La Voz de Aztlan, January 5 1973

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La Voz de Aztlan, January 5 1973

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La Voz de Aztlan, January 5 1973

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Associated Students of Fresno State

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La Voz de Aztlan (Daily Collegian, California State University, Fresno)

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Fresno, California

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1/5/1973

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Friday, Jan. 5, 19
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UFWU carries

food market boycott
The United Farm Workers Un- ficfals had personally ci;:culated
ion and their supporters are now petitions for Proposition 22.
in the process of carrying out a
Safeway, with strong ties to
nation-wide boycott against the agribusiness, rings up sales of
Safeway and A & P markets, the $5.4 billion from its stores each
two largest food monopolies in year and has long been a bitter
the country.
enemy of the . UFWU. The store
• The Union's action came after chain · has never stopped buying
unsuccessful meetings with the scab grapes since the successful
officials of the two chain stores. grape boycott of the '60's and
Both Safeway and A & P tried
now still refuses to change Its
to evade the question of the letanti-worker position during the
tuce boycott and attempted lo lettuce boycott.
steer the talks to legislation and
then asked why they were chosen , Meanwhile, back in New York,
: farm labor leader Cesar Chavez
to be boycotted.
and boycott organizers told A & P
The two chain stores have effectively divided up the country officials that they deserved to be
between them, with A & P domi- boycotted for trying to deceive the
nating the eastern half of the food P.Ublic by displaying the Union's
market and Safeway the western. black eagle label with non-union
lettuce.
A & P is tpe largest chain conglomerate in the country and
A & P is a supermarket emSafeway is the second largest.
pire with 4,265 stores taking in
During a recent meeting with
$5.5 billion in sales yearly. The
Safeway officials, Marshall Ganz,
boycott of A & P started with the
national boycott director along
appearance of human billboards
with Fred Ross, director of the
from Boston to Washington D,C,,
boycott in the Bay Area, charged
saying "Boycott Lettuce, Boycott
the 2,138 store-empire with being
A & P." According to Ganz, the
the largest sellers of non-Union
boycott will very quickly spread
lettuce in the entire United States
all over the east coast and then
and noted that one of its top of- . the west cpast.

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· THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
California ~tate University,. Fresno

Vol. 78 No. 64

Teamsters, Farm Bureau ioin 'fight against UFWU
"President Frank Fitzsimmons
of the Teamsters, after wining
and dining with the Farm Bureau
Federation, recently announced
that the Teamsters were going to
renegotiate their 'Lettuce agreements'." These were the words of
Dolores Huerta, vice president of
the United Farm Workers Union,
at a recent press conference.
"This is an admission of what
the UFW has maintained for over
two years. The present 'agree-

ments' with the lettuce industry
are a fraud as massive as the
growers' fraud on Proposition 22.
Rich white f!)en sitting in a motel
room cannot dictate the destinies
of 100,000 brown farm workers,
nor can they deprive the farm
workers of their legitimate union," she continued.
"It is no coincidence that the
Teamsters' announcement closely follows their meeting with the
Farm Bureau because the Farm
Bureau and lettuce growers are

Texas union ·str,ike continues
against clothes company
The continuing strike against
the Farah Manufacturing Company received a major boost recently when more than 1,000
pickets turned out at the downtown stores of May Co. and Bullocks in Los Angeles. The strike
support action is endorsed by the
County Federation of Labor.
The strike, which was started
by merr.oers of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers Union at the
company's El Paso plant, has received backing from all major
sections of the labor movement
and has blossomed into a fullscale boycott of Farah pants.
The company has refused tonegotiate with the workers with the

main demands centering around
union recognition and wage increases. The firing of one of the
union's organizers touched off the
strike and more than 3,000workers walked off the job.
The Farah Company has tried
every t3:ctic at its disposal to
break the strike. The company
imported scabs from Mexico, despite the insistence by the National Labor Relations Board that
it go to the bargaining table.
The company was also able to
get a temporary injunction to restrict piclceting and more than
1,000 strikers were arrested before the q.s. Supreme Court
struck down the order.

attempting to destroy our Union.
The sweetheart contracts signed
by the lettuce industry• in 1970,
precipitating the largest agricultural strike in U,S. history, were
an attempt to provide the growers
with paper insulation to protect
them from legitimate aspiration
of their farm workers."
During the same time· Fitzsimmons madetiis announcement,
the American Farm Bureau Federation held its annual convention
in Los Angeles - a yearly gathering of farm worker enemies.
Not only was the usual group of
agribusiness heavies on hand to
do their dirty work - people like

FB president William Kufuss and
California Governor RonaldRea- .
gan, but Teamster boss Fitzsimmons was on hand to use the
convention as a means to publicly
proclaim his anti-farm worker
views.
Several hundred farm workers
and supporters were parading in
a huge circle outside the LA
convention center when Fitzsimmons addressed the Farm
Bureau saying he had regrets
for crossing the picket line,
claiming the lettuce boycott is a
fraud · and scoring points with
fat-cat fantasies by calling the
pickets revolutionaries.

Immediately after the Teamsters' boss spoke, the Union vice
president called a new conference
where she denounced the Farm
Bureau \ foi: its continuing attempts to thwart the rights of
farm workers to organize with
,their Union.
She also said, "Farm workers
are protesting the Farm Bureau's
use of tax-exempt money to crush
our Union. The Farm Bureau is
not the champion of the family
farmer, rather it is a multibillion dollar financial empire
that is cheating the American
people out of their tax revenues
through its fraudulent tax status." ·

Nixon's Mexican-Ame.ricans
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Romana' s Foods' ·unfair labor practices
The decision by a National
Labor Relations Board hearing
officer i'n San Francisco that
Romona's Mexican Food Products , Inc., is guilty of wide ;
spread unfair labor practices
, might appear to be routine to
some - but not to knowledgeable .
Chicano leaders .
Romona's is (Jwned by a woman
whose .signature appears in the
lower left-hand corner of the mil- .
lions of dollars being turned out
by the Bureau of Engraving. She's
Romona Banuelos of Los Angeles,
chosen late in 1971 by President
Nixon to be Treasurer of the
United States and later confirmed
by the .:.enate despite strong opposition by labor.

Nixon said that Mrs. Banuelos
was chosen for the post in recognition of her leadership among
Mexican-Americans. AFL-CIO
Director of Organization William
Kircher testified she was anything but that, based on labor relations and working conditions at
her plant. He said the firm has a
long record of "illegal" employment of Mexicans.
Romona's Mexican Food Products has in the past threatened
workers with loss of job if they
participated in a strike, continued the threats after the strike
began, threatened the employees
with loss of "alien-employee status and deportation" to Mexico
if they did not return to work and
later refused to rehire strikers.

