La Voz de Aztlan, May 12 1976
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La Voz de Aztlan, May 12 1976
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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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5/12/1976
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DE AZ ·T LAN
LXXX/131
WEDNESDAY . MAY
,
A special edition of THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, California State University, Fresno
UFW
boycott ad draws
-Teamster ire, new Gallocid
The local Teamsters . -Farmat Fresno State and he might just
workers Program has apparently
pull it out.
been taken ahack by a recent
"I'm not saying he wil1, I don't
anit-Gallo advertisement which
think he's seen your ad yet but
ran in The Daily Collegian last
I don't know what he '11 do when
week.
he sees it," said Powers.
The Collegian received a phone
However, in Tuesday's Collecall last Wednesday from Bill
gian, Gallo purchased an ad dePowers; business agent for the
fending their position in the unprogram. Unknowingly, the call
ionization issue and urging thEl
was received by the editor of La
public not to boycott their wines.
Voz de Aztlan.
The E & J Gallo Winery has
Tuesday, Powers' secretary
been advertising in the Collegian
confirmed the call was made by
weekly for over a month in what
appears to be an attempt to
Powers. However, afterwards he
could not be reached for further
bolster their image. They have
comment on his remarks.
also been advertising in vario~s
ln the Wednesday call, he exother campuses throughout Calipressed his discontent with the
fornia and the nation.
anti-Gallo/pro-United Farm GallQ's wines have been under
workers advertisement saying he
boycott by the United Farmwas upset that •the Collegian
workers since 1973 when they
would print it."
said Gallo signed •sweetheart"
•u you want the rear story, contracts with the Teamsters.
gtve me a call," l;te said on the
The .UFW had contracts with
Gallo from 1967 to· 1973 when
phone. "These poor and oppressed farmworkers .are just a
contract negotiations broke down
bunch of idiots.•
and the · UFW called . a strike.
Powers. said Gallo puts .,a lot
Gallo fired striking ,,•orkers and
of mone·y into your wine program _ signed contracts with the Teamsters Union.
·
'l'h, •.Boycott Gallo• -ad, which
appea-red In ·t he Monday, May 3
Collegian issue, was paid for b:y
donations . collected by a staff
member and-the editor of La Voz
de Aztlan.
Josie Mena, CSUF flnanctal
aids counselor, was recently apThe staff member, Anna Noriega, said students were shown
pointed to a consultant posltion
the ad and asked to supwrt the
to the state's Commission on the
UFW boycott by contributing
Status of Women's Governmental
money to run the ad to. counter
Interpersonal Act Project.
The project's ·purpose is to
Gallo's.
'
•we , went up to students on
develop a plan to deal with the
campus and got donations ranging
training of women for jobs.
from one cent to $1, • she said • .
Mena was selected along with
nine other women out of 100
'~This was an attempt at a constatewide applicants by a fivestructive protest to show Gallo
the , general public supports the
member committee~
She will be representing the
farmworkers and will not forget
League of Mexican-American
the injustice done by Gallo."
She· said ·. enough money was
Women at the project operating
out of Sacramento.
gathered in sixty minutes to bu:v
·Josie Menci ·gets ,'.
~tate
pos.iti9h··f, ··,
the same size ad Gallo had been
running.
Following the intial effort, she
said, the project was turned over
to the CSUF UFW Committee of
MEChA to continue.
Juan Perez, spokesperson. said
the counter ads will run as long
as Gallo runs theirs in the Collegian.
"We were aware,of Gallo's ad
when they first started running
the ad and had considered some
kind of protest," said Perez. •But
at the ti me we were caught up
heavily_in the initiative drive for
the A.L.R.A."
.
He said the committee will
now take over the project and at
last week's MEChA- meeting com- ·
mended the independent action
taken by the students in starting
the drive.
Prior to Easter vacation, the
committee di4 stage a protest in
the Free Speech area which was
participated. in by the Selma U FW
office and union members:
Perez said - this pic~et was to
Gallo has responded to protests by friends and supporters of
the United Farmworkers in recent Boycott Gal lo a?s. Last month, ·
the campus UFW Committee staged a demonstration as the labor
struggle continues.
Chicana conferencia
•
ID Stanford\Sat., Sun.
·· Ast~tewideChicanaconference -
tiva said the conference 1s·a ·re-
protest· Gallo and push the inuta·- wlU be held . in Stanford . tbts ·. suit of the •need for Chicanas
ti ve. ·.
weekend. .
.to define and state our needs•
· .· Wtiat · · role -the Teamsters
•conferenci,a Sc:>bre la Cbl- · .apart from the overall women's
feitu~e s·uch speaker,s \• movement.
played ln th·e advertlsement is cana•
unknown, other than their affili- as _Francisca Flores, Olga Tala:-- ·
•we hope it wtll lend vtsibtUty
ation with
through the conmante and Dr. ·Faustina Solis.
to actions and effortsofChlcanas
tracts.
Ms. Flores will deliver the
tn the Movimtento Chicano,•said
When Powers was called Mon- · opening address at. 9:30 a.m., · Ms. Corral. · •The urgency for
day by .La Voz, the secretary Saturday, May 15 on •The Hiscommunication _and dialogue
inttiatlly said · Powers was in. torical Image of La Chicana.•
among Chicanas is great.•
After· recei.ving the reporters' Registration will precede the talk
More information may be abidentification and placing him
from 7:30 to 9:30. The Sunday
tatned through Fresno State's La
on hold, she reported back that workshops are from 8 a.m. to · Raza Studies (487-2848), or by
he •apparently stepped out" but 5 p.m., all in Cubberly Audicalling Ms. Corral in Stanford,
would 'return the call when he torium at Stanford University.
(415) 497-30~1, or (415) 327Sponsored by Chicana Colee4246.
returned later in the afternoon.
Tuesday morning, she said he tiva, consisting of Chicanas from
was in Livingston and would not Stanford, San Jose State, Santa
be back until later in the day. Cruz and Cabrillo, the conferenBy 5 p.m., she announced he cia will have five - sessions with
w.ould not be returning that day. a total of 16 workshops.
Some of the workshops include
She did, however, say Powers
There will be a meeting of the
had called last week inquiring La Chicana Sola, Male and FeComite Consejero de Los Estudmale Relationships, the Gay Chiabout the advertisement.
cana, La Chicana and political
ios de La Raza tonight at 6:30 in
roles, Chicanas and the Media,
La Raza Studies office, San Ramon 4.
