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A San Jose City College student inside raises hll hands in a. gesture of peace.
Senator Mu rphy, President Nixon , and Governor Reagan in solidarity headlined the program in San Jose that has
received so much national acclaim as a riot. SJCC students were there, inside and outside .
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Jose Vasquez, Confederation de Ia Raza Unida, spoke to an audience Wednesday nighf in the student union of San Jose State. His subject was the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and Cesar Chavez. " We can find no bettet· leader to carry out " LA CAUSA" than Cesar Chavez. He knows how to cure the people's ills, he is the greatest doctor I have ever known ," remarked Vasquez. In September, 1965, Chavez's National Farm Workers Association joined the Agricultura l Workers Organizing ' Committee, AFL - CIO , in a strike against the Delano Area Grape Growers. The growers refused to discuss union recognition procedures. A joint committee took charge of the strike, "Huelga" (Strike) became the worker 's rallying cry. " I am not a very educated man but I do whatever I can to help the movement. Don't for one _day Jo~C_g~t what your responsibilities are to the RAZA. 1 don't believe we can be, for one day or one night, and not be a part of this movement," stated, Vasquez. In March, 1966, a small group of farm workers began to march from Delano through the San Joaquin Valley to the state capitol at Sacramento. Their purpose was to bring their cause before the governor and the state legislature. Through the efforts of this group and men like Chavez, Delano's second largest grape grower agreed to negotiate with the union. 10,000 people joined the marchers in a victory celebration as they arrived in Sacramento on Easter . In March, 1968, Chavez undertook a 25 • day fast to reaffirm the un ion's committment to non - violence. Upon breaking this fast, Cesar spoke at a mass attended by tens of thousands farm workers and supporters. "Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause ·are rich and powerful, and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few . But we do have something the r ich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as weapons. "I am convinced" he added, " that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non - violent struggle for justice ."
Leaflets were passed around to the audience concerning the farm workers of · the Salinas Valley. For many years the workers in the Salinas Valley had organized quietly and waited patiently for a victory in Delano. As that victory took shape, the workers asked for union representation elections in Salinas so that they could choose their own union. VOLUME LXIX The Salinas growers ignored their requests for elections and instead signed contracts with the Teamster Union, without consulting the workers.
ES SAN J OSE, CAIJFORNIA- WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1970 ~
Hijinio Rangel, coordinator of the San Jose office of UFWOC, speaking at a meeting of the Santa Clara Citizens Advisory Committee, said, "The growers are not going to listt;n to nobo!)y 'til they start to lose money." I
Friends Outside Help Inside By RAMIRO ASENCIO Friends Outside is an orga nization composed of concerned members of the community, who have been working with the families of men and women incarcerated in the County J ail or in State . and Federal Prisons. Linda Rosenburg, San Jose State, visited Ci,ty College, Friday, to inform the Times of this organization.
However, as in previous strikes, .growers recruited illegal workers to break the strike an'd, finally, in mid - September, "I have been with Friends Outside five effectively stopped the workers' strike by weeks ," Miss Rosenburg stated. " We obtaining injunctions against picketing introduce mothers to the Mother 's Club on all major ranches. It was at this point and provide a means of drawing together that the workers realized that their only the otherwise isolated wives in 9 common hope was through a boycott of all non · predicament." UFWOC label lettuce, to help them gain their long overdue rights. At least 75% of these families are Chicanos (Mexican - American ). Except for those of the Catholic faith , few belong The workers are asking for a 25 cent to a church. The children are mostly increase per hour and 91/ 2 cent increase 'undernourished, in need of clothing, and per box. Equally important are basic live in grossly sub-standard housing. provisions which the workers seek under Nearly all have dental and many medical contract, such as, grower recognition of needs unmet. UFWOC and establishment of a ban on seven dangerous pesticides . Strict " When a person goes to jail, a tremenregulations to guard farm workers and dous amount of pressure is set upon the consumers from misuse of these and rest of the family . The children of the other pesticides are also included in the prisoners are without a future unless provisions. they receive help from outside. We send tutors to the homes of these families to Inter - Harvest, Freshpict, Pic- N - Pac, talk about the problems that arise otit of are the three major companies that have their parents being in jail, " stated Miss signed with the UFWOC giving the Rosenburg . workers the conditions and wages they asked for. All union lettuce carries the The children of these families have little farm workers ' label, the Black Aztec or no incentive to stay in school. In their Eagle with the lettering " Farm Workers ' homes they have no books , no, pictures, AFL- CIO Union Label. " they never go anywhere and their parents are unable to help them with Chavez is quoted as having said, "To be a their school · work. At this age, few man is to suffer for others. God help us to present behavior problems at school and be men." so are actually overlooked as non learners. Their only contact with a successful world is through their social worker, who has 60 or more similar families, their teacher, who has 30 - 40 similar pupils, and, if a child is sufficiently aggressive to warrant a probation officer, usually their case load is far too heavy for individual cases :
The emotional disturbance in a family, where the father is arrested, comes to trial and is finally sentenced, has never been evaluated. They have no long range plans to look forward to, and much of the public recreation, low cost as it seems to us, is out of their reach. Welfare children are budgeted at 75 cents a month for recreation, and swimming is 25 cents a day.