PHI _L~IP V. SANCHEZ, National Di rector of the Office of Economic Opportunity Program, is shown here ·
praising President Nixon last year. Now Sanchez faces the prospect that his beloved job is in jeopardy.
Sanchez may end up somewhere in South America soon. Next to Sanchez is Mrs. Romona Banuelos,
Treasurer of the United States, who is now under pressure to resign by labor leaders and under investigation by the National Labor Relations Board for unfair labor practices. Dr. Henry Ramirez, Chairman
of the Cabin~t Comm,!ttee for the Spanish Speaking, is seen in the background.

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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Friday, January 5, 1973

COMMENTARY

Reagan and the Barrio
After studying Governor Ronald Reagan's near-perfect record on
vetoing any legislation of interest to the Chicano community, one
comes to the conclusion that when Ronald R~agan was small, some
Chicano, probably a Pachuco, beat the hell out of him. How else can
you explain his continuing efforts to oppress the people of the barrlos.
When one considers his recent veto of ABl 703, a bill designed to
allot annual money to the EOP program, his veto of a bill which would
have recruited bilingual deputy registrars; his veto of a bill to establish billngual-bicultural education, one thinks to himself: Did he flunk ·
Spanish in high,,school?
But it doesn't stop there. Last year Reagan vetoed another series
of bil~s dealing ·with Spanish-speaking people. Such bills that w o u 1 d
have permitted languages besides English to be spoken at the P.<>lls;
_that would have required schools to give special help to students whose
Engllsh is limited and a bill that would have allowed bilingual education opportunities for school children.
Ah, it doesn't stop at education. Unemployment insurance for the
farm worker has twice been the target of Reagan's pen. It's to the
point where UFW Director Cesar Chavez says he will try for the insurance in 1975, when Reagan ls, hopefully, no longer governor.
Reagan has been consistent in his attempts to legally oppress the
Chicano community and probably will continue doing so. I wonder if
he llkes Mexican food • • • .
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-Miguel Contreras

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Opportunities
in
management
WANT TO HELP YOUR
COMMUNITY AND YOURSELF?-Think about a career
in management. The Chicano
people desperately need
qualified leaders - a new
breed of leaders who have the
technical sktlls and tools to
compete for and handle the
policy-making positions
which offer opportunity for
real change.
If you feel you have leadership abtlities and want to
aggressively help your people in the most effective way
but lack the management
skills to handle the" system,•
contact: Chicano Graduate
Advisor, UCLA, Graduate
School of Management, Los
Angeles, California, 90024
(213-825-4558) OR Chicano
Business Students Association (213-473-8523). Representative will be on campus
January 27 , 1973.

NOTICIAS
Retreat
The Committee on La Raza
Studies is having a retreat the
27th and 28th of this month. The
committee will meet .in Delano at
the Veterans Hall. For more information contact the La Raza
Studies Office.

Book plea
Anyone who has borrowed books
from La Raza Studies is asked to
return them as soon as possible.
No questions will be asked, just
bring the much-needed books
back.

UFWU volunteers
The United Farm Workers Union is now taking application for
workers. You will travel, meet
new people, endure hardship and
live on $5 a week, room and board
paid. Anyone interested is asked
to contact La Raza Studies Of-....
fice.

MECHA meetings
MECHA will hold two meetings
next week on Tuesday and Thursday from 12 noon to 2:00. On

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generous serving of beef
with Spanish seasonings, lettuce, shredded cheddar cheese and a special tangy
sauce laced with onions, peppers and
tom_atoes. Vivo el taco!

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Tuesday there will be discussion
on electing officers for the spring
semester. Elections will be held
. on Thursday.

Las Ad elitas
out-going Adelita president
Patricia Aguirre informs all
members that new pfficers will
be nominated all ne·x t week. Anyone wishing to nominate are advised that forms can be picked up
in La Raza Studies Office.

Delta Alpha Chi
Delta Alpha Chi, the Chicano
fraternity, will hold its installation banquet tomorrow night. A
large group of new pledges will
formally join the brotherhood.
Guest speakers include Alex
Saragoza and Al Villa.

THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Publis'1ed five days a week except
holic.ays and examination periods by
the Fresno State College Association . Mail subscriptions $8 a semes•
ter , $15 a year . Editorial office,
Keats Campus Building, telephone
487·2486 . Business and advertising
office, College Union 316 , telephone
487-2266.
Opinions expre ssed in Collegia n edi•
torials , • inc:uding feature-editorials
and commentaries by guest writers ,
ue not necessarily those of California State University, Fresno, or
the student body .

LA VOZ DE AZTLAN
Editor .. . . . . . . Migue1 Contreras
Reporters . . . . . . . . . Pat. Aguirre,
Al Casares, Rudy Contreras ,
Yolanda Perez, Grace Solis ,
Mary Zapata
Photographer . . . . . . . . Ed Zepeda

7-ELEVEN
OPEN 24 HRS.
CEDAR-SHAW

Friday, January 5, 1973

THE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Poesig de la Gente
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Soldado Chicano

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I AM THE CHICANO VETERAN
PULLED MY SHARE OF PAIN
OF FIGHTING AND KILLING HUMANS FOR 8EMOCRACY
TOOK ALL THE BULLSHIT THE SERVICE GAVE ME
WON MORE MEDALS OF HONOR THAN OTHER VETERANS
I FOUGHT CON LOS HUEVOS DE UN MACHO
NOW l'M HOME A SEGUIR LA VIDA
MY EYES CAN NOW SEE MORE
. Y Ml CORAZON DEULE FOR EL SUFRI EMTO DE Ml GENTE
THE CHOICE IS CLEAR
AL LOW THESE COSAS FEAS TO HAPPEN TO MY PEOPLE
OR USE MY SKI LL AND POWER TO MAKE THEM STOP
SOY EL VETERANO CHICANO
I LEARNED TO FIGHT, TO KILL
DEFENDING WHAT I THOUGHT MY COU NTRY, JUSTICE AND
FREEDOM

St. P_
aul's Catholic Chapel at Newma_n Ce~t,~
I NOW SAY MY COUNTRY IS AZTLAN
MY GENTE ES LA RAZA
NEITHER ARE 'FREE OR RECEIVE JUSTICE

1572 E, BARSTOW A VE, - Phone 439-4641
MASSES: Sundays 8 - 10 - 12 Noon;
MASSES: Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri., 5 p.m.; Wed~, 7:30 p.m.
CONFESSIONS: Satur.days, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Sat. 5 p.m. Mass (For Sun. Op.)
Rev. Sergio P. Negro and Rev. W. Minhoto, Chaplains

TIME OF BETTER CONDITIONS FOR LA RAZA IS NOW
I HA VE RE TURNED HOME •• ,
AGAIN I AM ENGAGED IN WAR

Millbro~k_ United Pre~byterian C!hurch ·

EnriQue Rodriguez

3620 N. MILLBROOK (Between Sh_
i elds & Dakota)
MORNING WORSHIP 9 & 11:00 A.M.
College Fellowship: 8:00 P.M. Sunday
CHANCEL CHOIR - THURSDAYS 7:30 p.m.
COLLEGIANS WELCOME!
Ernest I. Bradley, Pastor - Dale A. Ridenour, Minister to Youth
For Transportation phone 227-5355

Welfare Stop

·-COLLEGE CHURCH OF CHRIST

It seems like yf:sterday,
and it could also be tomorrow
that my father and mother

and spam. I didn't mind
having to help start the '47
Chrysler with the power windows
to make sure we wouldn't

Put on their best clothes
and told us to wash really good
so we could go to Fresno

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Be late. Because always my
father would buy me something
good like fritos.