Chicanas and the Population ConThe purpose of the meeting is
trol, Rape and the Chicana, Ghicanas in Literature, Chicanas in to discuss La Raza Studies and
its ,future goals. All students
Prison, Marital Violence.
A spokesperson for the Colee- are' invited lo attend.
wm
Gallo
Comile Con-sejero
meets fonight
Feminil to .meet in Fresno
The Le ague of Mexican. American Women will host the
state board meeting for the Comision Feminil Mexicana Nactonal
this Saturday.
The- Comision meets every
month to conduct business -dealirfg
with all its state chapters. The
meetings are held at different
cities to give each chapter a
chance to participate.
The meeting will be held atthe
new Sal Mosqueda Center at the
corner of Maple and Butler. The
business - meeting will start at
9 a.m. A potluck lunch provided
by members of the League will
be served at 1 p.m.
Anyone interested in learning
about the League or Comision is
invited. League officials say all
Chicanas are urged to attend.
Vets denied funds, seek own
A new Veterans Club on campus will sell sodas during Vintage
Days after being denied $66.00
from the student senate.
Th, ~u~t~ral message conveyed by Semana de la Raza is depicted in this photo by Paul Kuroda during
the fest1v1t1es last week. Semana chairperson Minnie Carrillo said while there were some obstacles the
week was successful and thanked all those who participated.
' ·
Alfredo Alvarado, spokesperson for the Vets, said they will
be selling soda cans for 25 cents
in the Free Speech Area Thursday and Friday.
He ·said their most recent fundratser, raffling off a clock do-
nated by Tito Thomas and won by
Jaime Huerta, was a success.
The club was denied a fund request of $66.00 from the executive discretionary budget last
month.
· The senate vote on the motion
to fund was f1 ve for, five against,and two abstentions. The chair
(Susan Good) broke the tle by
voting against funding and the
m·otion failed.
The La Voz staff finds it difficult to
produce this issue • • • the last one tor
the year - and perhaps forever.
Three months ago an editorial was
written stressing the need tor a minority
press and the attitudes that prevailed in
its behalf as far as Chicanos were con-
cerned.
But now we find ourselves wondering
what happened to the efforts made in·
· this •small• portion of the overall struggle. As things stand now, the embodfment
of the Chicano student movement in La
Voz de Aztlan may be seeing its symbolical termination as the death of our
Chicano press lingers.
Because of the •necessary• budget.
cut The Daily Collegian took with the
rest of CSUF's student body funded affiliates, a cutbaclc in the paper by onehalf literally spells the end of minority
editions.
To cut us back by one-half would
. dampen extremely the effect of our purpose, if we were to come out, as has
been suggested, once a month.
over seven years our spirit could not
be overcome when those few •in power•
would attempt to abolish the minority
editions in some way. But now our undoing was neatly and effectively achieved
by one of the best ways known to the
American way of life: the economic
punch.
Is there reason to believe this budgetary movida was anything more than
•there is not enough IT)Oney?" Maybe
negative press coverage of certain student leaders might suggest they had a
reason to retaliate. Mayhe even the admitted attitude of our student body president, Mr. David Price the Third, would
lead us to think we were being short-
The no-Gallo story
hy Juan Perez
CSUF MEChA UFW Spokesperson
On March 1, 1!)75, the original Gallo strikers led a march of
15,000 men, women and children to th_e Gallo headquarters winery in
Modesto, Calif. The march was a stunning expression of community
support for the UFW-sponsored boycott of Gallo wines. Countless
organizations and thelr members joined farmworkers in what turned
out to be the largest march in U.S. farm lahor history.
The march was symbolic of the UFW's 13 year struggle for democracy in farm labor. While speaking to the mass of supporters
during a rally the same day, ·chavez challenged Gallo to a secret
ballot election to he supervised hy a third party acceptal>le to Gallo
and the UFW. The UFW promised to immediately call off tlte Gallo
boycott !f the Teamsters won the election and would put up a one
million dollar bond in court, which would legally for<:e it to live up
to the agreement. On the other hand, if the Teamsters lost they
were to leave the Gallo company. Gallo refused the challenge as
they did in 1973 when the second Uf'W contract expired. This was
the basic element behind the Gallo hoycott, the fundamental demor: ratic
process to vote in a secret ballot election.
The UFW won its firstcontrolatGalloon August 7, l!)G7. The vote
was 68 out of !lO eligihle and supervised hy the California Department
of Industrial Relations Conciliation Service.
With the UFW, the workers won for the first time:
I. Hiring Hall and Seniority Systems (hiring hased on how long
they worked for Gallo) displacing the slave-type contrador systPtns ;
2. Medical Plan for medicine, doctor hills and a union clinic:
3. Pesticide protection (!l-man safety committee-farmworkers
rank highest in respiratory disease):
4. Elected Ranch Committee to hring grievances to management:
and
5.~ Fresh water and toilets in the fields.
A worker's comment was, "It was great to see farm workers at
the table with the company who hefore always gave orders.• The eon-· ·
tract has a life of 3 years and after two 3-year contracts, on March
22, 1973, negotiations began on a new contract. Gallo demanded an
end to the union Hiring Hall, and asked for sweeping changes in .tlmost
every part of the contract. Demands which would leave the workers
without any' protections. The UFW . rightfully did not capitulate to /the
demands and the contract expired on April 18, Hl73.
·
Even before the <'ontract's expiration, Teamster organizer,s wen•
reported on Gallo's property. On May 18.., Chavez requested hy telegram secret ballot elections by a third party ac<'eptahle to hoth companies ._ a_nd unions (to prove only the UFW represented the workers).
By June 26, Gallo supervisors handed a letter to the field workers:
"Today we received notice that the Teamsters Union represents a
majority of our ranch employees." That same night an overwhelming
majority of workers voted to strike. The following day June 27 the
workers struck. Bob Gallo admitted to the Modesto R~~ that a c'ompany bus returned empty from the main labor camp in Livingston.
On July 3, a delegation of priests and nuns from 1\-todesto and Stockton asked Bob Gallo for third party supervised election. He refused
but said he would accept a check· of ~uthorization ~ards (standard
procedure in the union-management labor relations). By July 6,
Sister Joyce Higgins of St. Mary's Parish in Stockton held UFW
representation cards of 173 of 222 workers on the April 18 payroll,
the day the contract expired. Bob Gallo refused to answer her telegrams of return her calls.
On July 10, Gallo signed a four-year contract with the Teamsters,
taking away all the gains won through the UFW. In justification of
the contract Bob Gallo announced he had •13a signatures turned in
by the Teamsters." UFW tiled suit to produce those signatures.
