorary chairmen.
{
The objective, of course, is to procure financial aid which the uFwoo/
sorely requires.
I have stated the foregoing in generalities in as much as I have
only had a preliminary discussion with Miss Anguiano, however, I felt
you should be made aware of the dates (October 9-10) and some of the
things those involved will be attempting to arrange.
MLK:
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Irv
Jim
Bluestone
Ogden
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,
/ UNITED FARM WORKERS
P.O. BOX 130
Ne eat
se
LARRY
ASST.
(313)
§\IQ
(NIGHT)
_
DIRECTOR
East
Dear
Mr.
CALIFORNIA 93215
WY
(9
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+
GEORGE MEANY
sv aulew
WM. F, SCHNITZLER
SECRETARY-TREASURER
WILLIAM L. KIRCHER
571-2550
DIRECTOR
224-4836
OF
ORGANIZATION
September 10, 1968
Mr, Irvin Bluestone
International U.A.W.
8000
DELANO
MICHIGAN BOYCOTT OFFICE
10905 SHOEMAKER
DETROIT, MICHIGAN 48213
:
ITLIONG
CIO
AF-L
COMMITTEE
G@RGANIZING
Jefferson
Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48214
Bluestone:
Enclesed
is the breakdown
Thank you
again
of the
for the help
U.F.W.0.C.
U.A.W.
has
given
I forgot to mention that I also appealed
The bills that the
financial assistance.
Mr. Russ Leach made a special
been paid.
hopes
Viva
to receive
La
enough
LA img
Mike
the two
Causa}
Lape Anguiano
United Farm Workers
ec:
to cover
Klein
Organizing
Committee
Michigan
Boycott
@ffice.
us.
the Michigan AFL-CIO office for
Boycott has incurred so far have not
appeal to Wayne Ceunty AFL-CI® and
thousand
dollar
statements.
NECESSARY
BUDGET
FOR DETROIT
BOYCOTT
OPERATION
COST OVER 3 MONTHS
ITEM
300.00
$
Rent
@ $ 100/mo.
Telephone
@ $ 200/mo.
600.00
Rental ef Mimeograph
@$
50/m.
150.00
Rental of Typewriter
@$
30/mo.
90.00
@ffice Supplies
@ $ 200/mo.
600 .00
@$
Postage
Salaries
@$
for Staff:
Office Mgr./Secretary
Organizer
100.00
$ 100
Office Fixtures
Utilities
225.00
|
75/mo.
180.00
60/mo.
“ee putt LA”
@ $ 600/mo.- meeitepo
@ $ 600/mo.
1,800.00
1,800.00
UNITED FARM WORKERS
130
P®. BOX
CESAR CHAVEZ
=
carry ituions §=
ASST. DIRECTOR
DELANO,
MICHIGAN
|
AFL-CIO
COMMITTEE
ORGANIZING
,
CALIFORNIA
BOYCOTT
93215
GEORGE
OFFICE
PRESIDENT
10905 Shoemaker
WM. F. SCHNITZLER
Detroit, Michigan 48213
571-2550
(313)
2
(night)
August
SECRETARY-TREASURER
WILLIAM L. KIRCHER
224-4836
29,
MEANY
RESTOR OF Saeeer
1968
Mr. Walter Reuther, President
United Automonile Workers of America
Union Solidarity House
8000 E.
Detroit,
Dear
Mr.
Jefferson
Michigan
Reuther:
I can only begin this
able support that you
both
in terms
boycott.
of the
letter by first thanking you for the immeasurhave given to the organization of the farmworker,
"Huelga”
in California
and
now with
the nationwide
er
Aft
e.
pac
d
goo
rly
fai
a
at
ng
alo
ing
mov
was
t
cot
boy
the
t
Here in Detroi
and.
tt
Sco
at
Gre
k,
Jac
mer
Far
the
g,
tin
fle
lea
and
ing
ket
pic
al
nti
substa
Chatham chains stopped their grape orders.
