No. 51IN ENGLISH ,15¢

"The Voice of the Farm Worker"

CARMEN RAMOS.CHANDLER page 11

THE ONLY PICTO.R.IAL RECORD OF THE PILGRIMAGE FROMDELANO TO SACRAMENTO

moving PHOTOGRAPHSby george ballis

text: THE PLAN OF DELANOmanifesto of the delanogrape strike

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YOU CAN OWN E TMALCRIADO! ! !(p. 14-15)

LE TTERS TO THEEDITOR(p.4-5)

CHILDREN OF THEFARM WORKERS(p. 11)

WINTER IN DELANO(p.20-23)

FARM WORKERS'STRUGGLE(p.6-10)

NEWNEWNEWNEWWOMENwS PAGE(p. 13)

THE ORGANIZER'SDIRECTORY(p. 25)

CAMPE SINOS INALABAMA(p. 28)

Ronald Reagan, the man who never showed himself to bea friend of the farm worker, is the new governor of~California. Next month, he takes power, and among hisadversaries--including this newspaper--there is thequestion, 'What happens now?"

The answer is simple. Nothing will happen. In effect,under the democratic system by which this country isusually governed, the new governor should not be a "Dartisan" with his own axe to grind. He must govern accord­ing to his own best judgment; he must govern his oppon­ents and his supporters alike.

If he does not govem this way, he is not very smart.If he ignores strong and important groups of citizens whodisagree with the pr-ogram he has set forth during hiscampaign, he is a fool. According to the official electionreturns, his victory was by only 20% of the total votes.That leaves 40% of the voters. to whom Reagan must listenand pay attention, because they have not voted for him.Maybe this is why they did not vote for him. The road tothe top ( and Reagan is not yet at the top) is long andrough.

And more than two million votes can make the differencewhen the hour of decision comes for Reagan. It is nat­ural that he is already thinking about the nomination ofhis party for the presidency' of the U. S. And this is hisweakness.

Besides these facts, which the new governor has surelythought about, there is one more fact: that the farmworkers know that their struggle does not allow any re­treat or escape, and that if Ronald Reagan does not showenough ability and political intelligence, one way or an­other the farm workers have nothing to lose, because theyare betting not only on their own future, but on the futureof their children and their childrens' children.

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letters to the Edit_or ....AlONE

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THE MOST EXPLOITED W'ORKERS,

ACause to fight for...

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Gentlemen:

Last evening I saw your theatre group'spresentation. And still my heart weepsfor you. May you find success in yourtrials and may you be a blessing upon thepoorer people of our nation. Sometimeswe who are caught in· the middle class,collegiate atmosphere question our ownsignificance in a seemingly meaninglesssociety. It is not until we are approachedwith life, such as in the manner you de­scribed, that life becomes pointful andrelevant, and we find a purpose.

Enclosed IS a small check.. I do sowish it could be more. But college de­mmds certain financial benefits from us,and this is all I can spare. However, ifyou could send me a record album, suchas was at your theatre group's presenta­tion, I should be most pleased.

Once again, let me thank you for help­ing the farm workers. This summer pastI had the opportunity to work in migrantcamps. It is an experience I shall neverforget'. Not even if I try. And I do try.We Americans do like to hold the beliefthat sadness is limited to those peoples ofother nations. But sadness knows no con­fines and so life goes on: some suffering,some helping.

-Very Sincerely,

Mary Jean HitchmanPortland, Oregon YOUNG FARM WORKERS

Editor:

I am writing to askyou to send to me themagazine - "E1 Malcri­ado" in Spanish. I am

.very interested in read­ing·it. I like it very

.much and hope 1;hat theday will come when wecan read in this news­paper that the injusticeshave been overcome andthat farm workers arebeing paid a just wage.

I am a mother wholives in Texas. Mysons go to Californiavery often becaus~ herein Texas they pay onlywages of misery. Somy sons make long anddangerous trips insearch of work.

When my sons leaveme I feel alone and sad.Because of this I wishto receive the newspa­per in order to find outwhat is happening inCalifornia where mysons are.

Sincerely,,

Maria Luisa HinojosaRoma, Texas

EVERYONE'S

fiGHTFriends,

Belated thanks for yourletter of November 7th andfor the fine new book. Istill hope that someonewill have the time to sendme the words of the songon the record I was curi­0us about.

I hope that next year Ican do another benefit con­cert for you all. I know

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Best wishes.

Robert DudnickLos Angeles, Cal.

ChristmasGreetings

Editor:

Dear Sir:

Letter From

Jack London's

Daughter

Yes, indeed, I've beenvery much interested andconcerned with yourwonderful, brave fightunder Cesar Chavez, for

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Enclosed is my checkfor $2.00. Please re­new my subscription toEI Malcriado, in English.It has always been excel­lent, and somehow itkeeps getting better andbetter.

With all good wishes,

Joan LondonPleasant Hill, Cal.

To the Editor:

I asked f.or literature from the Farm WorkersAssociation because I wanted to interest my sonsin joining the union. Unfortunately, they have notshown any interest, even though they make theirliVing fr.om farm labor.

This saddens me because my experiences havetaught me that all farm workers must be united inorder to gain a decent and dignified life from theirwork.

Until this happens the landowners and bosseswill never realize that the poor people who workfor them should not be treated as beasts of burden.(as they are now), but as human beings who havedignity and are worthy of respect.

Because of all this, the fight of Mr. Cesar Cha­vez is worthy of praise and commendation fromthe whole world, especially from this countrywhere he has been the only one to effectively showus where our society is sick.

I am an old man, retired from work. I am 67years old and have been a farm worker for morethan eight years, but now I am too old to work anymore.

When I was in Fresno County I applied for apension and they gave one to me, not because theywanted to help me, but only because they had to.With this miserable help one lives always on ra­tions of hunger. There have been months whenthey have only given me a check for TWO DOL­LARS AND FIFTY CENTS.

Do they think that with only this money I can pay40 dollars for rent ana gas and light bills? Thisso-called pension is a farce and serves only to

.ridicule me in my misery.I am now living in this county and] do not know

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All the best,I

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Mrs. Fred KeastSacramento, Cal.

Viva la Causa!