Even to this day these signatures have never been produced.
The strike was or:i and Gallo followed this action by telegramming
all striking workers: •we hired someone today to do your job and
you have been permanently replaced." Then on July 8, eviction notices were served to 71 families. This clearly demonstrated the
fai:mworkers vulnerability to the growers' power. The jailing of 60
strikers follow~. The situation was occurring simultaneously
throughout Caltfornia as other growers followed Gallo's example.
It was obvio~ that the tiny union was being attacked in an attempt to
· kill the farmworker's only true union. With no ALRB to protect them,
the UFW called for a national consumer boycott of all Gallo wines,
lettuce and grapes.
By the end of the summer of 1973, two farmworkers lay dead,
thousands injured, and thousands jailed for defending their right to
remain with the union ofthelr choice. Currently there exists a major
battle on college campuses because Gallo has launched an intensive
campaign to advertise its products in campus newspapers. To date
it ts clear that student support of the Gallo boycott remains strong.
A recent Harris Poll Survey indicated that over 8 million Americans
are boycotting Gallo and of this group the highest percentage is among
the college educated.
.
changed, when at a Media Council meeting this Spring he said, •It was never
my intention to get rid of The Daily
Collegian. It was my intention to get
rid of the minority editions.•
But an important factor in achieving
.this is through a method which reflects
our visibility. To succumb to a column
inside a regular edition is a step b~ckwards at a time when the movimiento
is at a crossroads where a decisive
step forward is needed.
The situation as brought to the limetight by the Chicanos of the late sixties
is not easily neutralized in seven years.
It is not a matter of "are we ready to
melt into the pot" ••• for our strong
cultural roots cannot be that easily
forsaken ••. again. For many Chicanos,
a strong fight will ensue first.
To . Chicanos . • . that is where we
stand. The physical image of La Voz,
and what it once represented every time
it appeared, is in dire jeopardy. We
had our chance to play the game in one
area, the student elections, and what
happened? Now we must try in another
area . . . the rebuil~ing of La Voz'
future in particular, and the possible
redirection in el movimiento.
PON TANT AS OPORTUNIDADES HOY,
SI FRACASAMOS ES SOLO NUESTRA
CULPA.
To non-Chicanos .•• it's not easy to
try to capsulize WHY we need an entire
minority edition. It's been said, demonstrated, written, and died for s.o many
ti mes over throughout our struggle. It
can qnly be hoped that the CSUF atmosphere is not closing its mind to this
necessity.
-"But . • . it's only fair we all take a
proportional cut." Where was that word
"fairness" decades ago for Chicanos?
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Teamsters rescue GcillO?
The United Farmworkers Union has long contended there is a Teamster-Gallo collusion - with
sweetheart contracts and the like - to kill the
farmworkers' struggle for better living and ,vorking conditions.
A recent incident markedly accents that charge.
Last week's irate phone call by a local Teamster
representative complaining about an anti-Gallo
advertisement bought by students, clearly shows
the continued courtship of these two giant institutions.
The local Teamster official condescendinglv
said the Gallo brothers might not like the Colle·gian to be doing things like that.
Gallo puts "a lot of money into your wine program at Fresno State and he might just pull it
out," he warned.
Very interesting.
But also very stupid. since it shows the close
working relationship between the two sweethearts
as they stroll between the grape rows trampling
over the toil and lives of the farmworkers the
mighty truckers' union is supposed to be representing in their struggle against the giant winery.
Whatever became of the militant union's pugnacity when it came to dealing with management labor's traditional enemy?
After the students' ad and the Teamsters' gallant gestures on behalf of the world's largest
winery, Gallo purchased equal space to fiaunt their
current workers' wages and fringe benefits.
They failed to mention it took the UFW to initiate
a farmworkers' union to fight for those rights,
previously granted all other industries.
The Teamster-Gallo ad also glorifies the recent
state-sponsored elections which show the truckers'
union winning the majority of farmworker votes IF -- the 117 contested votes are not counted. And
they triumphantlr -state the elections are being
checked by the A.L.R.B. They fail to mention that
the A.L.R.B. has been made impotent by the likes
of agricultural interests such as Gallo. It is blazoned across headlines throughout the country that
farmer and grower groups (along with their area
legislators) have contrived to kill the board until
changes favoring them are put in.
The nation ·s biggest union and biggest. winery
should drop this facade.
When a union representative labels farmworkers
as •just a bunch of idiots" and a giant company
proudly highlights the unionization of its workers
and a state board it wants to see disbanded, it
is time to realize the two have common goals.
Neither of the giant institutions care about the
farmworkers.
Perhaps the UFW's Gallo Boycott should be
changed to the Gallo-Teamster Boycott since it
seems to be the same company.
Wednesday, May 12, 1976
Me chingo· o-tra vez
THE_· pAILY COLLEGIAN-3.
The stories on th.is page are by Chicanos involved in
Chicano-directed writing classes in the La Raza Studies Program.
by M anue 1 Iba11e z
"You missed both of the signs that are marked
with an M. This means you failed the traffic signs
test. You have to study and come back another
day." This is what the examiner told my father
when we went to . renew his drivers license.
gives my father the traffic signs to identify before
he can take the written drivers test. My father
doesn't lil.ce to take the traffic signs test because
he always fails them the first time he goes.
"Y si esta la vieja?"
~ "No, no esta: r:ni compadre Andres me dijo
que no estaba el dia que fue el."
.
We were on our way and I was driving. My dad
, was studying a written drivers test that his compadre gave to him. Then very slowly raising his
head away from the paper he said,
"Y si esta la chingada vieja?"
"No te apures. Si esta y te da los sjgns, tu los
· sabes; que tiene! ·•
"Si," - silence - "pero pinche vieja!"
We arrived at the Depart_m ent ofMotorVehicles,
It began early in the morning at about 7: 30 a.m.
My father and I were getting dressed and ready to
go try· and get his drivers license renewed at
Coalinga, a town about 27 miles from where we
live.
Our conversation went like this:
"Hey pop, have you studied? n
"Si, un poco. Me dijeron que ya no esta la
vieja cat.>rona. n La vieja is the woman that works
at the department of motor vehicles. She always
I could ·n 't believe · it 'cause I
.n ever got Sent home before •••
by Rosa Maria Mendoza
As soon as she appeared at the door, the teacher
would tell us to stop our work.
Again, today, she was here.
W.e all recognized her hy the white clothes she
always wore.
·
No one would say a word except for the blondies,
who would sit there, waiting to laugh at whoever
got sent home this time.