¢
Since then, however, we have been unable to maintain the necessary number
ch
chur
and
n
unio
by
ted
era
gen
rest
inte
ial
init
the
of
Much
ets.
of pick
has
e
ther
tion
addi
In
off.
worn
has
ity
lic
pub
good
ly
fair
and
rts
effo
been increasing pressure from the Greater Detroit Board of Commerce,
oit,
Detr
ter
Grea
of
ers
Deal
Food
d
ate
oci
Ass
The
cil,
Coun
The Food Industry
from
es
stor
n
chai
the
keep
to
on
ati
oci
Ass
ers
Deal
Food
and the Michigan
ous
obvi
the
and
ity
lic
pub
ing
ult
res
The
rs.
orde
e
grap
cancelling their
boythe
dit
cre
dis
to
s
ial
tor
edi
per
spa
new
r
othe
and
2
nel
efforts by Chan
.
bly
era
sid
con
ic
publ
the
with
on
iti
pos
our
ed
ken
wea
has
cott
of
rs
de
or
all
ng
pi
op
st
for
e
Dat
et
rg
Ta
the
“Cesar has set September 9, as
are
we
t
tha
es
ti
ul
ic
ff
di
the
of
w
vie
In
.
table grapes from California
,
er
og
Kr
P,
&
A
,
ts
an
gi
the
le
ck
ta
to
e
hav
ll
sti
we
having and the fact that
Wwe
e.
dat
et
rg
ta
s
thi
t
mee
ly
ib
ss
po
ot
nn
ca
we
,
er
ck
Bi-Lo, and Wrigley-Pa
e.
dat
et
rg
ta
s
thi
by
not
if
n
eve
pe,
gra
the
are, however, determined to stop
k
wor
s
thi
dot
to
ed
ar
ep
pr
am
I
and
s
ce
ur
so
re
and
k
Tt will take a los’ of wor
and
find
the
resources.
y
ar
ss
ce
ne
y
ll
ta
vi
so
is
h
ic
wh
,
ce
fi
of
t
ot
yc
I have already opened a central bo
to
d
ge
na
ma
so
al
ve
ha
and
ty
vi
ti
ac
of
l.
ve
le
the
te
na
to increase andco-ordi
ze
ni
ga
or
lp
he
to
hs
nt
mo
e
re
th
for
on
rs
pe
f
get donated a salary for one staf
to
y
ar
et
cr
se
and
on
rs
pe
f
af
st
re
mo
one
ed
I will ne
pickets and publicity.
oft
ot
yc
bo
r
ou
of
n
io
at
er
op
the
for
et
dg
bu
a
up
I have drawn
fo the job.
aped
ne
ll
wi
We
.
er
tt
le
is
th
to
it
ed
fice for three months and have attach
proximately
$5,300.00
to cover the two
salaries
and operating
expenses.
Page
2
Although I am aware of the generous support that the UAW has given for our
entire operation, I cannot hesitate to once again call on you for help, because I know you care and tmderstand our struggle.
We neeg, and are asking
for your help to raise the $5,300.00 necessary to operate our boycott campaign.
I would
also
like
to
inform
you
that
and 10th of October for fund raising,
to the Michigan boycott.
co-chairman with Senator
on October
9th.
We
are
still
Gratefully,
:
ne 6
apes
Lupe
we
can
ed
do
coming
(for Delano)
attempting
Iaam hopping that you will be able
success of the boycott will depend
I know
is
to
Detroit
on the
9th
and to lend moral support
He has requested that I ask you to serve as honorary
Edward Kennedy for a fund raising event to be held
a press conference with you and Cesar
bg the grape boycott; we can send you
stores.
Cesar
it.
to reach
on that
further
to say
on our
Senator
Kennedy
day.
The subject
details later.
and
matter
expect
will
"Yes" to both of our requests.
The
ability to keep pickets in front off
:
(Unqueee—
Anguiano
LA :mg
P.S.
It would
be
great
Office, help us in the
could be asked to work
to have
Millie,
who
planning of Cesar's
with us on this.
works
in the
visit to
UAW Community
Detroit,
I wonder
Relations
if
she
A
diver
uses
Mush for Mola-Mola
a slush
gun
to pump
a
special formula into the mouth of the
rare mola-mola
fish recently captured
and put on exhibition at Marineland of
the Pacific
squid, jellyfish, crushed
gore.
