La Voz de Aztlan · La Voz de Aztlan, February 22 1974

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La Voz de Aztlan, February 22 1974

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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

Date

2/22/1974

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Groups protest ~ffifNf'81ive Action failure
By Lea Ybarra
A demonstration has been
called by various community
groups to protest the Fresno
Unified School District's failure
to comply with an Affirmative
Action Employment Program
that was passed by the school
board.
Teresa Perez, La Raz a
Studies instr_u ctor, said at a
MECHA meeting last Thursday
that a demonstration is sched-

uled for Feb. 28, in front of the
district's admjnistration building located at Mariposa and
"M" streets from 3:30 to 5 p,m.
She said it was hoped that the
demonstrators will attend the
school board's meeting at Tioga .
Junior High School at 7 p.m.
The pro gr a m , which the
F resno School Board approved
last November, was to be a
seven-year plan to reach its
stated goals of achieving parity

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in hirin&i "quallfied certificated
afE(sla~ijiJcJ 4thnic minority
personnel so that the ratio of
minority personnel equals the
'1°rity stuo
:!~.~~t populanth
noUnifiedSchool
District."
"They either forgot the affirmative action program, which
they adopted, or they don't plan
on carrying it out," said Senora
Perez.

If no action is taken before
March 1, no ~hicano or other
minority teacher will be added
this year since all new teachers
must be hired before then, said
Senora Perez.
A motion to help in organizing
CSUF students for the demonstration was passed by MECHA
and a committee was formed to
assist in organizing the protes.t.
Ernesto Martinez, .La Raza

[~o &ihne·
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Farah workers strike
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for wages, union

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Over 3,000 Chicano workers,
8 5 per cent of whom are women,
and most of whom are .the primary supporters of their families are on strike against the
Farah Manufacturing Company
of Texas and New Mexico, in
one of the worst worker-management battles since the 1930's.
The strike is being fought over
low wages and the right to union
presentation.

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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
California State University, f"resno
LXXVlll/83
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1974

Voz y Voto needs
assistants for voter
US: exploited border to border registration drive
Saga of Mexican women ,n

SAN DIEGO (CNS) -- Working
here are several thousand women who live as fugitives, withstanding criminal exploitation,
sublegal employment practices,
and sexual attacks.
They enjoy few of the civil
liberties and protections guaranteed by the Constitution because they are not U.S. citizens.
They are Mexican women who
cross the border any way they
can to work here as domestics.
Some work here legally after
obtaining labor certifications.
The great majority come illegally.
Estimates put the number of
illegals at between 2,000 and
10,000. About 3,000 or 4,000
seems to be the consensus among
authorities.
For their American employers, the arrangement is comfortable. Families, who in other
areas probably could not afford
housekeepers, hire live-in Mexican maids who generally will
work for $10 to $15 less a week
than their American counterparts.
For the Mexican women too,
the exchange is beneficial because they can earn much more
here than in Mexico. In Tijuana,
the maids at the bottom end of
the social ladder earn as little
as $1 for eight hours' work.
Here, maids can earn up to about
$20.
• The saga of many Mexican
women who come here· to work
illegally_• reads like the misadventures ·of Oliver Twist
tossed about at the mercy of
money-hungry exploiters. The
story begins even before they
step over the border.
It!s in Tijuana where the
maids learn about those men
with the shiny new cars who
stand on Tijuana's street corners and advertise their services.
"Go to America where you'll
· have a s.ecure job,,, they shout.
"We'll take you to San Diego