Everyone would sit still while she came around
with tongue depresser in hand (which she used
so as not to dirty her hands), to check every Chicano and Negrito. Tony was the firsf to go, and
I knew for sure that Jackie would get sent. They
were aiways the first to go.
I would hold ·back the anger I felt, as she clumsily
went through the hair that my mother had carefully
brushed that morning, Again I would have to make
up another excuse fo give my mother. because I
was too ashamed to tell her the truth.
"This one has 'em." I couldn't believe it 'cause.
I had never got sent before. "Don't give us any
trouhle now, and go to the office like a good girl,•
she said. She took my arm and walked me to the ·
door, then she turned and went back to her "job."
I had to think fast. When I saw tne bathroom I
ran in anrt hid behind the trash can.
• '
When recess started, I poked my head out the
door, to check for teachers, I didn't see any but
I saw my best friend.
We spent .t he rest o( recess time thinking of
names to call the woman in white, while we tried
to fix my hair.
How many fqthers are be~ng
_
by Richard Vasquez
his old Chevy. As soon as the car had stopped I
would run up to him and ask what he had bought
me. He would then give me a box of Cracker Jacks.
Digging my hand into the bottom of the box I
would eagerly search for the secret prize. Unfortunately I would lose a third of the popcorn when
my hand was ·on the way out from the crapted
bottom.
My mother would greet him at the door-with a
kiss as he walked into his home thoroughly beaten
from another day 1 s work. As soon as I had enough
room to run and gather some speed I would jump
on my father's back and ask for a ride.
I knew the consequence of jumping on his back
would mean I would be covered with peach fuzz·
for he had been picking peaches all day. That was
all right because the ride was worth the washing
up afterwards. My mother would tell me with a
tone of harshness in her voice to get down. But
today would be no exception and he would grant
me my ride around the, kitchen.
,
I remember how hard and prickly the whi,kers
from under his chin would feel against my forearm
in our daily ride. After having supper, we would
settle down to our regular routine. My mother and
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I would watch T. V. while my father would sit in
his corner of the couch and fall immediately into
a deep sleep. Around 10 o'clock my mother would
be ready to go to bed and m-y father would still be
asleep on the couch.
Sometimes she woke him up so he could go to
sleep in bed and other times she just let him sleep,
still sitting up in the corner of the couch, until the
morning brought another day's work.
~ When I look back on this scene now that ,my
father has long since passed away, because of an
il_lness as a direct result of being overworked,
I think of how ·many other fathers are being murdered in the fields.
When looking back and trying to remember what
it was like when my father was around, the scene
which I have described is the most vividly implanted picture in my -mind, It's about the only
thing I can remember about him,
- Perhaps this is the Lord's way of kicking me in
the ass when I feel like throwing my school books
into the lake. I will not be put down into the position
where I have to work in the fields as a living as
my father was forced to do.
I guess the U.F.W. bumper sticker sums _it up
pretty well when it proclaims, "There's Blood on
Those Grapes."
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My dad was so nervous he forgot how to say
one way in Spanish. She showed him three more
signs, which he identified correctly. Then she
showed him another one which said "WRONG
WAY." My dad didn't know it.
She then showed the two signs he Md missed,
and pointed uut two iittle M's printed on the bottom
of the cards. She explained that anyone who missed
the signs marked with an M automatically failed
the test. She gave him a sheet of paper with the
signs painted on it and told him to study them and
come back another day.
As we walked out the door my father said, •vieja
hija de su chigada madre. Me chingo otra vez."
· We bQth burst into laughter.
On our way home, we started talking about what
was going on - little things that were not important
which took our minds off what had happened. As
we crossed an overpass on the freeway, my dad
saw the signs he had missed on the test.
He said, "Mira, ahi estan los dos hijos de la
vieja cara de caballo" - and with that remark we
laughed an~ joked about la vieja and what ·had
happened to him.
Vintage Days MadQess
murdered in the fields?
· I remember my father coming up the dri vewa:y i 11
and as we got there my father's eyes opened up
widely. He recognized her car and said, • Ahi
esta el pinche carro!"
"El carro, de quien?"
•El de la pinche vieja!"
I laughed, and he followed up with a nutty laugh,
that seemed to say •pinche vieja, no me va a pasar
otra vez."
We went in the building and walked over to the
counter; and there in flesh and blood, was la vteja.
I looked at my father and he just shook his head up
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I told her that my father came to renew his
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she asked if he was going to take his test in Spanish. I said yes, and she said, "'He has to pass the
traffic sign test first." She took out a _deck of
cards with the signs painted on them. She showed
the first one to my dad. It had on it "'ONE WAY.•
My dad quickly answered, "One way" in English.
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4-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
'Brown proves himself
strong for presidency'
Wednesday, May 12, 1976
LETTERS
'Something seem-s a Iittle
wrong': his point of
Editor:
In La Voz de Aztlan's last is~
sue, a letter to the editor appeared concerning MEChA's position on the Bicentennial.
MEChA's position was compared
to a comic strip. We as MEChA
students do not and will not stand
for a psuedo-ltbetal's one-sided
racist view of 200 years of oppression as not being serious.
How serious can you get? People
tiave died, such as Danny Trevino who, although unarmed, was
shot down by San Jose City Police
on January 22, 1976. How extreme
can you get? In February of this
year, Woodlake High School students were dented freedom of
expression.
MEChA 's concern is in coniunction with over 60 national,
124 state and several 100 local
organizations known as the July
4th Coalition.
In Mr. Meyer's st;itement,
•Why don't all non-MextcanAmertcans protest Cinco de
Mayo," his racist overtones appear quite visibly. Does not Mr.
Meyer recognize Cinco de Mayo,
when unarmed Mexican people·
defeated some of Napoleon's best
troops, as one of the three greatest days for freedom? The other
two being Bastille Day and the
Fourth of July. IC this is too extreme, let him ask any history
professor.
Does Mr. Meyer . also deny
Mechistas · the right to protest?
The statement concerning Chicano Citizenship of Aztlan (Southwest) has never been finalized by
the United States in any document.
Also, Mr. Meyer should reread
his history of Aztlan (Southwest)
because the United States, and not
Chicanos, claim this citizenship
was granted. Chicanos have never
voted to be a part of this country.
They were forced at gunpoint to
become citizens.
We do agree with Mr. Meyers
statement, •something seems a
little wrong from my point of
view": his point of view.
Juan Noriega
MEChA Central Chairperson
Valle de San Joaquin
'Hypocrisy •• ~ prev alenl 1n U.S.