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I sure would like to be­come an owner of EIMalcriado and the FarmWorker Press. 'l'heform and the check areenclosed.

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·how hard you are work~ ..----------------------.. "help write the paper",ingandyouarefighting LISTEN YOUNG FARM WORKERS box. Ididthisbecausenot just for yourselves ~ - I'm a newspaperman bybut indirectly for all of DO YOU WANT THIS trade--in the writing endus. not the selling end.

TO HIAPPEN TO YO[U? I can't think of a way towrite the paper while I'mhere and it's up there.But I would like to helpanyway. If you'd like, Icould drive up to Delanoon most weekends andhelp out with the paperthat way.· There wouldbe a few weekends I'dhave to miss during thosetimes when we're ondeadline down here. Butmy deadlines come onlyonce a month.

Will you please re­new my subscription to"EI Malcriado." I haveenclosed $2.00.

Your newspaper isgreat! We laugh andcry with the farm work­ers as we read it.

I'm looking forwardto joining the secondfood caravan, along·with our minister andothers from our church.

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THE FARM WORKER STRUGGLE"- - -~ -

TH( D(ATH BlOWTO P(R(lll-MINlTTI?

Thrifty Drugs, one of the largest drug store.chains in tne world z has agreed not to buy anymore Pere I liM i nett I products unt i I the str i kei·s over.

This announcement was made just as boycott leader Rev.Eugene Boutilier flew to the east coast to make final arrange­ments to stop Perelli-Minetti products there.

The announcement about Thrifty carne following talks withthe drug owners, who agreed never to buy any more of thescab prbducts (ARISTOCRAT, ELEVEN CELLARS, TRIBUNO) until the company settles with the farm workers 00­ion of Ces.ar Chavez.

Thrifty sells millions of dollars worth of liquor every monthin California alone. Union leaders speculated that Perelli­Minetti must soon give in to the union or destroy himself.

Credit Union Membership CampaignMr. julio Hernandez, presi­dent of the Farm WorkersCredit Union, announced thatthe Credit Union has now atotal of $30, 000. 00 in farmworker savings from 542members. Members send intheir savings from alloverCalifornia where they aresafely kept until needed.

The secretaIY of the CreditUnion, Mrs. Helen Chavez,isthe person with whom mostof the members have deal­ings. The newest staff mem­ber is Bob Barron, who ispresently working as a volun JULIO HERNANDE Z

teer. He and his wife Lizhave just corne to Delano fromSan Jose to live and work.Bob is an important part ofthe Credit Union's plans forexpansion. Eventually. allfarm workers everywherewill have its savings and loanfacilities available to them.

The membership fee is verysmall and is paid only once.People who are interestedmay corne to the new officesat 105 Asti Street (behind thet:mion headquarters on Albany)and get full information onthe benefits.

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$4000 A DAY FORI SCHENLEY WORKERSPruning started last week at Schenley Ranch, the only operat­ing ranch in California with a union contract. Right now nine­ty workers ar e earning between $16 and $22 a day at the wagerate of $1. 65 an hour and $1. 50 a row.

Work is proceeding quickly at both the Poplar and Delanoranches, because the union is using only highly experiencedhelp, union members only. At the peak of the pruning in abouta month, there will be pruning for 200 workers. This meansthat about $4000 a day will be earned by the farm workersunder the union contract.

Only persons who worka:l during the gondola harvest at Schen­ley should apply for this work, by contacting Manuel Sanchezor Helen Serda, who run the hiring hall at 102 Albany, Delano,phone 725-8661. .

NYE: ABOUT THE FIRE:-----"IT WAS VERY OPPORTUNEFOR THE UNION"

ORENDAIN: "WE MUST BE----------READY TO SUFFER INORDER TO BRING JUSTICETO THIS VALLEY".-----,---- _._-----_.....---~

The Good and The Bad

ORENDAIN NYEORENDAI·N JAILED F'OR "LOCKING A GATE"

Tony Orendain who wasjailed in Texas for "closingand locking the gate of the In­ternational Bridge, " is beingslanqered by the agents of thegrowers -- specifically byRandal Nye, a "Texas lawyer"

Nye implied that the union(AFL-CIO) had started a fireon another bridge. (No char­ges against the Union werefiled) He said that the union

officials, like Orendain, wereoutsiders, liars, and ex­criminals.

Tony, who went to help theTexas farm workers severalmonths ago, is National Sec­retary-Treasurer of the Uni­ted Farm Workers of CesarChavez in Delano. The stri­kers in Texas have faced po­lice-state tactics by the TexasRangers.

The mass arrests remindedobservers of the Kflrn Countyharrassment in the early daysof the strike in Delano. Thebrutal and illegal arrestswere the same, the wageswere even lower, and chancesof success seemed as small.Opposition to the strikers inTexas is even more ignorantand brutal than in California.

fORBIDDEN R. 'IStopping the Trucks of Perelli Minetti

The battle was on last weekas Perelli-Minetti tried toship its grapes both north andsouth by truck. Their _attempts ended in failure firstin Los Angeles, and later intfie north.

In Los Angeles, a task forceof about twenty-five boycottworkers, reinforced withsome of the Delano organizersestablished a dragnet andPerelli-Minetti's trucksfound it impossible to getthrough. Here is how itworked.:

A truck pulled out of McFarland, loaded with scab pro­ducts from the winery, onFriday, December 9. Behindit, every inch of the longroad to Los Angeles, were thehuelguistas.

l'4eanwhile, in all possiblemarkets that the truck couldgo to, picket activity began.A two-way radio system was

set up with a base stationhigh in the Hollywood Hills.When the truck stopped at themarket, there were the pickets. The driver would notcross the line. He tried an-­other market. Again he wasturned back.

Desparate, he drove back tohis home in Newhall, about

,40 miles from ;Los Angeles.The truck sat the entire week­end and i t was watched everysecond. After anotherattempt on Monday morniD:git returned to McFarland,

. the liquor unsold and Perelli­Minetti one step closer todefeat.But the producers fought backThey were able to dig up ajudge to issue a temporary

'order limiting picketing atYoungs Markets which wasone of the places from whichthe 1100 cases of vermouthwere turned back Friday inLos Angeles. Only nine pic­kets are permitted and all

others plust stay 100 yardsaway from the property.Still the offensive productsare being turned back, andit is exp:!cted that the orderwill be thrown out of court.