for $50, to Los Angeles for $200,
to 8an Francisco for $400. No
troubles."
"They live like kings, those
men," said one maid who paid
the men to smuggle her across
the border after her card had
been taken away. "They smuggle
maybe a dozen people across the
border every night."
Some sneak their clients over
the border at the crossing station.
Robert Coffman, officer in
charge at the San Diego Immigration Office, estimates that 25
per cent of the cards used by
Mexican nationals to cross the
border are counterfeit.
There are also middlemen _both in Tijuana and here - who
operate as employment agen!'.!ies.
In Mexico, newspaper and radio
advertisements announce a surfeit of ready-to-work maids. The
women simply wait for an employer to pay the fee, pick them
up and whisk them away to parts
unknown.
In San Diego there are also
employment agencies, some of
which specialize in the placement of domestics. The Immigration and Naturalization office
here has had no recent complaints of San Diego-based agencies placing illegal maids. · ·
Once the women ·get across the
border, the second chapter of
their story begins - · with a decision. They have two choices:
they can work in several houses
on a daily basis, or they can
work and live in one.
There are severe · disadvantages to both.
The daily housekeeper .has to
rlsk getting across the border
every morning. She also has to
pay a couple dollars for transportation, usually via Greyhound
from near. the border. But she
earns more money than the livein.
The live-in maid usually earns
between :;;25 and $35 a week, for
five to seven days' work. The
hours are longer, and usually
includa cooking and child care.
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Studies in~tructor, urged students .to ·participate.
"This will affect many of you
here today ,.especially those that
are education majors," he said.
Some of the other .organizations which will participate in
Thursday's demonstration are:
MAPA, AMAE, El Concilio, La
Asociacion Educati va de PaJires
Mexicanos and the Qhicano Advisory Board.

Deputy registrars are needed
by Voz y Voto to help in its
current voter registration drive
for the coming governmental
elections.
The only qualifications needed
are: to be a registered voter;
register at least four people a
month; and be a U.S. citizen.
For further information contact Hector Vasquez at 2270014; Cruz Bustamante - 2264114; or the Al Villa Headquarters at 486-8470.

The Chicano's effort to form a
union at Farah has run through
an obstacle course common in
the Southwest - a tyrannical employer, a community and local
news media easily influenced to
ignore the strike and a large
number of time consuming legal
devices for the company to dodge
behind. The use of armed guards
and police dogs, the busing of
strikebreakers from Mexico and
the arrest of more than 1,000
strikers, are but a few of the
injustices that workers on strike
have had to suffer.
The strike started on May 3,
1972, when workers in the San
Antonio plant left their jobs in
protest of the company's unfair
. labor practices, among which
were included the firing of several workers engaged in legal
union activities. The strike rapidly spread to the other Farah
plants.
Wages at Farah, the largest
maker of men's slacks in the
U.S. are $1.70 an hour, $2.20
after 20 years. High production
quotas are used to deny raises

and force older workers to quit
before retirement. Women lose
all their seniority when they
take maternity leave, without
pay. The workers are treated
like machiries. There is no job
security, and grievance committees are fired en masse.
The Chicanos employed in the
plants are bei'ng exploited in the
worst possible way. The acts of
intimidation visited upon the
workers are the Company's
means of preventing Chicanos
from securing a better economic
way of life, plus dignity and
freedom for themselves and
their families. · In order to hasten the end of
the strike and a better life for
the Farah employees, theAmalgamated Clothing Workers has
launched a nationwide consumers education boycott. Support for the strikers and boycott
continues to grow in all of the
cities and states across the nation. The National AFL-CIO has
made the Farah Boycott a major concern and the boycott is
being backed by the entire labor
movement.
At the same time, numerous
leaders in the polilical, social
and cultural fields have endorsed
the strike and the boycott, i.e •.
Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator Gaylord Nelson, Governors
Lucey of Wisconsin and Gilligan
of Ohio. Also, Catholic Bishops
nationwide and many local councils of Churches and leaders in
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Educated Chica-nos must.· leod
racial stereotyping battle

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LA VOZ· llE AZTLAN
Editor . . . . . . . M.elissa Villaneuvn
Reporters . . . . . . . . Lorry Romero,
J unet Morris, Lea Ybarra ,
Steve Soriano , . Cruz Bustamantl.',
Guillermo Lopl•z . Larry Leo n
Regular Collegian Staff • . Marc Sani
Photographer . . . . . . . . Barry Wong

FRESNO~
COMMUNITY THEATER·
PRESENTS

~acuity-student 'honeymoon' ends
By Sipriano Martinez
There is no reason for students to fear collective bargaining trends of faculty unions,
unless students hesitate to act.
There are student leaders·. in

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apartments fnm $110.
Discover Meadow
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With everything under the
sun. Pools. Tennis courts.
Volleyball courts.

respond apathetically to campus
affairs. There is no need tofear
loss of campus student power if
studen.ts do not hesitate to _flex
their power when necessary.
During the sixties, students
and faculty joined forces to obtain rights that were unjustly
denied by administrators. These
coalitions were natural bonds
against a common foe.
The beneficial advantages of
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 1)