,
■
· Editor:
This is in regard to Mike R.
Meyer's letter concern 1 ng
MEChA 's position on the Bicentennial.
We as mechlstas and as campus representatives for the Chicano communJty to the statewide
MEChA antt-bicentennlal committee, know the conditions, atti. tildes, and n_eeds of ·o ur people.
Mr. Meyer,· .we· are not de-·
nounclng Ameri_ca•s b"t.rthd _a y
· (Happy birthday, America) . but
rather the ideals (constitution)
which . resulted from the 1776
armed re'velution; life, liberty,
pursuit of happiness, freedom and
justice· for all. Let us not forget,
after half of Mexh;o was stolen,
Us people massacred and gov-
ernment left in shambles, its
people were left at the mercy of ·
a ptogressing nation under the
direction of God . (Manifest Destiny and the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo). We as Chicanos have ·
yet to experience basic human
as wen as constitutional rights •.:
. The thirteen colonies' revolution was. an economic struggle
(taxatio~· wi.thout ~presentation,
Boston tea party; etc.)
J'h• Chir.ano struggle is one of
life. It · is: of our carnales arid·
carnalas ln the field who live in·
poverty. Jt is our roots across
the border and the exploitation
by the r.apltalist growers and
Border Patrol.
We have very little political
representation. The equal em-
•••
ploym"'nt law is a farce. Our people live in poverty in the barrios,
we fill the jails, the unemployment rolls and welfare lines.
I might understand how some_one or racist mentality might
believe that is our, nature.
. The · Bicentennial expresses
·th.a t we ·sbould tie proud as citi. zens (?) to .live _under such humane and free government. We as
·Chi ca nos cannot-. and wm not
participate, to do·- so·.would only
enforce the- stat~ of" J:aypocrisy
which- . is so prevalent in· U.S.
society~
Vencez:emos 1
David Gomez
Member CSUF MEChA
Anti: Bicentennial Committee
district. In auuuion, the 600,000
Editor:
Edmund G. Brown Jr. for acre Westlands lying in western
Fresno and Kings counties conPresident.
sumes
more water for its corBrown is presently California's
porate-owned farms than any
37-year-old bachelor governor,
others.
and despite the fact that he has
.been in office for only sixteen
Gov. Brown believes the
months, he is now a candidate for
Democratic party needs to be
President of the United States.
revitalized: that new thinking
is needed. In the beginning, the
Brown paints himself.as a man
governor readily admitted he
with a vision who can turn the
hadn't thought through all the is country on again, and feels his
sues but nevertheless felt the
bid for presidency has a very
issu~s would involve a full comsubstantial possibility for sucmitment to full employment and a
cess.
recognition that much greater efThe California governo'r is a
man of action and has involved · forts at conserving our natural
resources are going to be rehimself in the issues.
helped
quired.
·in the creation of a farm labor
board. Under his administration,
At a Capital news conference
the legislature has initiated such Brown stated, "l can't give you
measures as - reducing mariready made recipes on how to
juana penalties, increasing taxes solve each and every problem,
on oil companies, and permitting but I have a lot ·of energy. I hope
consenting adults to indulge their I can inspire some enthusiasm sexual provlici ties in private I think I can bring people towithout fear of arrest.
gether."
Also of interest and imporThe governor also welcomes
tance, is Brown's standing on the
other candidates to challenge him
Westlands situation.
in California, where he is willing
The Brown administration has
to debate.
concluded that the federal govBrown feels people in this
ernment will invest nearly $2,5
country are searching for vision,
billion to enrich a few landowners
and that thev are not turned on in the Westland Water District
they're not· excited and enthusiwithout any compliance with fedastic about public affairs. He
eral reclamation law (the Reclafeels he can make a contribution
mation Act proposes creating
in that area, and offers his thinkfamily farms). and that in fact,
ing and vision of where we're
if the law intended to create
going as people. Furthermore,
family farms was complied with,
he feels that only the people will
there would be a boost in crop
judge whether or not he can do
income, employment, and · the
this.
economic life of Fresno Cou~ty.
•Let the people decide" _he
Many Westlands landowners
says.
Irene Tinoco
dispute this by claiming thatonly
large-scale farming ~s ec()nomically feasible. These sarrie landTODAY
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While this ts technically' complylng with the law, the sales
have resulted in relatively few
new family farmers ·tn the rich
Ideals have proved lo be empty promises:
Editor:
Mr. Meyer, while claiming he
isn't •much of a nag-waving,
star-spangled banner type," does
seem to get a little hot under the
collar .over our Bicentennial.
This is his privilege; indeed, his
right. However, I would urge him
to look at the entire Bicentennial
picture in a more realistic light.
is neither - must have an extremely difficult time taking the
Bicentennial celebration serious,..
ly. Chicanos, Blacks, Indians and
every other American minority
group hear about the freedom
they are supposed to be enjoying
all the ti me, but what does it
mean if it doesn't exist?
Bicentennial cars, Bicentennial breakfast cereal. BicentenThe ideals , set down by the
nial Kool-Aid, Bicentennial cof•Founding Fathers" 200 years
fins ( coffins??) • • • the list of
ago were admirable, and ostentruly stupid money-making propsibly this Bicentennial celebraositions at the· expense of the Bition points to the •perpetuation•
centennial goes on and on. Mr.
of those ideals for the past two
Meyer may protest that he hasn't
centuries.
yet tasted a Bicentennial breakThe probability is, though, that
fast cereal; if-he hasn't it's only
the •Founding Fathers" are doing
because no• enterprising busidouble-gainers in their graves
nessmen have thought of it. He's
over this parficularBicentennial. · right about one thing, though -After all, their ideals have been
the whole affair has a distinctly
grossly perverted over the years
"Doonesbury" feeling about it.
and anyone thinking this is a truly
Cinco de Mayo is a celebration
free and open -society today is
of Mexican independence and if
blind or crazy.
Mr. Meyer feels like protesting
The impoverished and disenit he's more than welcome, though
franchised peoples in this nation
I think he'll find it a little lonely.
- of which Mr. Meyer obviously
The fact is, Mr. Meyer is not, in
c:opy plus
Bicentennial - regardless of any
flags Mr. Meyer might wave.
And so. to Mr. Meyer and
others of his ilk I say this:
something seems a _little wrong
to me , too. And some of us plan
to do something about it.
·
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all probability, a minority citizen
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government.