And pick up the welfare check
and cheese and powdered milk

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~obert Martinez Jr.
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EAST BULLARD (Between First and Cedar)
SUNDAY: Bible School, 9 a.m.; Morning Worship, 10 a.m.
Young People, 5 p.m.; Evening Worship, 6 p.m._
WEDNESDAY: Bible Study., 7:30 p.m.
Special Class for College Students
Dedicated to Serving the College Community
Transportation Available - Phone 439-6530

TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA
3973 N. Cedar (Near Ashlan)
9-10:30 AM: WORSIDP

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HOLY COMMUNION - 1st Sunday
and Thurs. 7 AM
Contemporary Liturgy - Fourth Sunday 9· AM
Philip A. Jordan, Pastor
Carl E. Olson, Assoc. Pastor .

The Rows Were Long
I ached
my hands stung
and I wondered .•••

iAPURATE!

i CON GANAS!
iCINCUENTA MAS Y NOS VAMOS!

i NO LE HECHES TANTA OJA!

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Should I go to the dance?
i Chanclaso night!
·Maybe the drive-in con las vatos?
i $1.75 a car-load!

The rows were long,
Lifeless ••••
•Maybe we'l I finish in thirty minutes•
I would hope ••••

_•iYa acabaste el surco, Guillermo?•
•si•
•Bueno, apurito las tablas Que hiciste
y vamonos.•

The moist dirt debajo las vinas
Felt good on my feet.
The breeze was cool
I hoped for it to stay
Wishing not to offend it
Thirsty for more ••••

How happy I felt;
I trotted as I counted, sm i Ii ng.
La bandeja, el cochillo, el aQua,
al I were gathered, and
We went home.

•! Nomas acabamos el surco y nos vamos ! •
mi jefe repeated ••••
I would pick faster, milking the grapes,
half filling the trays ••••

i GUILLERMO!
iLEVANTATE!
i YA SON LAS CINCO1
i BUSCA LAS BANDEJAS!

As I looked, the shadow del sol
Blinded me.
Tired, sweaty

PUBLIC LECTURE
THE POWERS
LA TENT IN MAN
BY---DR. DOUGLAS M. EAKER
Member of the Royal College of
Surgeons & f'.hysicians, England

PSYCHIC SCIENTIST

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Plaza Room 8 p.m.
. FR; 'JAY, : JANUARY 5
Admission: $2.00

Guillermo Lopez

BETHEL TEMPLE
•JUST SOUTH OF F ASIDON FAIR•
4665 NORTH FIRST (Near Shaw)
Rev. Donald K. Skaggs, Pastor; Robert Hudson, Associate
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Children's Church:- 11:00 a.m.
Youth Meeting: 5:45 p.m~
Evening Evangelistic: 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday - Bible Study and Prayer: 7:30 p.m.

UNITED ·cHURCH CENTER
4th and BARSTOW
Wesley Methodist and University Presbyterian
Sunday Worship - 9:30 A.M. and 11:00 A.M.
CSUF Students Welcome!
Also Worship - 11:15 A.M. - 1350 M Street
Ministers: Willard J. Rand,. Jr., S. Wm. Antablln and
John F. Boogaert

·'PE.ACE .LUTHERAN CHURCH
CED .\ R & GETTYSBURG
Sunday Worship: 8:30 & 11 A.M.
<;::allege Encounter - 9:45 A.M. Sunday
K. Fuerbringer, Pastor
Phone 431-0858 / 222-2320

ST. JAMES' EPISCOPAL CATHEDERAL
4147 East Dakota at Cedar Avenue
Sunday Services:

8 a.m. - Holy Eucharist
9 a.m. - Family Eucharist, Church School
classes and Adult Forum
11 a.m. - Choral Worship, Holy Communion
on 1st and 3rd Sundays, Morning
Prayer 2nd and 4th and 5th Sundays

Thursdays:

6:45 a.m. - Holy Eucharist
11:00 a.m. - Holy Eucharist
Hol}' Days: 8:45 a.m. - Holy Eucharist

The Very Rev. John D. Spear, Dean
The Rev. James Booth -The Rev. Raymond Anderson, Associates

THE PEOPLE'S CHURC_
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Corner of Ce<Jar & Dakota
Sunday Collegiate I _
n teract - 9:45 A.M.
Morning Worship - 8:30, 9:45, 11:00 A.M.
Sunday Eve. service - 7:00 P.M.
College Bible Study - Wednesdays 9:15 .P.M.
Need a Job? Call Collegiate Interact Job Placement Service

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G. L. Johnson, Pastor
Douglas A. Holck, Minister of _
M usic
Russell Brown, Minister of Yquth
Austin D~ Morgan, Minister of Pastoral Care.
Hal Edmonds, Minister of: Education

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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Friday, ]anuary-_5, 1973

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La Raza CHE directs stud 1es
By Alex Saragoza

In recent years the educational
system has been attacked from
several sectors of society, and
the Chicano has not been the least
vocal of those critics. Little
would be gained here to repeat 1
the lltany of complaints,·negative 1
statistics, or the description of ;
the debilitating effects of the ·
educational system on Chicanos.
Therefore it is not surprising
that the school system, and the .
institutions of higher education in
particular, have become a primary target of attack by Chicanos. Thus, just a few short
years ago, there were demands
for more Chicano admissions,
Chicano Studies, Chicano professors and Chicano administrators.
For most Chicanos, education
was the gateway to progress, to
success, to positions of power
where Chicanos could wrought a
better world for La Raza.
As a consequence, many Chicanos were hired by California
colleges and universities to establish and to teach in Chicano
Studies programs. Subsequently,
issues revolving around accountability, community input and student participation soon appeared,
as well as specific questions concerning grades, teacher- student
roles, and educational alternatives. As programs proliferated,
as Chicano scholarships materialized, as schools yielded to
Chicano pressures, as recruiters
began to look for Garzas and
Estradas, few voices were raised
in warning of the implications of
our demands and limited successes.
Clearly our participation in
such institutions legitimized to an
extent the apparently bankrupt
existence of these institutions
for the Chicano community. Even
among Anglos the war briefly
exposed these institutions, hut
as the American KIA 's decreased
(but Vietnamese casualties remained the same) many campus
•radicals" with certain draft
numbers suddenly lost their indignation and went back to playing 'Stones and James Taylor.
Needless to say, there were still
a lot of Chicanos applauding Ray
Camacho's Chicano music in Saigon, Da Nang and other wellknown Chicano barrios. Questioning students began to perceive
Chicano participation in higher
educational institutions as •cooptatlon," as an example of the

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'Andromeda Strain'
This week's Friday Flick, presented by College Union Activities, is •The AndromedaStrain."
There will be two showingsat 7:30 and· 9:30-both in the CU
Lounge.