But Minetti, unable to gethis liquor to Los Angeles intime for the holidays, thenturned to the north. He sentanother huge truckload spee­ding through Delano on Wed­nesday, December 14. Be­hind it was Robert Bustos,determined to track it all theway to hell if necessary. Atpress time he telepnonedfrom Lodi. The tru'e::k wasstill speeding northward.

Minetti did not give up easily.He took the returned LosAngeles vermouth and loaded'it into a boxcar in an attemptto send it back by rail. Atlast report the train was inBakersfield. The strikerspromised that it would neverreach Los Angeles.

CESAR CHAVEZ IN MEXICO

After accompanying Walter Reuther, the leader of the United Auto Workers, to Mexico City, CesarChavez returned to Delano, bringing good news for the strikers. In Mexico City Cesar had friendlymeetings with the Secretary of Agricultural Matters and Colonization, Aguirre Palancares and withFidel Velazquez, the leader of the powerful CTM (a federation of unions in Mexico., ,

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One of the results of these meetings was that Cesar was able to arrange the formation of an Inter­national Committee of Labor Relations. This committee will be composed' of representatives ofthe CTM, the AFL-CIO, and the Farm Workers Union and will be in charge of maintaining good re­lations between Mexican and American unions.. One of the items on the agenda of its first meeting willbe the problem of the 'hationals" who cross the border legally and come to Texas and to California toserve as scabs, brought by the ranchers and the contractors.

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Officials Fail to StopStrikers Christmas Party

STRIKERS' CHRISTMAS PARTY-------- --------- -----FEATURING THE HUELGUISTASCHILDRENS' CHOIR,SANTA,CLAUS,AND LALO GUERRERO.at the National Guard Armoryin Delano, Cal ifornia, onSaturday, December 17thstartit")g at I :30 p.m.

An appeal all the way to thegovernor was necessary toobtain the Delano Armory forthe strikers' Christmas par­ty on December 17. The A­rmory, the only building inDelano big enough for the e­V8ilt, was refused to thestrikers even though it issuppossed to be reserved forgatherings of this type.

After making proper applica­tion three. times and 1;>eingrefused three times withoutcause, the strikers had theirfriends in the cities write to .sfate senators and assembly­men.

Sacramento was deluged withletters and telegrams andphone calls. The gove~or

had no choice but to force theNational Guard authorities toissue a permit .to hold theparty. The Armory, next tothe Delano airport, was thescene of the huge rally beforethe Sierra Vista electionslast August.

The local official, Sgt. Pitts,had given an immediate re­fusal for the building. Hisboss, Lt. Rodney Harman,had also refused, saying that"the place had been left amess last time". The teamof twenty-five strikers whohad cleaned up the hall inAugust said that this was adirect lie.

The party, whose main at­traction will be the newCHILDRENS CHOm OF THEHUE LGA, will also featureLALO GUERRERO, whosefamous Corrido de Delanohas sold thousands of recordsall over the San JoaquinValley. Also at the partywill be the same SANTACLAUS who came to Delanolast year.

Farm workers and other su­pporters are being invited tocome to Delano, early onDecember 17. The programfor the day will start at Fili­pino Hall with a meeting withCesar Chavez, union direct ­or, and Chris Hartmire ofthe Migrant Ministry, at10 a. m. This will be followed .by lunch at 11 a. m. Theparty at the Armory willstart at 1:30 p. m.

Farm workers, stUdents,union members, churchpeople, and just plain ind­ividuals from allover thestate. Everyone is invited.

Without the gifts of Christmastrees, toys, turkeys, warmwinter clothing,' and foodwhich these people are bring­ing, it would be a bleakChristmas indeed, becausethe strike store is empty andit is cold in Delano.

But against the spirit of theHuelga and the spirit ofChristmas, not eve n a Mar­tin Zaninovich, a Perelli­Minetti, a Delano Record,or a National Guard canprevail.

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ector Luis Valdez.The Teatro raised $2100from supporters during thetrip. They had a total of ten.flat tires and were nearlysnowed in during the 3000

, mile tour, but they are nowsafely back in Delano plan­ning a big year for 1967.Their new record will be ,released next month--on theThunderbird label.

The Teatro, whose fame is 'now nationwide, consists ofdirector Valdez and less thana dozen 'farm workers fromDelano. Those who appearedin the Northwest perform­ances were Filipe Cantu,Robert Fisher, Eduardo Fra­nco, Bob Fisher, AgustinLira, Roberto Reyes, RobertoRoman, Robert Fisher, andRoy Valdez, a.s well as dir-

Th.e tour of the Teatro Ca.m­pesino to the Northwest endedla.st wrek when they returnedto Delano, triumphant aftermaking nine major perform­ances in the states of Oregonand Washington.

The Teatro then performed inthe great cities of Seattle andPortland for groups of workeers and at five differentcolleges and universities. Aspecial performance washeld in Portland at the Port­land Labor Center sponsoredby VIVA, which is the OregonFarm Workers group. ADelano Huelga flag was pre­sented to VIVA leadersEmilio Hernandez and JoseMorales by the Teatro dir­ector Luis Valdez.

Their first performanceswere in the Yakima Valley'where they gave their "actos"for 3000 workers in one bigrally. This successful eventwas', sponsored by Tom Villa­nueva and Lupe and Luis Gam­Gamboa, who are beginning toorganize the 20,000 YakimaValley workers for the FarmWorkers Union.

NOTICE TO OUR READERS'Ie.RY

ASMALL RAISE IN PRICEus. For these reasons-and for this work-weknow that 15~ is a small price to pay.

-The Editor-

NOW EL MALCRIADO costs fifteen cents per,issue. And the subscription price is $2.50 peryear, for 26 issues delivered to your home. Wedid not raise the price to get rich on your ex­tra nickeL We need it to enlarge our paper to32 pages, so that we can bring'you more newsfrom the valleys of California, from Texas,from every area and every town where the"campesinos" live and work.