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Mechistas have seen thi_s country
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joke; its promises have proved to
be empty. In that respect all oppressed peoples have not only the
right but the duty to protest the
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,
DE AZ ·T LAN
LXXX/131
WEDNESDAY . MAY
,
A special edition of THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, California State University, Fresno
UFW
boycott ad draws
-Teamster ire, new Gallocid
The local Teamsters . -Farmat Fresno State and he might just
workers Program has apparently
pull it out.
been taken ahack by a recent
"I'm not saying he wil1, I don't
anit-Gallo advertisement which
think he's seen your ad yet but
ran in The Daily Collegian last
I don't know what he '11 do when
week.
he sees it," said Powers.
The Collegian received a phone
However, in Tuesday's Collecall last Wednesday from Bill
gian, Gallo purchased an ad dePowers; business agent for the
fending their position in the unprogram. Unknowingly, the call
ionization issue and urging thEl
was received by the editor of La
public not to boycott their wines.
Voz de Aztlan.
The E & J Gallo Winery has
Tuesday, Powers' secretary
been advertising in the Collegian
confirmed the call was made by
weekly for over a month in what
appears to be an attempt to
Powers. However, afterwards he
could not be reached for further
bolster their image. They have
comment on his remarks.
also been advertising in vario~s
ln the Wednesday call, he exother campuses throughout Calipressed his discontent with the
fornia and the nation.
anti-Gallo/pro-United Farm GallQ's wines have been under
workers advertisement saying he
boycott by the United Farmwas upset that •the Collegian
workers since 1973 when they
would print it."
said Gallo signed •sweetheart"
•u you want the rear story, contracts with the Teamsters.
gtve me a call," l;te said on the
The .UFW had contracts with
Gallo from 1967 to· 1973 when
phone. "These poor and oppressed farmworkers .are just a
contract negotiations broke down
bunch of idiots.•
and the · UFW called . a strike.
Powers. said Gallo puts .,a lot
Gallo fired striking ,,•orkers and
of mone·y into your wine program _ signed contracts with the Teamsters Union.
·
'l'h, •.Boycott Gallo• -ad, which
appea-red In ·t he Monday, May 3
Collegian issue, was paid for b:y
donations . collected by a staff
member and-the editor of La Voz
de Aztlan.
Josie Mena, CSUF flnanctal
aids counselor, was recently apThe staff member, Anna Noriega, said students were shown
pointed to a consultant posltion
the ad and asked to supwrt the
to the state's Commission on the
UFW boycott by contributing
Status of Women's Governmental
money to run the ad to. counter
Interpersonal Act Project.
The project's ·purpose is to
Gallo's.
'
•we , went up to students on
develop a plan to deal with the
campus and got donations ranging
training of women for jobs.
from one cent to $1, • she said • .
Mena was selected along with
nine other women out of 100
'~This was an attempt at a constatewide applicants by a fivestructive protest to show Gallo
the , general public supports the
member committee~
She will be representing the
farmworkers and will not forget
League of Mexican-American
the injustice done by Gallo."
She· said ·. enough money was
Women at the project operating
out of Sacramento.
gathered in sixty minutes to bu:v
·Josie Menci ·gets ,'.
~tate
pos.iti9h··f, ··,
the same size ad Gallo had been
running.
Following the intial effort, she
said, the project was turned over
to the CSUF UFW Committee of
MEChA to continue.
Juan Perez, spokesperson. said
the counter ads will run as long
as Gallo runs theirs in the Collegian.
"We were aware,of Gallo's ad
when they first started running
the ad and had considered some
kind of protest," said Perez. •But
at the ti me we were caught up
heavily_in the initiative drive for
the A.L.R.A."
.
He said the committee will
now take over the project and at
last week's MEChA- meeting com- ·
mended the independent action
taken by the students in starting
the drive.
Prior to Easter vacation, the
committee di4 stage a protest in
the Free Speech area which was
participated. in by the Selma U FW
office and union members:
Perez said - this pic~et was to
Gallo has responded to protests by friends and supporters of
the United Farmworkers in recent Boycott Gal lo a?s. Last month, ·
the campus UFW Committee staged a demonstration as the labor
struggle continues.
Chicana conferencia
•
ID Stanford\Sat., Sun.
·· Ast~tewideChicanaconference -
tiva said the conference 1s·a ·re-
protest· Gallo and push the inuta·- wlU be held . in Stanford . tbts ·. suit of the •need for Chicanas
ti ve. ·.
weekend. .
.to define and state our needs•
· .· Wtiat · · role -the Teamsters
•conferenci,a Sc:>bre la Cbl- · .apart from the overall women's
feitu~e s·uch speaker,s \• movement.
played ln th·e advertlsement is cana•
unknown, other than their affili- as _Francisca Flores, Olga Tala:-- ·
•we hope it wtll lend vtsibtUty
ation with
through the conmante and Dr. ·Faustina Solis.
to actions and effortsofChlcanas
tracts.
Ms. Flores will deliver the
tn the Movimtento Chicano,•said
When Powers was called Mon- · opening address at. 9:30 a.m., · Ms. Corral. · •The urgency for
day by .La Voz, the secretary Saturday, May 15 on •The Hiscommunication _and dialogue
inttiatlly said · Powers was in. torical Image of La Chicana.•
among Chicanas is great.•
After· recei.ving the reporters' Registration will precede the talk
More information may be abidentification and placing him
from 7:30 to 9:30. The Sunday
tatned through Fresno State's La
on hold, she reported back that workshops are from 8 a.m. to · Raza Studies (487-2848), or by
he •apparently stepped out" but 5 p.m., all in Cubberly Audicalling Ms. Corral in Stanford,
would 'return the call when he torium at Stanford University.
(415) 497-30~1, or (415) 327Sponsored by Chicana Colee4246.
returned later in the afternoon.
Tuesday morning, she said he tiva, consisting of Chicanas from
was in Livingston and would not Stanford, San Jose State, Santa
be back until later in the day. Cruz and Cabrillo, the conferenBy 5 p.m., she announced he cia will have five - sessions with
w.ould not be returning that day. a total of 16 workshops.
Some of the workshops include
She did, however, say Powers
There will be a meeting of the
had called last week inquiring La Chicana Sola, Male and FeComite Consejero de Los Estudmale Relationships, the Gay Chiabout the advertisement.
cana, La Chicana and political
ios de La Raza tonight at 6:30 in
roles, Chicanas and the Media,
La Raza Studies office, San Ramon 4.
Chicanas and the Population ConThe purpose of the meeting is
trol, Rape and the Chicana, Ghicanas in Literature, Chicanas in to discuss La Raza Studies and
its ,future goals. All students
Prison, Marital Violence.