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Intec-Office Communication
September
25,
1968
Irv
To
From
Subject
Mike’)
Farm
Workers
On Monday,
September
23,
1968,
I met with Miss
Lupe Anguiano,
Father Sheehan and Tom Turner (V. P. Wayne County AFL-CIO), to
I think it's fair to conclude that
discuss the Detroit grape boycott etc.
In an effort to take the
the grape boycott has not proven successful.
message to the union membership, we (UAW) are being asked to inform
our staff of the need to include on every local union agenda, the ''Grape
Boycott'', its purpose and significance and the vitalness of our support.
Each servicing rep is requested to speak at these meetings on the above
subject.
This educational approach is to be initiated at once and continue
It
throughout the month of October and into the early part of November.
is the hope of Father Sheehan and Miss Anguiano that this endeavor would
culminate with a major fund raising affair to be held sometime in November.
As Ihave been asked to convey this request to Walter, Tom Turner
likewise, has been requested to ask Russ Leach to approach all the other
leaders of the major unions in the metropolitan area and ask them to instruct their respective staffs to perform essentially the same task as us.
a
e
vid
pro
to
e
rag
sto
d
col
in
pes
gra
ugh
eno
are
re
the
y
Presumabl
It is hoped therefore, that the
market as late as February or March.
t
por
sup
ts
roo
ss
gra
ary
ess
nec
the
ist
enl
ld
wou
ch
roa
educational app
.
ser
rai
d
fun
ed
pat
ici
ant
the
of
s
ces
suc
ure
ass
to
or
lab
zed
ani
from org
tin
con
the
and
n
sio
clu
con
d
ire
des
the
ed
duc
pro
not
Since the boycott has
d
fun
l
sfu
ces
suc
a
e,
abl
vit
ine
s
em
se
ike
str
s
er
rk
wo
pe
gra
uation of the
raiser has become paramount to the UFWOC Rep.
Fe
Irv
1968
September
Page 2
25,
Of course,
any new boycott
educational
scheme
though the hour
I would
Jim
be
flowing
a welcome,
as a by-product
additional
dividend
of the
even
is late.
appreciate
your
(1)
Involvement
(2)
The
MLK: jh
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cco:
would
support
Ogden
reaction
of our
fund raiser
to the farm
workers!
staff at the membership
affair?
request;
meetings ?
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Vancouver
26,
fy
nl
UNITED FARM WORKERS
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Tony Mendez
316 E. 8th Ave.
September
Y
10,
B.C.
1968
Walter Reuther
UNITED AUTO WORKERS
SOLIDARITY HOUSE
DETROIT? MICHIGAN
Brother
Rettther:
I first met you in
and was introduced
might not remember
what
I
am
about
to
Delano, California,
I am a farm worker organizer
to you by Cesar Chavez, our director, though
you
.
I don't know quite how to start this letter in
ask
of
you
but
here
it
is
anyway.
|
J am now working in Vancouver on the grape boycott where militancy
is highly claimed by labor.
Even though such militancy is claimed
it seems that labor is very slow in acting anyway.
I haverversonally
explained to them, during the past two and one half months, the urgency of moving against the grapes within this month.
Even after
this on September 24, I was practically told in so many words’
that
labor could not help us.
Never have I suffered such a set back.
I always thought that brotherhood and solidarity held no boundaries.
Maybe I am naive and so is
our director in having taught this to us.
During that specific conversaétion with one of the high labor officials in the
Canddian Labor
Congress
(CLC)
your
name
was
to your leadership and ideals.
lly when you have so supported
mentioned
in being
highly
This I also respect
us with our cause in
respected
as
very much especiaso many ways.
I can't understand that I might have done something wrong with
labor
here, not when I have worked on so many boycotts in our cause.
So it
is now that I turn to you in asking something which is greatly needed.
If you find it worthy of our cause please send a telegram addressed to
Federation of Labor, Secretary Treasurer, Ray Haynes, 517 E. Broadway,
Vancouver 10,B.C., with a copy to Patty Neil, Vancouver Labor Council
33 B.
8th
Ave.,
asking
them
to
please
grape boycott lest it is to late
I leave to you.
Nevertheless if
be a strong one,
to
it
take
act.
is to
action
immediately
on
the
The wording of the telegram
accomplish anything it should
My brother Rudy Ahugiada in Montree&t and Marshall Ganz in Toronto have
told me of what you are doing for them. I certainly hope this isn't
asking to much of you.