EARN MONEY WITHEL MALCR-IADONow EL MALCRIADO has opportunities forstudents, 12-13 and older, to earn moneyafter school selling subscriptions to thepaper. If interested, contact:

We are also presenting new features: advice onlegal problems, personal problems, and i=i­gration; a women's page; contests and cartoons.And, most important of all, we need to expandour paper to carryon the fight for truth andjustice, in defens~ of the farm workers, andto expose the growers whenever they mistreat

IN DELANOJuan Bejarano130 Albany

IN MERCEDDomingo Martinez1326 Yale

IN SELMAJose Aguirre2557 1/2 Pine St,

IN MADERARaul Martinez1029 Grant Ave.

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Farm WorkerChiidrenCarmen Ramos Chandler, in the terror of her lone­

liness before the pitiless Texas jail where her motherwas locked up/(see cover) is the latest of a long 1in~

of children who have suffered because their parentsare suffering.

Irene, Carmen's mother, is one of the Texas or­ganizers dragged off the International Bridge betweenRoma and Miguel Aleman, Mexico last month. Whenmass arrests of strikers are made, what happens tothe chi,ldren? What happened to the children in Hit..,;ler's Germany? What happens to the children ofAmerican soldiers and Vietnamese peasants?

The hatreds and the injustices are heaped uponthem doubly. And the demands of a bitter struggle

) makes them grow up very fast. What happens to thechildren in Delano?

Just as they were once in the fields with their pa-

rents, they are on the picket line. When once theycarried grape boxes, now they carry picket signs.But the difference with the children is that they haveput down the grape knife for the last time. They willnever return to the fields.

When the strike is over, as it is over at theranches of Schenley Corporation, the parents willmake enough money so that the children do not need

to help. The time is not over, even around Delano,when a whole family of eight can work in the coldearly spring, all day for a ten dollar bill. But itwill be over as the Huelga spreads until there is notan acre, a row or a bush that is bought with thesweat of the children for whom this strike is made.

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ON THE PICKET LINE, DECEMBER.... clockwise from upper right: Delano, SanFrancisco, Fresno, San Francisco; center: picket captains Pete Cardenas and MargaritoMunoz

CHRISTMAS TURKEY with WINE STUFFING

Place the raisins in a bowl, cover them with rose (or anyother good, rather sweet red wine), and let them soak un­til they have become plump.

In a heavy skillet melt the butter; when it has become hotadd the onions and the celery. Cook the vegetables untilthey have become tender, but do not brown them. Removethe vegetables from the pan, and crumble the sausage intothe skillet and cook it until it is crisp.

1/4 teaspoon dried chervil1/4 teaspoon dried mar­

joram1/4 teaspoon dried thyme1 cup slivered, toasted

almonds (or pecans)Salt and pepper to taste

1 medium-sized turkey,12 to 14 pounds

1 cup raisinsRose wine

1/2 cup butter.2 chopped onions2 stalks celery (with their

leaves), chopped1/2 pound pork sausage,

cut into small pieces8 cups soft bread crumbs1/2 cup minced, fresh

parsley

RECIPES

Combine the bread crumbs, the parsley, the herbs, the al­monds (or pecans), and the wine-soaked raisins. Add en­ough wine to the stuffing to moisten it. Add salt and pepperto taste. Add the cooked vegetables and the pork sausageto the stuffing and toss all the ingredients together.

To roast the turkey:Wash the turkey (both inside and out) and dry it carefully. If it has beenfrozen, let it thaw overnight, and make sure that there are no icy chunksleft in it. Stuff the body and neck cavities of the bird with the ab<?ve dress­ing, and sew or skewer the openings together. Preheat the oven to 325 de­grees. Rub the turkey with soft butter and sprinkle it generously with salt.Place it in a rack in a roasting pan, breast-side up; add one-half cup wineand one-half cup chicken broth to the bottom of the pan, and cover it withaluminum foiL Roast the turkey for approximately four and one-half hours;during the last hour remove the tin foil so that the bird dm brown nicely.Baste it frequently with the wine and chicken broth (add more if necessary).The turkey is done when the leg joint moves very easily away from the·body.

It is cold. It rains.The wet wind congeals the

spirit.The grey sky afflicts me.It afflicts the soul, it afflicts

sleep, life itself,the heart-How I know! ­the lungs, the air.The air hangs heavy,the humidity on the windows

stifles me.And even the firecracklinginto the chimneyafflicts me;the air hurts.And I think about the brothers

in Delano;about the strong, the valiant,

the tenacious.I think about their women,

about their children,about their tin-roofed shacksbeneath this rain;in the cold without heat,their children without milk,their mothers without fear.Brothers, friends,you must go on with your

struggle.We, the comfortable,the sad; we, who have' heat,and milk and sh~lterand bread;we, who know nothing,because we own too many

things,because we possess too many

objects,we need ",hat you have so

much of-valiant friends,powerful, tenacious and strong:one cause, my friends,one common cause,soul and courage,life and heart;arms and a 'leader:Cesar Chavez.Friends of Delano, brothers,you must go on with your

struggle.You must go on with our

strugRle.

by Mireya Jaimes-FreyreGoleta, California

Translator: Luis Valdez

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WHAT YOU MUST DO NOWFill out and sign the coupon and send it to uswith $10 for each "certificate of support." (Wecalled them "shares of ownership" in the lastissue, but the growers are putting legal pres­sure on us and we have to change the name, but

..... -J not the spirit of our offer).

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';at4' eued ?ltMeta SERVICE FOR MEMBERS

This is a photo of EL MALCRIADO's storeroomIt is in this shameful condition because we can­not afford to buy a filing cabinet. All our mon­ey is spent on improving our paper and exten­ding its influence. Therefore we are not a­shamed to beg for what we need. Can you helpus? The best kind of cabinet would be a steellegal size one with four drawers, but anythingwill do, even cardboard. We can arrange apickup in either the Bay Area or Los Angelesor anywhere in between.We ar~ still badly in need of an adding macninE-- OF ANY KIND! Fortunately, our subscri­ber list is growing very fast, but unfortunatelyour staff is having trouble handling all of theextra work. An adding machine would help usto make sure that we don't miss anything oranyone. If you have one or know where we canget one, please let us know right away.