Women's tennis
Those interested tn joining the
Fresno State women's intercollegiate tennis team are urged to
contact Miss Mason in Room 125
of the Women's Gym before
Thursday, Jan. 11.

Blood drive
Sigma Nu Fraternity ls sponsoring a blood drive to beneftt
Blg_Brothers of Fresno.
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· Donations wlll be accepted at
the Central California Blood
Bank, located at 3425 N. 1st
Street.
A $500 goal has been set with
a January 11 deadline.
For further information, contact any Sigma Nu member or
phone 222-4874.

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•absorbent power" of the system.
On the other hand, many Chicanos looked at •higher education" as a meaningless validation:
a sterile certification which must
be endured in order to receive
the credentials necessary to begin to change the system from the
inside.
Meanwhile, as Chicanos conducted an internecine and at ti mes
very bitter debate over the education of Chicanos, the Anglos
were . busy plotting "solutions,"
•approaches," "programs,"
•projects," "research," and the
like. As ideologies and tactics
clashed among Chicano intellectuals, the master plan for education in California also continued, as well as local state
· college and university master
plans. The end result was a
continuous •reaction" syndrome
whereby Chicanos attempted to ·
catch up with the bureaucratic
treachery of the •system" and to
minimize its effects on Chicanos.
Chicanos were kept so busy locally, and one must suspect deliberately, on and off campus, that
state-wide issues were neglected
until the "disease" became soapparent that it was impossible to
dismiss. In issue after issue the
college Chicano community reacted to .(rather than initiated)
action even on those issues most
relevant to them.
A number of other issues 'are
of course still facing Chicanos
on a state-wide basis - from
tuition increases to teacher
preparation and licensing to affirmative action - the ramifications of which filter down to the
local level. In many cases, the
parameters have been established by the time such policies
appear at the local level and/or
campus. Subsequently, Chicanos
are only now •scratching the surface" on such matters. Moreover,
as Chicano Studies extend their
services to the com rnunity, they
continue to encounter a maze of
bureaucratic red tape that often
stifles action. The cliches are
well known to Chicanos:
•Well, we have nothing to do
with it, Sacramento made the decision.,.
"Well, the legislature passed
this new hill .•. ,.
"You understand that we are
working under state guidelines .•. "
The meaningless bureaucrat.
announcing his nothingness on
state engraved titles, supported
by a California-stamped gray
desk, passing the buck to th_e next
human zero is a scene too often
witnessed by Chicanos, and too
frequently effective.
The point i's that Chicanos are
too often unaware of the factors
involved in the policy-making
process. All the rhetoric about
the several layers of bureaucratic feces will not erase its
ability to exclude Chicano input.
Thus our continuous "reaction"
and not "initiation." We are kept
so occupied fighting the brush
fires that we don't notice.the bigger fire around us.
The r,traditional organizations
have no (or inadequate )provisions
for information distribution to
the Chicano communities on the
various campuses throughout the
state. Although there are numerous newsletters, papers and an-

nouncements, their lack ofa consistent and coherent informational base has severely limited
their ability to disseminate vital
information adequately. While
more• publications may he 1p
bridge the gap, there is a clear
need for a· more personalized
mechanism to distribute information relevant to ~hicanos in the
state colleges and universities.
If such meetings were to take
place, discussions, questions,
debates could be encouraged in
order to bring all facets of an
issue to the Chicano community
on campus. The crucial factor in
such an organization would be the
consistent participation of its
members. Only through consiste_nt attendance could the continuity of the information, and its
effective dissemination, be assured.
Various attempts have been
made to begin, to resurrect, to
restructure such an organization.
Recently the community colleges
have emba-rked on such an effort.
A case in point, at the state
college and university level, is
the present La Raza Council on
Higher Education (state college
and university caucus). Periodically the Council holds meetings
in the various state colleges and
universities, and each state college or university is represented
by two members as selected by
their respective schools. Members may he students, or faculty
or staff or community representatives or any combination
thereof. Ideally there would be
student-faculty representation.
In the past, th~ main problem
facing La Raza C.H. E. was the
erratic participation of the various representatives. The causes
were sever a 1: (1) insufficient
traveling funds, (2) inefficient
communication, (3) low organizational profile, (4) lack of accountabilftl by tollege representatives. Indeed, if they knew of
La Raza CHE, Chicano Studies
Departments did not feel that
La Raza CHE was a high priority
concern , thus representatives
came when they felt like it. or
when the meeting was in town; or
when they had an issue they
wanted aired and given publicity.
Finally, and perhaps more importantly, the wide range of differing ideologies, philosophies,
and ohjectives often hogged down

any visible or direct action by
La Raza CHE. Consequently no
one was completely satisfied.
Perhaps a more important
question was involved. Clearly
any state-wide organization can!.
not represent all "Chicanos;" the
hypocrisy of such organizations
ts manifest to everyone in the
Movimiento, yet Chicanos still
witness an occasional "news conference" by Mexican-American
leaders to state the "Chicano"
position over a certain "issue."
For this reason and others,
MAPA, AMAE, G.I. Forum, and
other established organizations
have not enjoyed the strong and
general support of the politically
active - and aware - Chicano
youth.
Thus any pretensions about La
Raza CHE representing •the Chi.cano faculty and students of the
19 state colleges and uni versities" have been dismissed. This
is not an admission of weakness,
rather one of honesty. Therefore
La Raza CHE intends to become
a coordinating group of informational accumulation and dissemination. As Chicano Studies,
MECHAS, and associated programs become an integral part
of the Chic an o community's
struggle, such information becomes even more important since
grass roots people need such information to avoid the bureaucratic obstacles the Anglo institutions are so adept at erecting.
Chicano student groups, Chicano
Studies departments, Chicano
Supportive Services personnel,
must' become much more cognizant of the role such an organization can play, and its importance. The beneficiaries will not
only be the Chicanos on campus,
but potentially, the benefits will
reverberate throughout our communities. Thus, La Raza CHE
primarily will be an issueraising organization, pinpointing
those issues that are of significance and immediacy to Chicanos. What Chicanos do as a
follow-up will depend on the actions of the representatives when
they return to their respective
campuses. This does not, of
course, preclude united actionon
a selected issue. but it does allow
for a varied response to any
question. While unity will continue to be the strength of La
Raza, there is no room for dis-