A spokesperson for the Colee- are' invited lo attend.
wm
Gallo
Comile Con-sejero
meets fonight
Feminil to .meet in Fresno
The Le ague of Mexican. American Women will host the
state board meeting for the Comision Feminil Mexicana Nactonal
this Saturday.
The- Comision meets every
month to conduct business -dealirfg
with all its state chapters. The
meetings are held at different
cities to give each chapter a
chance to participate.
The meeting will be held atthe
new Sal Mosqueda Center at the
corner of Maple and Butler. The
business - meeting will start at
9 a.m. A potluck lunch provided
by members of the League will
be served at 1 p.m.
Anyone interested in learning
about the League or Comision is
invited. League officials say all
Chicanas are urged to attend.
Vets denied funds, seek own
A new Veterans Club on campus will sell sodas during Vintage
Days after being denied $66.00
from the student senate.
Th, ~u~t~ral message conveyed by Semana de la Raza is depicted in this photo by Paul Kuroda during
the fest1v1t1es last week. Semana chairperson Minnie Carrillo said while there were some obstacles the
week was successful and thanked all those who participated.
' ·
Alfredo Alvarado, spokesperson for the Vets, said they will
be selling soda cans for 25 cents
in the Free Speech Area Thursday and Friday.
He ·said their most recent fundratser, raffling off a clock do-
nated by Tito Thomas and won by
Jaime Huerta, was a success.
The club was denied a fund request of $66.00 from the executive discretionary budget last
month.
· The senate vote on the motion
to fund was f1 ve for, five against,and two abstentions. The chair
(Susan Good) broke the tle by
voting against funding and the
m·otion failed.
The La Voz staff finds it difficult to
produce this issue • • • the last one tor
the year - and perhaps forever.
Three months ago an editorial was
written stressing the need tor a minority
press and the attitudes that prevailed in
its behalf as far as Chicanos were con-
cerned.
But now we find ourselves wondering
what happened to the efforts made in·
· this •small• portion of the overall struggle. As things stand now, the embodfment
of the Chicano student movement in La
Voz de Aztlan may be seeing its symbolical termination as the death of our
Chicano press lingers.
Because of the •necessary• budget.
cut The Daily Collegian took with the
rest of CSUF's student body funded affiliates, a cutbaclc in the paper by onehalf literally spells the end of minority
editions.
To cut us back by one-half would
. dampen extremely the effect of our purpose, if we were to come out, as has
been suggested, once a month.
over seven years our spirit could not
be overcome when those few •in power•
would attempt to abolish the minority
editions in some way. But now our undoing was neatly and effectively achieved
by one of the best ways known to the
American way of life: the economic
punch.
Is there reason to believe this budgetary movida was anything more than
•there is not enough IT)Oney?" Maybe
negative press coverage of certain student leaders might suggest they had a
reason to retaliate. Mayhe even the admitted attitude of our student body president, Mr. David Price the Third, would
lead us to think we were being short-
The no-Gallo story
hy Juan Perez
CSUF MEChA UFW Spokesperson
On March 1, 1!)75, the original Gallo strikers led a march of
15,000 men, women and children to th_e Gallo headquarters winery in
Modesto, Calif. The march was a stunning expression of community
support for the UFW-sponsored boycott of Gallo wines. Countless
organizations and thelr members joined farmworkers in what turned
out to be the largest march in U.S. farm lahor history.
The march was symbolic of the UFW's 13 year struggle for democracy in farm labor. While speaking to the mass of supporters
during a rally the same day, ·chavez challenged Gallo to a secret
ballot election to he supervised hy a third party acceptal>le to Gallo
and the UFW. The UFW promised to immediately call off tlte Gallo
boycott !f the Teamsters won the election and would put up a one
million dollar bond in court, which would legally for<:e it to live up
to the agreement. On the other hand, if the Teamsters lost they
were to leave the Gallo company. Gallo refused the challenge as
they did in 1973 when the second Uf'W contract expired. This was
the basic element behind the Gallo hoycott, the fundamental demor: ratic
process to vote in a secret ballot election.
The UFW won its firstcontrolatGalloon August 7, l!)G7. The vote
was 68 out of !lO eligihle and supervised hy the California Department
of Industrial Relations Conciliation Service.
With the UFW, the workers won for the first time:
I. Hiring Hall and Seniority Systems (hiring hased on how long
they worked for Gallo) displacing the slave-type contrador systPtns ;
2. Medical Plan for medicine, doctor hills and a union clinic:
3. Pesticide protection (!l-man safety committee-farmworkers
rank highest in respiratory disease):
4. Elected Ranch Committee to hring grievances to management:
and
5.~ Fresh water and toilets in the fields.
A worker's comment was, "It was great to see farm workers at
the table with the company who hefore always gave orders.• The eon-· ·
tract has a life of 3 years and after two 3-year contracts, on March
22, 1973, negotiations began on a new contract. Gallo demanded an
end to the union Hiring Hall, and asked for sweeping changes in .tlmost
every part of the contract. Demands which would leave the workers
without any' protections. The UFW . rightfully did not capitulate to /the
demands and the contract expired on April 18, Hl73.
·
Even before the <'ontract's expiration, Teamster organizer,s wen•
reported on Gallo's property. On May 18.., Chavez requested hy telegram secret ballot elections by a third party ac<'eptahle to hoth companies ._ a_nd unions (to prove only the UFW represented the workers).
By June 26, Gallo supervisors handed a letter to the field workers:
"Today we received notice that the Teamsters Union represents a
majority of our ranch employees." That same night an overwhelming
majority of workers voted to strike. The following day June 27 the
workers struck. Bob Gallo admitted to the Modesto R~~ that a c'ompany bus returned empty from the main labor camp in Livingston.
On July 3, a delegation of priests and nuns from 1\-todesto and Stockton asked Bob Gallo for third party supervised election. He refused
but said he would accept a check· of ~uthorization ~ards (standard
procedure in the union-management labor relations). By July 6,
Sister Joyce Higgins of St. Mary's Parish in Stockton held UFW
representation cards of 173 of 222 workers on the April 18 payroll,
the day the contract expired. Bob Gallo refused to answer her telegrams of return her calls.
On July 10, Gallo signed a four-year contract with the Teamsters,
taking away all the gains won through the UFW. In justification of
the contract Bob Gallo announced he had •13a signatures turned in
by the Teamsters." UFW tiled suit to produce those signatures.
Even to this day these signatures have never been produced.