With the New Year come income tax forms to fill outand send in. Filling out these forms is one of themany services offered by the National Farm WorkersService Center to all the members of UFWOC.There will by a slight charge for this particular ser­vice. Although the deadline for income tax isn't un­til Apr.il15th, we would like for you to come in assoon as you have received all of your statements sothat we can give your income tax return full atten­tion. We will be putting a list of the things youshould bring with you in the next issue of El Malcria­do -- we hope it will be helpful. Remember: our of­fice is at 105 Asti Street in Delano and our phonenumber is 725-0161.

I wish to purchase _ subscription(s) for EL MALCRIADO at therate of $2.50 for each subscription for one year in SPANISH

SUBSCRIBE NOW!!

Manuel Sanchez and Marcia Brooks are planningto be married on December 24, Christmas Eve,at Our Lady of G.uadalupe Church in Delano.'Both Manuel (F;tts) and Marcia are full-timeworkers for the Huelga, Manuel in the hiringhall and Marcia in the EI Malcriado office.We wish.them much happiness.

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A.R.MORROW

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AMBASSADOR

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SUPPORT THl DllANOCRAPl STRIKl

PLEASE DON'T BUY ANY,

PERELLI-MINETTI PRODUCTSail these right away

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When the rain comes, the strike in the grapes in De­lano moves onto a kind of new front The lights burnvery late in the so-called "Pink House, " a dilapidatedtract home into which the expanding Farm 'WorkersUnion under Cesar Chavez has spread itself. When Igo there it is sometimes to find Dolores Huerta study­ing compulsory arbitration law with a burning inten­sity, her always-present supply of somewhat raggedchildren trying to pester and distract her. It is Dolo­res who is taking on the huge DiGiorgio Corporation incontract negotiations, without a lawyer on the scenein Delano, and without any special knowledge, otherthan the schoQI of experience. More important, she itis negotiating with hard-nosed professional union of­ficials for jurisdiction. People who don't know Dolo-

res are worried that she will make a mistake: ask toomuch; or give too much. And it is not the first timethat people have underestimated this beautiful littlewoman.

What do the people do when it rains? First there arethe "scabs": winter provides an equalling process andthere is no work for them as well as for the strikers.My neighbors, for example: About twenty of them -­mostly small children -- live in an ancient four roomfarmhouse, with holes in the walls and the roof bigenough to admit the dogs and cats. When it rains theyjust get wet, that's all, and now most of their chil­dren are sick from it. The electricity has been offnow for almost a week. Of course they want thestrike to win, but they think they are too close to themargin to miss any opportunity for work that comesalong. This is their first winter in California, andout of fear, stupidity or necessity, they have notjoined the "Huelga. "

No work for the scabs, and less opportunity to picketfor the strikers. About a hWldred strikers 'went toLos Angeles last week for a 'gate collection" at theentrances to the big auto plants and missile factories.The money they raised will help bolster the depletedstrike fund. Without the help of the AFL-CIO, weprobable couldn't make it, but their help is not reallyenough for us to make it very comfortably. Cesar isin Mexico, presumably laying the groundwork forclosing the border, an essential task if the strike is

FILIPINO HALL.where the

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ever going to really change the lives of farm wo'rkersin all California and Texas. And while he was gone,one of the old-line AFL-CIO organizers who have .:.been helping us, was tortured and maimed in the mostbestial manner by Wlknown assailants. It is a hugepower game, deadly serious, and all of us are willingpawns in that game, because the stakes are very high:not for ourselves, but for the farm workers who haveno way out if we fail.

Outside of the power game·, there is the daily routinewhich is not deadening because we can see the wholepicture and our individual place in it. Every dayManuel Sanchez and Helen Serda "hold court" in theirhiring hall -- which is a part of an old tortilla factoryfacing the freeway, a building they have to share withthe Teatro Campesino, our tempestuous indiginousactors, who are right now playing to capacity crowds .of farm workers in the Pacific Northwest. Their tourthere this month is the beginning of the "Huelga" inWashington, Oregon and Idaho. Farm workers whosee their performances will take it on themselves toorganize those three states, using the small helpsthat we can give them. The process is just as simpleand as complex as that.

While all this is going on, there are two trailers whicwhich sit in a muddy encampment on the edge of De­lano. This is the miraculous Farm Workers HealthClinic, which has actually survived since the begin-

EL MALCRIADO:::Page 22ning of the strike on.donations of time and money bydedicated doctors who drive 300 miles from SanFrancisco to Delano in order to spend a day treatingpeople who desparately need their healing hands. Inmy only professional contact with them, their volun­teer dentist fixed up my rotting teeth. The 'profes­sional" relationship was gone; here was another hu­man being just simply helping me, and together wewere part of the whole thing that is the Delano strike.I guess that is what "community" really means. Itreally works: in spite of horrible conditions, impos­sible tasks, disorganization and occasional stupidity,this saving force provides a continual regenerationfor everyone here: our value as individuals is reaf­firmed in the obvious value of the whole scene. It isbecause of this that the scabs want the strike to win,that Dolores has the strength to fight against hard­bitten arbitration lawyers, that the Teatro can soeasily communicate with the thousands of voiceless,ghost-like people who pick the crops.

In describing the whole thing, I haven't even scratch­ed the surface: people fanning out from Delano acrossthe whole country: Jerry and Jane Brown in the vine­yards of New York State; Eugene Nelson, Tony Oren­dain and the Chandlers in Rio Grande City, Texas,the end of the world, holding out against the impossi­ble odds of an open border and ruthless police re­pression. The strike is on the streets of San Fran­cisco, where our workers there -- church people,young radicals, rank-and-file unionists -- patientlywalk the picket lines, scheme their way into thenewspapers, and raise money and food. Then thereare the truck-chasers: strikers who follow the loadsof grapes ~ distributors and stop them there withpicket lines. There is the boycott: third in a succes­sfulline. This one is against Perelli-Minetti andSons, a winery and vineyard in McFarland, Califor­nia, five miles from here. Our job is to break downtheir will to fight us by stopping the sale of their pro­ducts wherever we can.

DOLORES HUERTA WITHDIGIORGIO WORKERS, MAPPING

OUT THE STRATEGYAND THE DEMANDS FOR

NEGOTIATION

And there is the principle of non-violence which per­meates all of these activities. The picket line passedthe test last month, when, after the striker ManuelRivera was viciously run down with a rancher's

WINT(R IN O(lANO

truck and crushed, they did not retaliate. This kindof thing is very, very hard to do, because it makesyou very angry to see someone run down like this.