Utility ·strike stops Guild
The Buttes Gas & Oil strikers,finding widespread support, are
sweeping the state of Wisconsin
clean of Guild Wines and liquors.
In Milwaukee they have knocked
out Guild products from 141 of the
230 liquor stores in that city.
The strikers' campaign against
Guild Wineries and Distilleries,
which are controlled by Buttes
Gas & Oil, received a tremendous
boost when the • last of Racine's
30 liquor stores to carry Guild
wines and liquors broke under the
economic pressure caused by
strikers' picket lines. It was a
heavy blow to Buttes Gas & Oil
because the liquor store was the
largest in Racine with 25.000
bottles of Guild wines and liquors
in stock.
In Eau Claire, all 11 liquor
stores are clean, while in the

Appleton-Oshkosh area the strikers have persuaded 30 out of 39
stores to stop selling Guild products.
Union Vice-President Gilbert
Padilla reports that the strikers
are determined to continue with
the boycott against Buttes Gas &
Oil despite sub-zero temperatures and snow storms.
"!'he push against Guild wines
and liquors caused a massive
switch among liquor stores to
Christian Brothers wines, and
liquors to meet consumer demands for the holidays. Christian
Brothers has a Union contract.

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honesty. A misunderstood or artificial unity is no unity at all.
Until Chicanos have established
viable educational alternatives,
the institutions of higher education will continue to be the main
sources of social validation
despite their obvious moral and
education a 1 impoverishment.
Clearly the number of Chicano
students at the state college and
university level has increased,
yet the number is still inadequate and not all of them graduate;
and certainly not all of them return to their communities, in body
or spirit. The college or university should not be the beginning
of the Chicanos' political education - indeed it should be the
last place for it to happen.
All of us are painfully aware
of the problems faced by any
state-wide Chicano organization
to have and maintain a wide and
consistent base of support. Nonetheless, La Raza CHE is intent
on providing a mechanism whereby it can be of optimum benefit
to a segment of the Movimiento
that has not been fully tappec;:I.
La Raza CHE deserves the
careful and serious consideration of all Chicano student organizations, programs, departments and faculty in the state
college and university system.
There are no salaries, no meetings in plush surroundings, no
conferences on pretty beachside
resorts - there is only work and to work for La Raza is indeed La Raza CHE 's reward and
purpose.
The larger issue of Chicano
participation in the institutions of
higher education can only be
speculated upon a number of other
assumptions, the most important
of which may be the following:
( 1) the creation of real and viable
educational alternatives at . the
"college" level; (2) the education
of Chicanos prior to •college;"
(3) the availability of opportunities for meaningful work to Chicanos prepared by non-Anglo,
non-schooling institutions. La
Raza CHE cannot answer these
wider questions, it can only participate in the continuing search
for those answers to free Chicanos from the invisible prison
that bars their liberation, namely, Anglo schooling. Yet, until
those answers are found, it will
attempt to retain or regain the
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UFWU carries

food market boycott
The United Farm Workers Un- ficfals had personally ci;:culated
ion and their supporters are now petitions for Proposition 22.
in the process of carrying out a
Safeway, with strong ties to
nation-wide boycott against the agribusiness, rings up sales of
Safeway and A & P markets, the $5.4 billion from its stores each
two largest food monopolies in year and has long been a bitter
the country.
enemy of the . UFWU. The store
• The Union's action came after chain · has never stopped buying
unsuccessful meetings with the scab grapes since the successful
officials of the two chain stores. grape boycott of the '60's and
Both Safeway and A & P tried
now still refuses to change Its
to evade the question of the letanti-worker position during the
tuce boycott and attempted lo lettuce boycott.
steer the talks to legislation and
then asked why they were chosen , Meanwhile, back in New York,
: farm labor leader Cesar Chavez
to be boycotted.
and boycott organizers told A & P
The two chain stores have effectively divided up the country officials that they deserved to be
between them, with A & P domi- boycotted for trying to deceive the
nating the eastern half of the food P.Ublic by displaying the Union's
market and Safeway the western. black eagle label with non-union
lettuce.
A & P is tpe largest chain conglomerate in the country and
A & P is a supermarket emSafeway is the second largest.
pire with 4,265 stores taking in
During a recent meeting with
$5.5 billion in sales yearly. The
Safeway officials, Marshall Ganz,
boycott of A & P started with the
national boycott director along
appearance of human billboards
with Fred Ross, director of the
from Boston to Washington D,C,,
boycott in the Bay Area, charged
saying "Boycott Lettuce, Boycott
the 2,138 store-empire with being
A & P." According to Ganz, the
the largest sellers of non-Union
boycott will very quickly spread
lettuce in the entire United States
all over the east coast and then
and noted that one of its top of- . the west cpast.

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Vol. 78 No. 64

Teamsters, Farm Bureau ioin 'fight against UFWU
"President Frank Fitzsimmons
of the Teamsters, after wining
and dining with the Farm Bureau
Federation, recently announced
that the Teamsters were going to
renegotiate their 'Lettuce agreements'." These were the words of
Dolores Huerta, vice president of
the United Farm Workers Union,
at a recent press conference.
"This is an admission of what
the UFW has maintained for over
two years. The present 'agree-

ments' with the lettuce industry
are a fraud as massive as the
growers' fraud on Proposition 22.
Rich white f!)en sitting in a motel
room cannot dictate the destinies
of 100,000 brown farm workers,
nor can they deprive the farm
workers of their legitimate union," she continued.
"It is no coincidence that the
Teamsters' announcement closely follows their meeting with the
Farm Bureau because the Farm
Bureau and lettuce growers are

Texas union ·str,ike continues
against clothes company
The continuing strike against
the Farah Manufacturing Company received a major boost recently when more than 1,000
pickets turned out at the downtown stores of May Co. and Bullocks in Los Angeles. The strike
support action is endorsed by the
County Federation of Labor.
The strike, which was started
by merr.oers of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers Union at the
company's El Paso plant, has received backing from all major
sections of the labor movement
and has blossomed into a fullscale boycott of Farah pants.
The company has refused tonegotiate with the workers with the

main demands centering around
union recognition and wage increases. The firing of one of the
union's organizers touched off the
strike and more than 3,000workers walked off the job.
The Farah Company has tried
every t3:ctic at its disposal to
break the strike. The company
imported scabs from Mexico, despite the insistence by the National Labor Relations Board that
it go to the bargaining table.
The company was also able to
get a temporary injunction to restrict piclceting and more than
1,000 strikers were arrested before the q.s. Supreme Court
struck down the order.

attempting to destroy our Union.
The sweetheart contracts signed
by the lettuce industry• in 1970,
precipitating the largest agricultural strike in U,S. history, were
an attempt to provide the growers
with paper insulation to protect
them from legitimate aspiration
of their farm workers."
During the same time· Fitzsimmons madetiis announcement,
the American Farm Bureau Federation held its annual convention
in Los Angeles - a yearly gathering of farm worker enemies.
Not only was the usual group of
agribusiness heavies on hand to
do their dirty work - people like

FB president William Kufuss and
California Governor RonaldRea- .
gan, but Teamster boss Fitzsimmons was on hand to use the
convention as a means to publicly
proclaim his anti-farm worker
views.
Several hundred farm workers
and supporters were parading in
a huge circle outside the LA
convention center when Fitzsimmons addressed the Farm
Bureau saying he had regrets
for crossing the picket line,
claiming the lettuce boycott is a
fraud · and scoring points with
fat-cat fantasies by calling the
pickets revolutionaries.