I have a deep respect and confidence in that
I can hope for an answer from you regarding the sending of the telegrams.
(GLA
Yours,
[Png Hones
Tony
Mendez
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UNITED FARM WORKERS
AFL-CIO
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
P.O. BOX
CESAR
DELANO,
CHAVEZ
CALIFORNIA
93215
GEORGE
MEANY
PRESIDENT
ADMINISTRATIVE
805 725-1314
WM. F. SCHNITZLER
SECRETARY-TREASURER
725-8661 MEMBERSHIP, HIRING HALL
DIRECTOR
LARRY
ITLIONG
ASST. DIRECTOR
JEROME
130
725-0375
ACCOUNTING
725-0161
SERVICE CENTER
WILLIAM
OF
DIRECTOR
L.
KIRCHER
ORGANIZATION
COHEN
ATTORNEY AT LAW
August
‘©
20,
1968
\
Solidarity House
Detroit, Michigan
It is impossible to adequately express our appreciation for the
assistance you have given UFWOC in our boycott efforts,
We are especially grateful because
of the importance of the boycott as part
of our overall movement toward organization of farm laborers,
The use
of green-carders to break our strikes has forced us to the boycott tactic as the only other effective alternative,
The whole boycott approach requires that we deal with large urban
organizations--governmental,
community, and mass media--areas where we
Cc
Your help in handling these different groups
have little experience,
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and your work
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of
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available
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getting from
impact of our support in Detroit has been
is among the prime targets for attacks by
The
presentation
owe
Conference to your support
in the interests of both,
resentative, Miss Lupe Anguiano,
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people to see, a car certainly makes
easier,
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of
our
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UNITED FARM WORKERS
AFL-CIO
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
P.O. BOX
130
DELANO,
CALIFORNIA
93215
GEORGE
CHAVEZ
CESAR
DIRECTOR
LARRY
ASST.
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DIRECTOR
JEROME
COHEN
ATTORNEY
AT LAW
Ay
725-8661 MEMBERSHIP, HIRING HALL
WM. F. SCHNITZLER
725-0375 ACCOUNTING
WILLIAM L. KIRCHER
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Adnd the struggle
for decency in the California vineyards goes on.
@esar Chavez
continues his fight for recognition of
grape workers as human beings. As people—
who because they are—are entitled to live
and work without the profanations of
the past to bow their heads.
4nd one Kennedy
brother after the other adopts the plight
of these people as his own.
AAnd the
National Farm Workers Service Center
needs your tax deductible help.
ALAN
THE
KING
CALIFORNIA GRAPE WORKERS
PETER, PAUL & MARY
CARNEGIE HALL
DECEMBER 4, 8:30 P.M.
$50 TICKET
$45 Tax Deductible Contribution
First Tier Boxes
$21 Tax Deductible Contribution
Parquet Front or Dress Circle”
$15 TICKET
$12 Tax Deductible Contribution
Parquet Rear or Second Tier Boxes“
$5 TICKET
$3 Tax Deductible Contribution
First Balcony
$3 TICKET
Contribution
$2 Tax Deductible
Second Balcony
*Please indicate seating preference.
Checks or money orders payable to:
National
Farm
Workers
Inc.
Service Center,
| cannot attend but enclosed is my
tax deductible contribution for$_
WATIONAL
WORKERS
FARM
SHRVICH CHNTHR INC.
Committee for Farm Workers Benefit at Carnegie Hall on December 4, 1968
Honorary Chairman
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Co-Chairmen
Mrs. Carter Burden, Ann Israel, Phyllis Newman, Gloria Steinem, Mrs. Ronald Tree
Members
Mrs. Anthony Akers
Samuel N. Antupit
Mrs. Gordon Auchincloss
Manny Azenberg
Hon. Herman Badillo
Marilyn
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Harry Belafonte
George Baldanzi
Congressman Jonathan B. Bingham
Algernon D. Black
Julian Bond
Rev. Eugene Boutilier
Anthony Brandt
Senator Edward W. Brooke
Kenneth J. Brown
Glass
Dr. & Mrs. T. C. Goodwin
Senator Charles E. Goodell
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Green
Max Greenberg
Mr. & Mrs. Milton H. Greene
Matthew Guinan
Alan Guttmacher M.D.