A week later that same picket line saw the capitula­tion of the rancher, Goldberg and Sons, making thethird victory for the farm workers: Schenley, Di­Giorgio, and now Goldberg. Manuel Rivera is slowlyrecovering.

I haven't even covered a small portion of the manyparts of the strike: the always dirty game of politicsin Sacramento and Washington where we need help aswe need help everywhere. We expect tough anti­strike legislation and administration and we have tofight it in the only way that there is to fight on thatlevel -- to play the political game.

I also forgot to mention "Leroy's house." The realname is "Farm Worker Service Center, " but thingsseem to always get makeshift names around here.Leroy's House, next door to the Pink House, shel,­ters a small corps of shock troops, who are experts(like Gilbert Padilla) in getting benefits to which farmworker union members and strikers are entitled un­der state welfare and disability laws. They are alsoready to fight police brutality and in the next breath,fill out a form for someone who can't read English.There is also a credit union, and there will soon bea co-op store. We have a piece of land, 80 acresoutside of Delano, and someday it will be occupiedwith all of the now decentralized operations, and we

WINTlR IN UllANDcan all forget about broken glass, leaky roofs andheaters that don't work.

The Farm Worker Press is as poor as the strike ofwhich it is an integral part, and it is only through allkinds of financial gymnastics that it is possible topublish our little newspaper and our few books andrecords. Right now we need money badly. At firstwe were selling "shares" of ownership in Farm Wor­ker Press to our supporters for $10 each, but theranchers are always keeping the law down on us, andour lawyer tells me that this is not legal. (It is oftenillegal to be poor.) So we beg readers of the El Mal­criado to send us $10 'tokens of support, " so that wecan expand our very important work of ke~ping every­one informed about the strike, and more important,of providing a bigger and wider-circulated newspaperfor the farm workers which is their own paper.

Our address is Farm Worker Press, Box 1060, De­lano, California. We will give any specific strikecontributions to the Union, or to the Clinic, but we doneed money ourselves very badly and we are not a­shamed to beg for it because of the work we are do­ing.

And this is how ~inter finds the Strike in the Grapesin Delano, California.

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"OUR VALUE AS INDIVIDUALS

IS REAFFIRMED IN THE OBVIOUS

VALUE OF THE WHOLE SCENE"...

George Ballis Photo

Senorita lMAEDITOR'S NOTE: During the last few months we have receivedvarious letters in which our readers have asked for advice ontheir problems. These have not been taken care of because wehave not had the right person to do this. This week a new ~on­

tributor has joined our staff, and from this edition, she will be incharge of this special section, which we will call SENORITA AL­MA. Our readers can write to her, using whatever name they wishsending their letters to SENORITA ALMA, Box 1060, Delano, California. Do not worry about whether your letter is well written orpoorly written" because we c an correct the writing wherever nec­essary.

Dear Senorita Alma:

My husband, a man who before coming to California always treated mewell, never paying attention to other women, has now changed comple~ly.

He does not treat me meanly, but he is no longer so attentive.I know that he is going with another woman. My friends tell methat the laws here protect wives, and I do not want him to makea fool out of me. I thought of making a complaint in the courts,because there are times when he does not even give me enoughmoney for the expenses, because he has spent all the money onhis "new friend." What can I do? I still love him as much asI did before, but I am becoming desparate.

Rosa MariaFresno, Calif.

Estimada Rosa Maria,

I know that you are one woman, Rosa Maria; but I know too that you are athousand women, waiting patiently and suffering at home, wondering how

many times you must forgive him and forget his succession ofother women. And you wait your whole life, growing old whilehe continues to play.I think that too often you have been told.to for get. I suggestthat you fight for yourself, because he won't realize that youexist and are a person unless you do. And he won't ever comeback to you (if you really want him) until you assert yourselfas a woman. Respect yourself: make yourself attractive--notfor him but for everyone you meet, especially other men. Dontbe afraid to spend some money on a pretty dress--not for him,but because it will make.Y2!! feel better. Don't be a slave toyour house; you will be happier if you do what you feel like do­ing. Have lunch, even small parties, with your friends.Remember that you connot force him to come back to you. Youmust learn to have a life that is not a part of him. Marriedpeople seldom remember this, but they love each other betterwhen they are individuals. When he finds out that you are acomplete person without him, he will again be attracted to you.And if not, what have you lost, since you do not have him now.

ALMA

SPECIALPROBLEM

Senorita Alma:

A few weeks ago I had a ser­ious problem, and I wrote toJaq~eline Kennedy asking herto help me.

Because I cannot write wellI asked one of my neighbors sothat with her help I could do itand send it to Mrs. Kennedy.

Mrs. Kennedy wrote backhelping me in my problem, butmy neighbor who asked to seethe letter, kept it and refusedto give it back to me, sayingthat since she was the one whowrote the letter, she couldkeep it.

To me this letter has greatvalue, because the wife of ex­president Kennedy has troubl­ed herself to bother about anordinary woman like myself, Iwant to keep it to show to mychildren when they grow up, sothat I can prove to them thatthere are people in this countrythat are worth imitating, ifthey ever become important.

Do you think that my neighborwill give me the letter back ifI present a complaint to thepolice?

Senora Lopez H.Bakersfield, Calif.

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MESSAGE TO READERS:The first person thatwrites the best answer tothe problem of Mrs. Lopezwill receive as a prize asubscription to EL MAL­CRIADO for six months,free. The answer will bepublished on this samepage in the next edition.Write to SENORITA ALMABox 1060, Delano, Calif.Don't forget to put yourname and address c~early

on the answer.

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Yours,

PARLIER HELPS

(Reprint from AFL-CIO News 11-26-66)

The community of Parlier, California is not asbig or as rich as San Francisco or Berkeley, but thepeople of this town have helped the Huelga not justonce, but every month in a tremendous way for all16 months of the strike.

Even when specific contributions are not mentionedhere, the strikers of Delano remember with thanksthe people of Parlier who have helped ~o much withfood and money.

