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...Arizona Ecumenical Council interviewed 71 non-union grape pickers in 1972. Sixty-five said they did not want to join the UFW and bitterly opposed Chavez, although many said they would like some union...
Public sympathy against Chavez and the UFW in Delano is so strong that Mayor Frank Herrara and Assemblyman Bill Ketchum have been elected decisively in recent years while they have openly and bitterly opposed the UFW...
Press releases from UFW headquarters in Delano announced that the strike was the largest in agricultural history, with 5000 workers walking off the job. But later, under oath, the director of the California Department of Employment, Albert Tieburg, reported that only 55 workers had gone on strike...
There is other evidence that the workers do not support Chavez. In the spring of 1970, 8000 Coachella Valley farmworkers paid for a full-page signed ad in the Riverside paper asking growers not to sign with the UFW...
...member Agricultural Workers for Democratic Action in Delano has petitioned the Teamsters Union for a pledge that they would not return farmworkers to the jurisdiction of the UFW...