Paul Hall
Mrs. Wynn Handman
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Harrington
Huntington Hartford ,
Richard Hess
D. John Heyman
Sandra Hochman
of the Committee
Senator George
McGovern
Leo L. McLaughlin S.J.
Carey McWilliams
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Maas
Donald Maggin
Rev. Daniel Mallette
Benjamin
L. Masse S.J.
Peter Matz
Anthony Mazzocchi
Rev. Howard Moody
Stewart
R. Mott
Paul O’Dwyer
Frederick O'Neal
Mrs. Patrick O’Neal
Mrs. i. M. Pei
Congressman James H. Scheuer
Arthur Schlesinger
Mrs. George Segal
Penny Singleton
John Slawson
Terry Southern
Dr. & Mrs. Benjamin Spock
Mrs. Arthur Stanton
Susan Stein
Gloria Steinem
Irving Stern
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Stone
Louis Stulberg
William Styron
Rev. Cornelius Sullivan
pee ey ORES
See
ee
Adnd the struggle
for decency in the California vineyards goes on.
@esar Chavez
continues his fight for recognition of
grape workers as human beings. As people—
who because they are—are entitled to live
and work without the profanations of
the past to bow their heads.
Aknd one Kennedy
brother after the other adopts the plight
of these people as his own.
the
And
National Farm Workers Service Center
needs your tax deductible help.
ALAN
CALIFORNIA GRAPE WORKERS
PETER, PAUL & MARY
CARNEGIE HALL
DECEMBER 4, 8:30 P.M.
THE
KING
$50 TICKET
$45 Tax Deductible Contribution
First Tier Boxes
$25 TICKET
$21 Tax Deductible Contribution
Parquet Front or Dress Circle*
$15 TICKET
$12 Tax Deductible Contribution
Parquet Rear or Second Tier Boxes*
$5 TICKET
$3 Tax Deductible Contribution
First Balcony
$3 TICKET
$2 Tax Deductible Contribution
Second Balcony
*Please indicate seating preference.
Checks or money orders payable to:
Farm
National
Workers
Inc.
Service Center,
| cannot attend but enclosed is my
tax deductible contribution for$ =
WATIONAL
SHRVICH CHNTHR INC.
WOREERS
FARM
Committee for Farm Workers Benefit at Carnegie Hall on December 4, 1968
Honorary Chairman
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Co-Chairmen
Mrs. Carter Burden, Ann Israel, Phyllis Newman, Gloria Steinem, Mrs. Ronald Tree
Members
Mrs. Anthony Akers
Samuel N. Antupit
Mrs. Gordon Auchincloss
Manny Azenberg
Hon. Herman Badillo
of the Committee
Senator George McGovern
Leo L. McLaughlin S.J.
Carey McWilliams
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Maas
Donald Maggin
Rev. Daniel Mallette
Marilyn Glass
Dr. & Mrs. T. C. Goodwin
Senator Charles E. Goodell
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Green
Max Greenberg
Mr. & Mrs. Milton H. Greene
Matthew Guinan
Alan Guttmacher M.D.
Paul Hall
Mrs. Wynn Handman
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Harrington
Huntington Hartford
Richard Hess
D. John Heyman
II
Harry Belafonte
George Baldanzi
Congressman Jonathan B. Bingham
Algernon D. Black
Julian Bond
Rev. Eugene Boutilier
Anthony Brandt
Senator Edward W. Brooke
Kenneth J. Brown
Mr. & Mrs. Carter Burden
Rocco Campanaro
Dr. Kenneth B. Clark
Sandra
Benjamin
Hochman
Ann Israel
Morris lushewitz
Mrs. John Jakobson
Senator & Mrs. Jacob Javits
Herman D. Kenin
Archbishop Terence J. Cooke
Joseph Curran
Leslie Dunbar
Eileen Egan
Joe Eula
Clay Felker
Frances FitzGerald
Hon. Orville L. Freeman
John Kenneth Galbraith
Susan Ginsberg
Senator Edward
William
John
M. Kennedy
L. Kircher
Burton
Lane
V. P. Lassoe,
Orin Lehman
Jr.