Cc1lifornia who fear the power 'of
faculty unions . Many believe

COMMENTARY
students will become a powerless third party on college campuses as a result.
Faculty unions have every
right to work for collective bargaining power at the expense of
students if students continue to

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these coalitions far outweighed
the differences that existed between students and faculty.
The apathy shown by college
students on national, state, and
local issues has lessened the
advantage of a bilateral coalition
· for the faculty. To the faculty
there are no benefits in carrying
dead weight.
There are many reasons to
believe that a collective bargaining bill fot professors will
be passed by the Caltfornia legislatures within the near future.
When that bill ls passed, students
will suddenly be confronted with
the following realities:
1. That increases in salaries
and fringe benefits won by the
faculty unions will come out of
student pockets in the form of
"disguised tuition."
2. That faculty strikes may
mean an extra semester or two
in school.
The "honeymoon" atmosphere
between faculty and students has
ended. This does not mean that
faculty and students must gather
around opposite poles, but that
each must acknowledge and respect their differences. Each
group must work together to
minimize their differences in
order for both to attain their
goals.

Farah ·
(Continued from Page 1)
the Jewish and Protestant communities have lent their support.
If you want to help, DON'T
BUY FARAH PANTS and educate
your family and friends about the
strike and the boycott.
Farah pants are sold under the
serial numbers RN 43914 and
RN 21201 and use the following
labels:
FARAH
PASSPORT
CLUB 20
DAIRE
GOLDEN SCROLL
KAINROD
RUF' N RURAL TWILL
SU PAR JEANS
CLASSIC 20's
CLIFF MARK
BEAU MARK
For further information contact Lea Ybarra in La Raza
Studies.

Trabaiadores set fund-raiser
Los Trabajadores de La Raza
announced today that a fundraising party will be held on
-March 1, to help the organization and discuss some ideas on
how · to improve the chapter.

Fri.. Fe.b. 22, 1974 .;..J11E

DAILY_ CO J..~GJAN- 3

Rachel Maldonado, vice-president; Ciro Hernandez, secretary; and Enrique Rodriguez,
treasurer.
The group's next general
meeting will be held on March
16 at 3779 E. Harvey from 9 a.m.
to 12 noon.

The organization promotes and
engages in "human services"
and assists in the development
at these services · to La Raza
community, according to Alfonso
Hernandez, a member of the
gr.oup.

Food drive for strikers
The MECHA Organizations of
CSUF , FCC and Reedley College are having a food drive for
the Farah strikers. They are
asking for anyone interested to
bring a can of any no·n-perishable item to Room 305 in the
College Union.

•Los Trabajadores functions
to encourage all students within
the school to acquire the skills
and knowledge necessary for
providing competent and meaningful social services to the
Chicano community," said Hernandez.

Collection will end this Tuesday , Feb. 26.

Hernandez feels that students
are encouraged to become involved in the processes within
the School of Social Work that
helps determine its capacity for
meeting the needs of the students, school, and the total com fDUnity . .

(Editor's Note: MECHA and
the Farah strikers are asking
for your help. To contribute one
can of food takes little effort,
but it's these little efforts that
go a long way. Please help make
this Easter a better one for the
strikers. Bring :vour contribu. tions to Room 3U:> in the College
Union before February 26,)

Felix Delg~do was ·e 1e ct e d
president of Los Trabajadores at
the Feb. 9 meeting.
Other officers elected were:

TRUE GOSPEL REVIVAL CENTER
515 South Fulton
Fresno, California 93721
Prayer and Bible Study: Tuesday - 7:30 p,m.
Evangelistic Crusade: Friday and Saturday - 7:30 p.m.
Sunday School: Sunday - 12:00 Noon
Mid-day Worship: Sunday - 2:30 p.m.
William C. Perry, Pastor - Joe Salazar, Associate Pastor

St. Paul's Catholic Chapel at Newman Center
1572 E. BARSTOW AVE. - Phone 439-4641
MASSES: Sundays 7:30 - 9 - 11
MASSES: Monday through Friday, 5 p.m.; Wed., 7:30 p.m.
CONFESSIONS: Saturdays, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Sat. 5 p.m. Mass (For Sun. Op.)
Rev. Sergio P. Negro and Rev. W. Minhoto, Chaplains