Immediately after the Teamsters' boss spoke, the Union vice
president called a new conference
where she denounced the Farm
Bureau \ foi: its continuing attempts to thwart the rights of
farm workers to organize with
,their Union.
She also said, "Farm workers
are protesting the Farm Bureau's
use of tax-exempt money to crush
our Union. The Farm Bureau is
not the champion of the family
farmer, rather it is a multibillion dollar financial empire
that is cheating the American
people out of their tax revenues
through its fraudulent tax status." ·

Nixon's Mexican-Ame.ricans
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Romana' s Foods' ·unfair labor practices
The decision by a National
Labor Relations Board hearing
officer i'n San Francisco that
Romona's Mexican Food Products , Inc., is guilty of wide ;
spread unfair labor practices
, might appear to be routine to
some - but not to knowledgeable .
Chicano leaders .
Romona's is (Jwned by a woman
whose .signature appears in the
lower left-hand corner of the mil- .
lions of dollars being turned out
by the Bureau of Engraving. She's
Romona Banuelos of Los Angeles,
chosen late in 1971 by President
Nixon to be Treasurer of the
United States and later confirmed
by the .:.enate despite strong opposition by labor.

Nixon said that Mrs. Banuelos
was chosen for the post in recognition of her leadership among
Mexican-Americans. AFL-CIO
Director of Organization William
Kircher testified she was anything but that, based on labor relations and working conditions at
her plant. He said the firm has a
long record of "illegal" employment of Mexicans.
Romona's Mexican Food Products has in the past threatened
workers with loss of job if they
participated in a strike, continued the threats after the strike
began, threatened the employees
with loss of "alien-employee status and deportation" to Mexico
if they did not return to work and
later refused to rehire strikers.

PHI _L~IP V. SANCHEZ, National Di rector of the Office of Economic Opportunity Program, is shown here ·
praising President Nixon last year. Now Sanchez faces the prospect that his beloved job is in jeopardy.
Sanchez may end up somewhere in South America soon. Next to Sanchez is Mrs. Romona Banuelos,
Treasurer of the United States, who is now under pressure to resign by labor leaders and under investigation by the National Labor Relations Board for unfair labor practices. Dr. Henry Ramirez, Chairman
of the Cabin~t Comm,!ttee for the Spanish Speaking, is seen in the background.

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Friday, January 5, 1973

COMMENTARY

Reagan and the Barrio
After studying Governor Ronald Reagan's near-perfect record on
vetoing any legislation of interest to the Chicano community, one
comes to the conclusion that when Ronald R~agan was small, some
Chicano, probably a Pachuco, beat the hell out of him. How else can
you explain his continuing efforts to oppress the people of the barrlos.
When one considers his recent veto of ABl 703, a bill designed to
allot annual money to the EOP program, his veto of a bill which would
have recruited bilingual deputy registrars; his veto of a bill to establish billngual-bicultural education, one thinks to himself: Did he flunk ·
Spanish in high,,school?
But it doesn't stop there. Last year Reagan vetoed another series
of bil~s dealing ·with Spanish-speaking people. Such bills that w o u 1 d
have permitted languages besides English to be spoken at the P.<>lls;
_that would have required schools to give special help to students whose
Engllsh is limited and a bill that would have allowed bilingual education opportunities for school children.
Ah, it doesn't stop at education. Unemployment insurance for the
farm worker has twice been the target of Reagan's pen. It's to the
point where UFW Director Cesar Chavez says he will try for the insurance in 1975, when Reagan ls, hopefully, no longer governor.
Reagan has been consistent in his attempts to legally oppress the
Chicano community and probably will continue doing so. I wonder if
he llkes Mexican food • • • .
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Opportunities
in
management
WANT TO HELP YOUR
COMMUNITY AND YOURSELF?-Think about a career
in management. The Chicano
people desperately need
qualified leaders - a new
breed of leaders who have the
technical sktlls and tools to
compete for and handle the
policy-making positions
which offer opportunity for
real change.
If you feel you have leadership abtlities and want to
aggressively help your people in the most effective way
but lack the management
skills to handle the" system,•
contact: Chicano Graduate
Advisor, UCLA, Graduate
School of Management, Los
Angeles, California, 90024
(213-825-4558) OR Chicano
Business Students Association (213-473-8523). Representative will be on campus
January 27 , 1973.

NOTICIAS
Retreat
The Committee on La Raza
Studies is having a retreat the
27th and 28th of this month. The
committee will meet .in Delano at
the Veterans Hall. For more information contact the La Raza
Studies Office.

Book plea
Anyone who has borrowed books
from La Raza Studies is asked to
return them as soon as possible.
No questions will be asked, just
bring the much-needed books
back.

UFWU volunteers
The United Farm Workers Union is now taking application for
workers. You will travel, meet
new people, endure hardship and
live on $5 a week, room and board
paid. Anyone interested is asked
to contact La Raza Studies Of-....
fice.

MECHA meetings
MECHA will hold two meetings
next week on Tuesday and Thursday from 12 noon to 2:00. On

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with Spanish seasonings, lettuce, shredded cheddar cheese and a special tangy
sauce laced with onions, peppers and
tom_atoes. Vivo el taco!

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Tuesday there will be discussion
on electing officers for the spring
semester. Elections will be held
. on Thursday.

Las Ad elitas
out-going Adelita president
Patricia Aguirre informs all
members that new pfficers will
be nominated all ne·x t week. Anyone wishing to nominate are advised that forms can be picked up
in La Raza Studies Office.

Delta Alpha Chi
Delta Alpha Chi, the Chicano
fraternity, will hold its installation banquet tomorrow night. A
large group of new pledges will
formally join the brotherhood.
Guest speakers include Alex
Saragoza and Al Villa.