This to.vn is an example of what all towns shoulddo to help their striking brothers.

Progress in the VineyardsFOURTEEN MONTHS AGO grape workers in California struck

40 companies, determined to win union recognition and decentpay and working conditions.

Today, after months of sacrifice and dedication, these men andwomen are on their way to bunding a solid trade union movementof farm workers in California. Banded together in the. AFL-CIOUnited Farm Workers Organizing Committee, they have wonrepresentation elections in the four major grape operations as weDas at smaller firms.

And they have done it withouf the protection and machinery af­forded other American workers-the National Labor RelationsBoard. The act setting up the NLRB does not cover farm workers.So, if there are to be elections among these fiela workers, they haveto bring the companies around to consenting to the balloting. Thereis no government agency involved that can order elections or con­duct them; the workers must win the right to choose a bargainingagent, using whatever devices come to hand.

• • •TIJE GRAPE WORKERS' cou~ge and dedication have been

supported by the AFL-CIQ.and its affiliatts. Manpower and financesto aid the strikers have been provided. The labor movement at largehas rallied to the cause, including the broadcasting of boycott cam­paigns against growers who resisted a fair election procedure.

The labor movement of California has demonstrated its completeinvolvement in the grape workers' cause. It has raised money, pick- .eted, demonstrated, .and made it clear that the grape workers werenot alone; that this was a battle of all workers to help those most inneed win the basic dignity that comes with unionism and the im­proved conditions that come with a collectively bargained contract.

Other groups in the community have rallied to the side of thegrape strikers-religious, fraternal and civic. The battle between thelarge growers with their vast holdings and the poverty-line farm·workers has caught the attention also of the mass media.

• • •THE GROUNDWORK for the present surge of success in bringing

unionization to farm workers was laid many years ago. There werea number of attempts to bring unionism to the exploited and brow­beaten farm workers, but they fell short. The growers exerted theirnaked power tOibreak early attempts and the work force was looselyknit and migratory. The various campaigns helped improve wages insome areas, but the power of the growers to dictate terms continued.

In 1960 the AFL-CIO established an organizing committeethat chalked up important gains in raising wages but feD short ofwinning meanindul and lasting union rec02Dition. WbOe thiseffort in the California fields continued the AFL-elO launched adetermined and successful campaign to end the government policyallowing importation of farm workers. With imported labor re­moved as a source of strikebreakers, oreaniziul! cam~ pickedup momentum and today the UFWOC is breaking new RJ'OUDd.There is a long way to go, however, before the basic standards of

American life are extended to farm workers. Organizing and collec­tive bargaining are essential to this effort and will continue to spreadwith AFL-CIO support. But they must be aided by a revision ofthe nation's laws to give the farm worker the same protection extend­ed to other workers-the right to hold bargaining elections, fullminimum wage coverage, protection of unemployment and work­men's compensation laws. This is essential to further progress.

(From page 5)

SEND YOUR ANSWER AND YOUR 'NAMEAND ADDRESS TO: "GAME OF THETOWNS" P.O. BOX 1060, DELANO, CAL.

Last week the name of the town was Farmers­ville. The prize was won by Mrs. FranciscaR. Fuentes of '716- W. Main St., Visalia, CaL'

Eufrasio HuertaUpland, Calif.

yet how they will treat me or whether or not theywill help me.

I like very much to read your newspaper, andwhen I arrived here I immediately sent you 2 dol­lars for a subscription. If lowe you more, pleaselet me know.

I hope that the cause for which you are fighting,in favor of the farm worker, will progress untiluntil you have your deSired success. With mymost sincere consideration and respect,

LETTER FROM...

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The beauty and the spirit of the struggle does not know any differences, when it comes·to fighting for a noble cause. The fact that from Delano there has been a magnificantexample for the whole country, can be illustrated poignantly with the picture of thesetwo beautiful girls. Above appears one of the countless young students of the Univer­sity in Berkeley who have helped the strikers during the boycott of Perelli-Minetti inSan Francisco. In the other picture, there is the attractive Yolanda Barrera duringone of the weekly meetings of the Farm Workers Union.

F.L MALCRIADO;;;Pu!!:e 28" '

THE FARM WORKERS OF ALABAMA

Where, in.Order to Vote, One

Pays With His Home,HisSafety, af)d Sometimes His Life

Farm worKers have been denied their rights for manyyears because they are poor and because their skinsare many different colors. This is especially true inthe South where most of the farm workers are Ne­groes and Mexicans. In Alabama the Student Non­violent Coordinating Committee is doing a wonderfuljob of helping poor people to organize themselves to

, gain their rights. These brave people have been bea­ten and jailea many times, but they, like those whoare fighting in Delano, know that their cause is justand will not give up until they win.

Right now something is happening in Alabama whichis so terrible that everyone in the country shouldknow about it. For a long time the Negro farm work­ers there have been denied the right to vote, a rightwhich is basic to all citizens in a free country. Be­cause all of the politicians mthe state are againstthem, the people in Lowndes County, Alabama, or­ganized their own political party which is called'theLowndes County Freedom Party. This organization,like the NFWA, is fighting to gain a decent life forits members.

The people in the Lowndes County Freedom Party de­clared a long time ago that they had a right to votelike any other citizen in the United States. Theyasked the national government to protect them when

they go to vote because many people had been threat­ening them with violence. In fact a number of peoplehave been killed just~ to vote! The nationalgovernment finally said yes, the farm workers wereright, they did in fact have the right to vote.

On November 8, when people all over the countryvoted in the national electiops, the Negro farm work­ers in Lowndes County voted too. The rich landown­ers and growers had tried to stop the governmentfrom letting the farm workers vote, but they had fail­ed. Now; because they had lost and were mad, theyretaliated by throwing large numbers of farm work­ers off of their lands. This land had been the onlyhome for these farm workers for many years. Now,only because they had exercised their right to vote,they were left without any homes at all.