Millbrook United Presbyterian Church ·
3620 N. MILLBROOK (Between Shields & Dakota)
MORNING WORSHIP 9 & 11:00 A.M.
College Fellowship: 6:00 p.m. Sunday; Potluck & Bible Study
CHANCEL CHOIR - THURSDAYS 7:30 p.m. - . .
COLLEGIANS WELCOME!
Ernest I. Bradley, Pastor - Dale A. Ridenour, Associate Pastor
For Transportation phone 227-5355

~-COLLEG.E CH.URCH· Ol ClfRi$T
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EAST BULLARD (Between F lrst 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
· ·Minister: Hugh Tinsley - ?hone 439-9313

TRINITY Ll)_THERAN CHURCH
LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA
3973 N. Cedar (Near Ashlan)
Ph: 229-8581
9-10:30 AM: WORSHIP
HOLY COMMUNION - 1st Sunday
Contemporary Liturgy - Fourth Sunday 9 AM
Phtllp A. Jordan, Pastor
Carl E. Olson, Assoc. Pastor

ON CAMPUS ·
TODAY

I\ETHEL TEMPLE

The Muslim's Student Association wlll meet at 1 p.m. in
cu 308.

•JUST SOUTH OF FASIIlON FAIR•
4665 NORTH FIRST (Near Shaw)
Rev. Donald K. Skaggs, Pastor
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.

The School of Engineering will
begin "Open House" activities at
10 a.m. ·
Dr. Muriel James, noted author and psychologist, will lecture on "Transitional Analysis"
at noon in the International Room
of the cafeteria.
Baseball se_ason will open with
CSUF playing Stanford at 2:30
p.m. at Beiden Field.

SATURDAY
The CSUF Jazz Band will host
the 10th Annual High School and
Junior College Jazz concert all
day at CSUF.
CSUF will play University of
the Pacific at 8:05 p.m. in Selland Arena.
The Amerasian Festival Committee is sponsoring a dance
feat u r l n g Joy at Tenrikyo
Cllurch, · Grant and Second St.
The dance will begin at 9 p.m.
Advance tick~ts are $1, $1.50 at
the door.

SUNDAY
The Chinese Student Organization will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
cu 312.
.

freshmen, sophomores
. and juniors

Platoon

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Class
(ground or air)

Platoon Leaders Class (PLC) is open to qualified underclassmen in any accredited college or
·university. Members who enroll in th~ir freshman
or sophomore years accomplish pre-commi~sion
training in two six-week sumer sessions at Officer
Candidate School (OCS), Marine Coq>S Base,
Quanti~o, Virginia.
College juniors attend extended OCS during
the summer preceding their senior year. : ·
The major areas emphasized at 0CS are
physical conditioning and fundamental leadership training. Prove to us you have what it takes
to lead Marines, and we'll see that you have
1ieutenant's bars on graduation day.

ON CAMPUS, FOR FULL INFORMATION-ON
MARINE OFFICER PROGRAMS, SEE THE
MARINE REPRESENTATIVE.
DATE:
25-26 FEBRUARY 1974'
.

"Seven Samurai , " a Fine Art
presenta;.on, will be shown at
8 p.m. in the College Union
lounge.

TIME:

9AM - 3PM

PLACE:

PLACEMENT OFFICE

· UNITED CHURCH CE~TE~
4th and Barstow - Phone 224-1947
Sunday Worship:
9:30 - UNIVERSITY PRESBYTERIAN
11:00 - WESLEY METHODIST
College choir, Sunday 4:00 PM ·
College groups Sunday 7:30 PM and Wednesday 6:00 PM
Ministers: S. Wm. Antablin, Dona\d H. Fado, John F. Boogaert

PEACE. LUTHERAN CHURCH.
CEDAR & GETTYSBURG
Sunday Worship : 8:30 & 11 A.M. College Encounter - 9:45 A.M. Sunday
K·. Fuerbringer, Pastor
Phone 431-0858 / 222:-2320

THE PEOPLE•S CHURCH
Corner of Cedar & Dakota
Sunday Collegiate Interact - 9:45 A.M.
Morning Worship - 8:30; _9:'4&, 11:00 A.M.
Sunday Eve. Service - 7:00 P.M.
College Bible Study - Wednestiays 9:15 P.M.
.
Need a Job? Call Collegiate Interact Job Placement Service
226-0220
G. L •. Johnson, Pastor
· Douglas A. Holck, Minister of-Music
Russell Brown, Minister of Youth
Austin D. Morgan, Minister of.Pastoral Care
Hal Edmpnds, Mipister of EducaUQn ·