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Poesig de la Gente
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Soldado Chicano

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I AM THE CHICANO VETERAN
PULLED MY SHARE OF PAIN
OF FIGHTING AND KILLING HUMANS FOR 8EMOCRACY
TOOK ALL THE BULLSHIT THE SERVICE GAVE ME
WON MORE MEDALS OF HONOR THAN OTHER VETERANS
I FOUGHT CON LOS HUEVOS DE UN MACHO
NOW l'M HOME A SEGUIR LA VIDA
MY EYES CAN NOW SEE MORE
. Y Ml CORAZON DEULE FOR EL SUFRI EMTO DE Ml GENTE
THE CHOICE IS CLEAR
AL LOW THESE COSAS FEAS TO HAPPEN TO MY PEOPLE
OR USE MY SKI LL AND POWER TO MAKE THEM STOP
SOY EL VETERANO CHICANO
I LEARNED TO FIGHT, TO KILL
DEFENDING WHAT I THOUGHT MY COU NTRY, JUSTICE AND
FREEDOM

St. P_
aul's Catholic Chapel at Newma_n Ce~t,~
I NOW SAY MY COUNTRY IS AZTLAN
MY GENTE ES LA RAZA
NEITHER ARE 'FREE OR RECEIVE JUSTICE

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TIME OF BETTER CONDITIONS FOR LA RAZA IS NOW
I HA VE RE TURNED HOME •• ,
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It seems like yf:sterday,
and it could also be tomorrow
that my father and mother

and spam. I didn't mind
having to help start the '47
Chrysler with the power windows
to make sure we wouldn't

Put on their best clothes
and told us to wash really good
so we could go to Fresno

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Be late. Because always my
father would buy me something
good like fritos.

And pick up the welfare check
and cheese and powdered milk

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and Thurs. 7 AM
Contemporary Liturgy - Fourth Sunday 9· AM
Philip A. Jordan, Pastor
Carl E. Olson, Assoc. Pastor .

The Rows Were Long
I ached
my hands stung
and I wondered .•••

iAPURATE!

i CON GANAS!
iCINCUENTA MAS Y NOS VAMOS!

i NO LE HECHES TANTA OJA!

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Should I go to the dance?
i Chanclaso night!
·Maybe the drive-in con las vatos?
i $1.75 a car-load!

The rows were long,
Lifeless ••••
•Maybe we'l I finish in thirty minutes•
I would hope ••••

_•iYa acabaste el surco, Guillermo?•
•si•
•Bueno, apurito las tablas Que hiciste
y vamonos.•

The moist dirt debajo las vinas
Felt good on my feet.
The breeze was cool
I hoped for it to stay
Wishing not to offend it
Thirsty for more ••••

How happy I felt;
I trotted as I counted, sm i Ii ng.
La bandeja, el cochillo, el aQua,
al I were gathered, and
We went home.

•! Nomas acabamos el surco y nos vamos ! •
mi jefe repeated ••••
I would pick faster, milking the grapes,
half filling the trays ••••

i GUILLERMO!
iLEVANTATE!
i YA SON LAS CINCO1
i BUSCA LAS BANDEJAS!

As I looked, the shadow del sol
Blinded me.
Tired, sweaty

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Youth Meeting: 5:45 p.m~
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Sunday Worship - 9:30 A.M. and 11:00 A.M.
CSUF Students Welcome!
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Russell Brown, Minister of Yquth
Austin D~ Morgan, Minister of Pastoral Care.
Hal Edmonds, Minister of: Education

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Friday, ]anuary-_5, 1973

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La Raza CHE directs stud 1es
By Alex Saragoza

In recent years the educational
system has been attacked from
several sectors of society, and
the Chicano has not been the least
vocal of those critics. Little
would be gained here to repeat 1
the lltany of complaints,·negative 1
statistics, or the description of ;
the debilitating effects of the ·
educational system on Chicanos.
Therefore it is not surprising
that the school system, and the .
institutions of higher education in
particular, have become a primary target of attack by Chicanos. Thus, just a few short
years ago, there were demands
for more Chicano admissions,
Chicano Studies, Chicano professors and Chicano administrators.
For most Chicanos, education
was the gateway to progress, to
success, to positions of power
where Chicanos could wrought a
better world for La Raza.
As a consequence, many Chicanos were hired by California
colleges and universities to establish and to teach in Chicano
Studies programs. Subsequently,
issues revolving around accountability, community input and student participation soon appeared,
as well as specific questions concerning grades, teacher- student
roles, and educational alternatives. As programs proliferated,
as Chicano scholarships materialized, as schools yielded to
Chicano pressures, as recruiters
began to look for Garzas and
Estradas, few voices were raised
in warning of the implications of
our demands and limited successes.
Clearly our participation in
such institutions legitimized to an
extent the apparently bankrupt
existence of these institutions
for the Chicano community. Even
among Anglos the war briefly
exposed these institutions, hut
as the American KIA 's decreased
(but Vietnamese casualties remained the same) many campus
•radicals" with certain draft
numbers suddenly lost their indignation and went back to playing 'Stones and James Taylor.
Needless to say, there were still
a lot of Chicanos applauding Ray
Camacho's Chicano music in Saigon, Da Nang and other wellknown Chicano barrios. Questioning students began to perceive
Chicano participation in higher
educational institutions as •cooptatlon," as an example of the

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•absorbent power" of the system.
On the other hand, many Chicanos looked at •higher education" as a meaningless validation:
a sterile certification which must
be endured in order to receive
the credentials necessary to begin to change the system from the
inside.
Meanwhile, as Chicanos conducted an internecine and at ti mes
very bitter debate over the education of Chicanos, the Anglos
were . busy plotting "solutions,"
•approaches," "programs,"
•projects," "research," and the
like. As ideologies and tactics
clashed among Chicano intellectuals, the master plan for education in California also continued, as well as local state
· college and university master
plans. The end result was a
continuous •reaction" syndrome
whereby Chicanos attempted to ·
catch up with the bureaucratic
treachery of the •system" and to
minimize its effects on Chicanos.
Chicanos were kept so busy locally, and one must suspect deliberately, on and off campus, that
state-wide issues were neglected
until the "disease" became soapparent that it was impossible to
dismiss. In issue after issue the
college Chicano community reacted to .(rather than initiated)
action even on those issues most
relevant to them.
A number of other issues 'are
of course still facing Chicanos
on a state-wide basis - from
tuition increases to teacher
preparation and licensing to affirmative action - the ramifications of which filter down to the
local level. In many cases, the
parameters have been established by the time such policies
appear at the local level and/or
campus. Subsequently, Chicanos
are only now •scratching the surface" on such matters. Moreover,
as Chicano Studies extend their
services to the com rnunity, they
continue to encounter a maze of
bureaucratic red tape that often
stifles action. The cliches are
well known to Chicanos:
•Well, we have nothing to do
with it, Sacramento made the decision.,.
"Well, the legislature passed
this new hill .•. ,.
"You understand that we are
working under state guidelines .•. "
The meaningless bureaucrat.
announcing his nothingness on
state engraved titles, supported
by a California-stamped gray
desk, passing the buck to th_e next
human zero is a scene too often
witnessed by Chicanos, and too
frequently effective.
The point i's that Chicanos are
too often unaware of the factors
involved in the policy-making
process. All the rhetoric about
the several layers of bureaucratic feces will not erase its
ability to exclude Chicano input.
Thus our continuous "reaction"
and not "initiation." We are kept
so occupied fighting the brush
fires that we don't notice.the bigger fire around us.
The r,traditional organizations
have no (or inadequate )provisions
for information distribution to
the Chicano communities on the
various campuses throughout the
state. Although there are numerous newsletters, papers and an-