Ctty College, Is shown using the potter wheel to make a vase. She is majoring in dental hygiene at SJCC
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Through the help and courtesy of Walt Jones, a local music instructor and group manager, two rock bands have been slated to appear.
Students Can He lp With Christmas Toys: In protests of the contracts, the workers began a general strike in the Salinas Valley. The strike was the most successful in farm worker history. Strikes were begun only where'at least 80% of the workers had signed UFWOC Authorization cards. By the growers own admission, production was cut by two thirds.
"On a kind of small scale war on poverty, Friends Outside are ready to help any time with food , clothing, or just a friendly ear for depressed and often desperate families of prisoners." Miss Rosenburg further went on to say, " The children of these families are handicapped, not in the physical sense, but in the social sense, because, one of their parents has been separated from them. "
~arsha Marten, a sophomore at
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Big game week will be highlighted this year with performances by two rock music groups.
and graduated from St. Elizabeth high school in Oakland, (See page 3 for story).
and this gives the kids an opportunity to enjoy themselves. Students can help by being big brothers and big sisters to these children. "We need students for our Christmas program to help in collecting new toys for these children. No moral judgment is
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" Any student wishing to help, or wanting more information, contact: ' Friends Another Jones group, P roud Flesh, will . Outside' 712 North Elm St., San J ose, CA play a set at the pre - game rally, 95126 or telephone , 295-6633." Thursday at U: 00 a.m. in the quad.
Easter Seal Benefit Game Slated This Friday Night
Channel 11 was here to get the Benefit Game story. It will be on the 6 o'clock news Thursday . All ' proceeds of the game this Friday against College of San Mateo will go
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to the Easter Seals Society for Crippled Children of Santa Clara County. Pictured above, in the foreground , 1 to r Vicki Ruff,
Director of Activities, Prince Damon Close, age 9, Don Hayward, Channel 11 Sports Director and Guy Hall, news cameraman.
. ("(I've Got The San Francisco Bay Blues!''
Once upon a time, in the land of California, there was a beautiful crystal blue bay surrounded by a ecalyptus shrouded peninsula.
Then came the Henry Ford and his automobiles. And the people came in droves . They built a beautiful bridge across the Golden Gate, but they also learned to build freeways in the bay.
It was not long before people in the east
learned of this beautiful land. In the East, it was either too hot or too cold, but not in California, where the sun always shines, and the summer fog keeps the heat down. And what if it did get hot, for there was always the bay to swim in.
"We have day camps that run from 10- 2 So, the people built a railroad across the continent from the east to the west. And the people came by the hundreds. They Where are the other built a great city on the entrance to their artists? We have bay, which was called the Golden Gate. more boxes that To build on the mountainous peninsula need love and paint. was difficult, so they built their city in the bay .
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involved in working with these families ; only warmth, sympathy, and a real sincere effort to help.
Watt Taylor, one of the fastes t rising groups in the South Bay area , will be putting out the music at the November 6 after · game dance. Proceeds from the dance will be donated to the Easter Seals Society · for Crippled Children. Watt Taylor is asking no fee for the benefit which will end at 1 :00 a .m. Admission price is $.75 with ASB card, and $1.00 without.
And when the airplane came, so did the airports , which they built in the bay. They learned to use the bay for everything else, from ferryboats to a dumping ground. They flushed their detergents , their industrial wastes, and even their own wastes into it.
crystal blue anymore. They had built so much in the bay there wasn't that much of it left but they decided to save what was left. So they banned construction in the city by the Golden Gate until they had built a plant that could clean up some of the dirty water. They built the plant, and the construction went on, and the problem was still getting worse. And the people still came, by car, by train, by airplane. And the skies over the crystal blue bay became cloudy.
And the people became concerned. They had come here because the bay had kept them warm in winter and cold in sum- And they ~Hd not know why they came, mer, and had been good for fishing . But for the crystal blue was no longer crystal the people kept putting their dirt into the or blue. And the land of California was no crystal blue bay and soon it wasn 't longer sunny.