4 .-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN-' Fri., Feb. 22, 19744

Mexican domestics
pass taken away and I can't get ·
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back here if I go to see th~m."
She rarely has a chance to visit
One- man who says he runs
her family and friends. But daily
•a kind of free Mexican maid
life seems less hectic.
employment agency" here has
•Frequently the employers
lived and traveled in Mexico. In ,
will get very far behind in pay.
an interview he told some of the
And then they call us to have the
circumstances which have held
maids deported. That's the most
women back from reporting to
frequent way of victimizing the
work here.
women,,, Coffman said.
•one woman I know lived in a
"They also victimize them by
cardboard house in the riverbed
keeping -them in substandard
with four children. ,. She, tried
housing or lt vtng conditions or
twice to get across by climbing
job conditions.
the fence. But she was thrown
•when I was an investigator
back.• he said.
in !,os Angeles, a man had eight
children there - all illegally.
•r got another woman a job
He was victimized by a counterwith a doctor's wife who called
feiter who forced him to borrow
me to say how happy they were
$800 to pay for a counterfeit
with her. Then one day she went
green card. I'd call that extorback to Tijuana and she was
tion. Similar things happen to
n.aver heard from again. I heard
illegal maids," he said.
through the grapevine that her
All of the maids contacted for
9-year-old son had gotten hold
this article had worked at least
of some poison while she was
once for employers who refused
here and died atid she killed ·
to pay them. All were threatened
herself," he said.
with deportation by the employThe illegal alien's desire to·
ers when the women asked for
work in the Un~ted States is a
back pay.
natural outcome · of the juxtaSimilarly, most of the women
. position of two grossly unequal
-especially those who had ,
economies. The United States is
worked as live-in maids - had
rich. The Mexican women are,
suffered sexual blackmail at the
by our standards, poor. They
hands of the husbands of their
work for the rich to enhance
employers.
their lives and those of their
In at least one case, a Mexifamilies.
can maid was raped when the
But the contents of their days
wife was out of town.
·
here are dull, even oppressive.
The unpred~ctability most emThe days mean cleaning, vacployers consider a drawback in
uuming, cooking. For the live-in
Mexican domestics stems from
housekeeper, nights are spent
obstacles the Mexicans themalone . watching television if they
selves often cannot overcome.
have access to one.
Already mentioned are the probWeekends mean harried trips
lems in crossing the border.
home or Sundays with a friend
But more significant so far as
who is in the same situation.
the women themselves are con- .
For those who live in Tijuana,
cerned are family problems.
the evenings are long hus trips,
Many have several children
and · are the primary supporters
of their families. Others are
teen-agers with one or two children and no husbands.
The 1974 spring semester
"I worry so much about my
brought 8:i new students into the
son and my daughter ," one young
Educational Opportunity Prowoman said. •r pay a neighbor
gram and Planned Variations
$15 a week to take care of my
I~ducation Project at CSUF.
children, but it's been three
Throughout the semester, these
months since I had my border
students will be offered the same
suppo r tive se rvices offered all
EOP and Planned Variations
students, including tutorial as sistance, career counseling and
academic advising.
Continuing EOP and Planned
Vari ations students who received
academic deficiencies on their
last .report card and students
who completed less than 12 units

CROSSING THE LINE-Hundreds of Mexican women cross the border daily, flashing green cards and
passes at inspectors. Many of them come to work in San Diego, Calif. areas illegally as housekeepers.
Still others pay to be smuggled across in cars for hope of a better life in the United States. Some find
that life. Others encounter problems and exploitation. (CNS photo)
more housework and cooking at
home.
So. in the end , it is the dreariness of their lives that drives
many of the illegal Mexican
maids back to Mexico. The rape,
the fear, the exploitation, the
low pay are only obstacles they
overcome while striving for a
richer life for themselves and
their families.

STUDENT
RATES

EOP News

last semester should report to
the EOP office as soon as possible.
All EOP students planning to
apply for EOP or financial aid
in the 1!)74-75 fis cal yea r should
complete and return the necessary applications no later than
March 1. Applications are available in the Financ ial Aids Office of the new Administration
Building.

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