nouncements, their lack ofa consistent and coherent informational base has severely limited
their ability to disseminate vital
information adequately. While
more• publications may he 1p
bridge the gap, there is a clear
need for a· more personalized
mechanism to distribute information relevant to ~hicanos in the
state colleges and universities.
If such meetings were to take
place, discussions, questions,
debates could be encouraged in
order to bring all facets of an
issue to the Chicano community
on campus. The crucial factor in
such an organization would be the
consistent participation of its
members. Only through consiste_nt attendance could the continuity of the information, and its
effective dissemination, be assured.
Various attempts have been
made to begin, to resurrect, to
restructure such an organization.
Recently the community colleges
have emba-rked on such an effort.
A case in point, at the state
college and university level, is
the present La Raza Council on
Higher Education (state college
and university caucus). Periodically the Council holds meetings
in the various state colleges and
universities, and each state college or university is represented
by two members as selected by
their respective schools. Members may he students, or faculty
or staff or community representatives or any combination
thereof. Ideally there would be
student-faculty representation.
In the past, th~ main problem
facing La Raza C.H. E. was the
erratic participation of the various representatives. The causes
were sever a 1: (1) insufficient
traveling funds, (2) inefficient
communication, (3) low organizational profile, (4) lack of accountabilftl by tollege representatives. Indeed, if they knew of
La Raza CHE, Chicano Studies
Departments did not feel that
La Raza CHE was a high priority
concern , thus representatives
came when they felt like it. or
when the meeting was in town; or
when they had an issue they
wanted aired and given publicity.
Finally, and perhaps more importantly, the wide range of differing ideologies, philosophies,
and ohjectives often hogged down

any visible or direct action by
La Raza CHE. Consequently no
one was completely satisfied.
Perhaps a more important
question was involved. Clearly
any state-wide organization can!.
not represent all "Chicanos;" the
hypocrisy of such organizations
ts manifest to everyone in the
Movimiento, yet Chicanos still
witness an occasional "news conference" by Mexican-American
leaders to state the "Chicano"
position over a certain "issue."
For this reason and others,
MAPA, AMAE, G.I. Forum, and
other established organizations
have not enjoyed the strong and
general support of the politically
active - and aware - Chicano
youth.
Thus any pretensions about La
Raza CHE representing •the Chi.cano faculty and students of the
19 state colleges and uni versities" have been dismissed. This
is not an admission of weakness,
rather one of honesty. Therefore
La Raza CHE intends to become
a coordinating group of informational accumulation and dissemination. As Chicano Studies,
MECHAS, and associated programs become an integral part
of the Chic an o community's
struggle, such information becomes even more important since
grass roots people need such information to avoid the bureaucratic obstacles the Anglo institutions are so adept at erecting.
Chicano student groups, Chicano
Studies departments, Chicano
Supportive Services personnel,
must' become much more cognizant of the role such an organization can play, and its importance. The beneficiaries will not
only be the Chicanos on campus,
but potentially, the benefits will
reverberate throughout our communities. Thus, La Raza CHE
primarily will be an issueraising organization, pinpointing
those issues that are of significance and immediacy to Chicanos. What Chicanos do as a
follow-up will depend on the actions of the representatives when
they return to their respective
campuses. This does not, of
course, preclude united actionon
a selected issue. but it does allow
for a varied response to any
question. While unity will continue to be the strength of La
Raza, there is no room for dis-

Utility ·strike stops Guild
The Buttes Gas & Oil strikers,finding widespread support, are
sweeping the state of Wisconsin
clean of Guild Wines and liquors.
In Milwaukee they have knocked
out Guild products from 141 of the
230 liquor stores in that city.
The strikers' campaign against
Guild Wineries and Distilleries,
which are controlled by Buttes
Gas & Oil, received a tremendous
boost when the • last of Racine's
30 liquor stores to carry Guild
wines and liquors broke under the
economic pressure caused by
strikers' picket lines. It was a
heavy blow to Buttes Gas & Oil
because the liquor store was the
largest in Racine with 25.000
bottles of Guild wines and liquors
in stock.
In Eau Claire, all 11 liquor
stores are clean, while in the

Appleton-Oshkosh area the strikers have persuaded 30 out of 39
stores to stop selling Guild products.
Union Vice-President Gilbert
Padilla reports that the strikers
are determined to continue with
the boycott against Buttes Gas &
Oil despite sub-zero temperatures and snow storms.
"!'he push against Guild wines
and liquors caused a massive
switch among liquor stores to
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honesty. A misunderstood or artificial unity is no unity at all.
Until Chicanos have established
viable educational alternatives,
the institutions of higher education will continue to be the main
sources of social validation
despite their obvious moral and
education a 1 impoverishment.
Clearly the number of Chicano
students at the state college and
university level has increased,
yet the number is still inadequate and not all of them graduate;
and certainly not all of them return to their communities, in body
or spirit. The college or university should not be the beginning
of the Chicanos' political education - indeed it should be the
last place for it to happen.
All of us are painfully aware
of the problems faced by any
state-wide Chicano organization
to have and maintain a wide and
consistent base of support. Nonetheless, La Raza CHE is intent
on providing a mechanism whereby it can be of optimum benefit
to a segment of the Movimiento
that has not been fully tappec;:I.
La Raza CHE deserves the
careful and serious consideration of all Chicano student organizations, programs, departments and faculty in the state
college and university system.
There are no salaries, no meetings in plush surroundings, no
conferences on pretty beachside
resorts - there is only work and to work for La Raza is indeed La Raza CHE 's reward and
purpose.
The larger issue of Chicano
participation in the institutions of
higher education can only be
speculated upon a number of other
assumptions, the most important
of which may be the following:
( 1) the creation of real and viable
educational alternatives at . the
"college" level; (2) the education
of Chicanos prior to •college;"
(3) the availability of opportunities for meaningful work to Chicanos prepared by non-Anglo,
non-schooling institutions. La
Raza CHE cannot answer these
wider questions, it can only participate in the continuing search
for those answers to free Chicanos from the invisible prison
that bars their liberation, namely, Anglo schooling. Yet, until
those answers are found, it will
attempt to retain or regain the
11 sight" of those who thought they
had been freed, but ·who are only
blind to their continued imprisonment.
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