Besides being thrown out of their homes, many of thefarm workers who had voted were the victims of bru­tal attacks. One, Andrew Jones, had to spend twodays in the hospital in Selma, Alabama, because hehad been beaten so badly that he had his skull frac­tured.The rich landowners think that the farm workers willhave to give in to them because they have no place tolive. But they are wrong. With the help of people

(Contd. on page 30)

THE MISSION OF THE LEADERS - - WHICHIS THE MISSION OF ANY AUTHORITY -- ISTO SUSTAIN 'THE MOVEMENT, TO KEEPTHE FARM WORKERS ASSOCIATION ON ITS,

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looking Back Two Years

The Philosophy of Cesar Chavez/

Tirans'lated IFrom EI Malcriado 1;1 December 15;1964

TIlE MOVEMENT OF THE FARM WORKERS DESTINED PATH, TO DO WHAT ALWAYSASSOCIA TION IS ORGANIZED SO THAT ALI HAS TO BE DONE SO THAT THE GOALS OJTHE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY BELONG. THE ASSOCIATION CAN BE REACHED. IFUNITY. OF LIFE COMES TO OUR MOVE- WE WANT THE MOVEMENT TO DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE COOPERATION OF AND THE ASSOCIATION TO PERFECT IT-THE WORKER. THE FARM WORKERS .AS- SELF, IT IS NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN ASOCIATION IS A COLLECTIVE UNDERTAK- UNITY OF DOCTRINE, A UNITY OF ME-lNG, WHICH, BE COLLECTIVE MEANS, THODS, AND A UNITY OF STRUCTUREWORKS TO PROVIDE THE ECONOMIC BA- WHICH WILL ASSURE THE GOALS OF THESIS THAT THE FARM WORKERS NEED TO MOVEMENT. THIS UNITY MEANS THATASSURE A BETTER LIFE, SOCIALLY, MOR- WE MUST MAKE SACRIFICES, BUT THESEALLY AND ECONOMICALLY. AT THE ARE NECESSARY TO SUSTAIN THE LIFESAME TIME THE ASSOCIATION WORKS TO OF THE WHOLE ORGANIZATION; THEY ARERESTORE TO MAN THAT INDEPENDENCE ESSENTI.A.L. WHEN WE DECIDE ON THEAND LffiERTY WHICH WILL ASSURE HIM GOAL OF A PARTICULAR WORK, IT ISHIS DIGNITY AND HIS SOLIDARITY WITH NECESSARY TO HOLD ON TO IT, NOT ON-OTHER MEN. LY WITH OUR LIPS, BUT ALWAYS ACTIVE­

LY; IT IS NECESSARY FOR THIS GOAL TOBECOME A RULE OF LIFE. HE WHOKNOWS PRINCIPLES IS NOT EQUAL TO HEWHO LOVES THEM·

VIVA LA CAUSA!!

ACK 'iSSUES' of Et 1It~.Many people inquire about buying back issues of EL MALCRJADO. Many earlyissues are almost com_pletely sold out, so prices are high on the rare copies.The following selections are available:

COMPLETE SET OF EL MALCRJADO in Spanish and English, including 0special issues: $100.00COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE DELANO GRAPE STRIKE, Issues # 19 0through # 50, subscription included. 0 ENGLISH: $80 SPANlSH: $30

EARLY STRIKE ISSUES, September-December, 1965English: $60 0 Spanish: .$200 •"SCHENLEY WINTER", December-April, 1966English: $15 0 Spanish: $ 5 0"D! GIORGIO SUMMER", April-August, 1966English: $ 5 0 Spanish: $ 5 0A random sample of 8 back issues, including English and Spanish, is $1. 0A random sample of 8 back issues, all English, is $1. 50 0

SEND TO: "BACK ISSUES" Farm Worker Press,- Box 1060, Delano

# 1Dec. ,I1964

EL MALCRIADO SAYS: We salute these brave. people who are organizing to help themselves

and their fellow farm workers and we deplorethe situation which forces them to fight sohard for what should be theirs anyway. Be­cause our union is poor and because we stillneed help ourselves, we cannot send them any­thing but our sympathy and our moral support,but perhaps, when we are bigger and stronger,we will be able to help them as so many goodpeople have helped us. In the meantime, we ­wish them success in their noble fight. Oneday, we shall all overcome.

The "Crime" o-f Voting....<From p. 28)

all over the country, the farm workers ofLowndes County are now buying their own landand building their own houses. So they will beable to go on fighting until they win their rights

" •••• He came into the hall just after the stri­kers had finished eating. Nobody wanted to dothe dishes. .There was a mountain of dirtyplates in the kitchen and they were calling forvolunteers, but without success. So he said,'PH :wash them9, and he did~

(Reported by an Arvin worker who went tothe Los Angeles Gate Collection and sawCesar Chavez washing the dishes).

y .

Most sincerely,

.this thing through thehard winter months

Right after Xmas when'I get my pension checkfor the beginning of 1967I'll forward $5.00, whicnI can not do now on ac­count of going "all-out"for Xmas already

So, I am on a pensionand not able to ba activebeyond the ways I haveindicated above. Ofcourse, there is alwaysprayer, and I'll get intouch with our BuffaloCarmelites, Dominicansalso the poor Clares atRockford, Ill., for re­membrance in theirprayers and novenas. Ifpossible to carry out anyof my suggestions, donot delay, as I don'twant to delay sendingXmas greetings until thelast moment.

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FARM WORKERSCREDIT UNION

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Chr.ismas...· (Continued from page 5)

I'nstead d. saving your money on your person,or in a bank, put it in the FARM WORKERSCREDIT UNION(EI Banco de los Campesinos)and get all the benefits· that it offers. Writeto P. O. Box 894, Delano, Calif. 93215

$ $ $' $ $. $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

your rights - simple jus­tice.

I am sorry to tell you,however, . that I am notable to be active as I amrecuperating from se­vere, internal injuriessuffered in Sept. 1965. Iwas in the hospital sixtimes in 1965.

However, an idea oc­curred to me which Idon't know if you'll be a­ble to execute or not

If you have any circu­lars or printed or mime­

:ographed leaflets or ma­,terial that could be fold­ed and enclosed in about100 of my Xmas greet­ings, I'd be happy to doso -and willing to pay youfor this material. Right

.now, when everyone isabout to send far andnear the greeting cardsIt would extend the know­ledge of your cause andenlist their aid in differ­ent ways. Some wouldbe glad to forward an oc- Esther Latshawcasional donation to see Buffalo, New York

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