Harvey Leve
Mrs. Goddard Lieberson
Allard Lowenstein
Senator Eugene
L. Masse S.J.
Peter Matz
Anthony Mazzocchi
Rev. Howard Moody
Stewart R. Mott
Paul O’Dwyer
Frederick O’Neal
Mrs. Patrick O’Neal
Mrs. |. M. Pei
Morris Pizer
Mr. & Mrs. George Plimpton
William Pollack
Jacob Potofsky
Bob Puglisi
A. Philip Randolph
Congressman Ogden R. Reid
Walter Reuther
Madeline Hooke Rice
Dr. Alfonso Rodriguez
Congressman Benjamin S. Rosenthal
Bayard Rustin
Jane Ryan
Congressman William F. Ryan
Herb Sargent
Walter G. Hooke
LeRoy and Christine Clark
Betty Comden
Congressman James H. Scheuer
Arthur Schlesinger
Mrs. George Segal
Penny Singleton
John Slawson
Terry Southern
Dr. & Mrs. Benjamin Spock
Mrs. Arthur Stanton
Susan Stein
Gloria Steinem
Irving Stern
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Stone
Louis Stulberg
William Styron
Rev. Cornelius Sullivan
Leon Sverdlove
Congressman Frank Thompson
Mrs. Ronald Tree
Midge Turk
Harry Van Arsdale, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. William VandenHeuvel
Thomas P. Waters
Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr.
Hon. W. Willard Wirtz
Sanford |. Wolff
Eugene Wolsk
Rev. Andrew J. Young
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Norman Zukowsky
McCarthy
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$50 TICKET
$45 Tax Deductible Contribution
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$21 Tax Deductible Contribution
Parquet Front or Dress Circle*
$12 Tax Deductible Contribution
Parquet Rear or Second Tier Boxes*
$5
TICKET
$3 Tax Deductible Contribution
First Balcony
$3 TICKHT
$2 Tax Deductible Contribution
Second Balcony
*Please indicate seating preference.
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Checks or money orders payable to:
National Farm Workers
Service Center,
Inc.
National Farm Workers Service Center, Inc.
Room 914
915 Madison Avenue
New York City, New York 10022
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tickets
for
Tickets
please
and
find
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at
$
reservations:
each.
Room
515
914
Madison
Telephone:
Avenue
355-4748
UNITED
FARM
ORGANIZING
COMMITTEE
P.O. BOX
CESAR
130 DELANO,
PLEASE
CHAVEZ
WORKERS
CALIFORNIA 93215
REPLY
TO:
GEORGE
.
914
Room
LARRY ITLIONG
ASST. DIRECTOR
515 Madison Ave.
WILLIAM L. KIRCHER
10022
November
P.
DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZATION
Dear
for
Michigan,
Brother
the
25,
1968
Reuther
Workers
Auto
United
Jefferson
East
8000
Detroit,
F. SCHNITZLER
SECRETARY-TREASURER
(212) 355-4748
Walter
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WM. L. KIRCHER,
August
Walter
Dear
Secretary-Treasurer
Director of Organization
1968
Reuther
Solidarity House
8000 East Jefferson
Detroit,
6,
President
Mich,
Brother
48214
Reuther:
| enclose a copy of one shipment of grapes to Saigon purchased by the
Defense Department,
Jim Drake tells me that government purchase of grapes
was well over one million dollars last year-= and that just for South Viet
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| think the best issues to hammer away at the Defense Department is the
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worth the effort.
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We look forward to your continuing support in the difficult months
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ahead.
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as yourself can we bring democracy to America's farm workers.
know that such action is your concern.
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CONTRIBUTIONS
TO
FARM
WORKERS
Source
General
Free
World
Summer
For
Fund
Fund
School
Delano
From
$125, 000. 00
Grape
Workers:
Locals
S 4,221. 50
Miscellaneous
President's
to
Aid
Locals
08
5, 748, 59
16, 435. 26
$15,099. 73
4, 399. 93
Boycott Assistance
Disbursements
Balance
4,927.
Workers:
Miscellaneous
Grape
00
09
Comm.
Farm
From
1,514.
SI, 000.
in Fund
1,300.00
to Date
$204, 397.93
$192, 543.93
12/26/68
11,854.
Total
00
$204, 397.93
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