The strike was or:i and Gallo followed this action by telegramming
all striking workers: •we hired someone today to do your job and
you have been permanently replaced." Then on July 8, eviction notices were served to 71 families. This clearly demonstrated the
fai:mworkers vulnerability to the growers' power. The jailing of 60
strikers follow~. The situation was occurring simultaneously
throughout Caltfornia as other growers followed Gallo's example.
It was obvio~ that the tiny union was being attacked in an attempt to
· kill the farmworker's only true union. With no ALRB to protect them,
the UFW called for a national consumer boycott of all Gallo wines,
lettuce and grapes.
By the end of the summer of 1973, two farmworkers lay dead,
thousands injured, and thousands jailed for defending their right to
remain with the union ofthelr choice. Currently there exists a major
battle on college campuses because Gallo has launched an intensive
campaign to advertise its products in campus newspapers. To date
it ts clear that student support of the Gallo boycott remains strong.
A recent Harris Poll Survey indicated that over 8 million Americans
are boycotting Gallo and of this group the highest percentage is among
the college educated.
.
changed, when at a Media Council meeting this Spring he said, •It was never
my intention to get rid of The Daily
Collegian. It was my intention to get
rid of the minority editions.•
But an important factor in achieving
.this is through a method which reflects
our visibility. To succumb to a column
inside a regular edition is a step b~ckwards at a time when the movimiento
is at a crossroads where a decisive
step forward is needed.
The situation as brought to the limetight by the Chicanos of the late sixties
is not easily neutralized in seven years.
It is not a matter of "are we ready to
melt into the pot" ••• for our strong
cultural roots cannot be that easily
forsaken ••. again. For many Chicanos,
a strong fight will ensue first.
To . Chicanos . • . that is where we
stand. The physical image of La Voz,
and what it once represented every time
it appeared, is in dire jeopardy. We
had our chance to play the game in one
area, the student elections, and what
happened? Now we must try in another
area . . . the rebuil~ing of La Voz'
future in particular, and the possible
redirection in el movimiento.
PON TANT AS OPORTUNIDADES HOY,
SI FRACASAMOS ES SOLO NUESTRA
CULPA.
To non-Chicanos .•• it's not easy to
try to capsulize WHY we need an entire
minority edition. It's been said, demonstrated, written, and died for s.o many
ti mes over throughout our struggle. It
can qnly be hoped that the CSUF atmosphere is not closing its mind to this
necessity.
-"But . • . it's only fair we all take a
proportional cut." Where was that word
"fairness" decades ago for Chicanos?
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Teamsters rescue GcillO?
The United Farmworkers Union has long contended there is a Teamster-Gallo collusion - with
sweetheart contracts and the like - to kill the
farmworkers' struggle for better living and ,vorking conditions.
A recent incident markedly accents that charge.
Last week's irate phone call by a local Teamster
representative complaining about an anti-Gallo
advertisement bought by students, clearly shows
the continued courtship of these two giant institutions.
The local Teamster official condescendinglv
said the Gallo brothers might not like the Colle·gian to be doing things like that.
Gallo puts "a lot of money into your wine program at Fresno State and he might just pull it
out," he warned.
Very interesting.
But also very stupid. since it shows the close
working relationship between the two sweethearts
as they stroll between the grape rows trampling
over the toil and lives of the farmworkers the
mighty truckers' union is supposed to be representing in their struggle against the giant winery.
Whatever became of the militant union's pugnacity when it came to dealing with management labor's traditional enemy?
After the students' ad and the Teamsters' gallant gestures on behalf of the world's largest
winery, Gallo purchased equal space to fiaunt their
current workers' wages and fringe benefits.
They failed to mention it took the UFW to initiate
a farmworkers' union to fight for those rights,
previously granted all other industries.
The Teamster-Gallo ad also glorifies the recent
state-sponsored elections which show the truckers'
union winning the majority of farmworker votes IF -- the 117 contested votes are not counted. And
they triumphantlr -state the elections are being
checked by the A.L.R.B. They fail to mention that
the A.L.R.B. has been made impotent by the likes
of agricultural interests such as Gallo. It is blazoned across headlines throughout the country that
farmer and grower groups (along with their area
legislators) have contrived to kill the board until
changes favoring them are put in.
The nation ·s biggest union and biggest. winery
should drop this facade.
When a union representative labels farmworkers
as •just a bunch of idiots" and a giant company
proudly highlights the unionization of its workers
and a state board it wants to see disbanded, it
is time to realize the two have common goals.
Neither of the giant institutions care about the
farmworkers.
Perhaps the UFW's Gallo Boycott should be
changed to the Gallo-Teamster Boycott since it
seems to be the same company.
Wednesday, May 12, 1976
Me chingo· o-tra vez
THE_· pAILY COLLEGIAN-3.
The stories on th.is page are by Chicanos involved in
Chicano-directed writing classes in the La Raza Studies Program.
by M anue 1 Iba11e z
"You missed both of the signs that are marked
with an M. This means you failed the traffic signs
test. You have to study and come back another
day." This is what the examiner told my father
when we went to . renew his drivers license.
gives my father the traffic signs to identify before
he can take the written drivers test. My father
doesn't lil.ce to take the traffic signs test because
he always fails them the first time he goes.
"Y si esta la vieja?"
~ "No, no esta: r:ni compadre Andres me dijo
que no estaba el dia que fue el."
.
We were on our way and I was driving. My dad
, was studying a written drivers test that his compadre gave to him. Then very slowly raising his
head away from the paper he said,
"Y si esta la chingada vieja?"
"No te apures. Si esta y te da los sjgns, tu los
· sabes; que tiene! ·•
"Si," - silence - "pero pinche vieja!"
We arrived at the Depart_m ent ofMotorVehicles,
It began early in the morning at about 7: 30 a.m.
My father and I were getting dressed and ready to
go try· and get his drivers license renewed at
Coalinga, a town about 27 miles from where we
live.
Our conversation went like this:
"Hey pop, have you studied? n
"Si, un poco. Me dijeron que ya no esta la
vieja cat.>rona. n La vieja is the woman that works
at the department of motor vehicles. She always
I could ·n 't believe · it 'cause I
.n ever got Sent home before •••
by Rosa Maria Mendoza
As soon as she appeared at the door, the teacher
would tell us to stop our work.
Again, today, she was here.
W.e all recognized her hy the white clothes she
always wore.
·
No one would say a word except for the blondies,
who would sit there, waiting to laugh at whoever
got sent home this time.
Everyone would sit still while she came around
with tongue depresser in hand (which she used
so as not to dirty her hands), to check every Chicano and Negrito. Tony was the firsf to go, and
I knew for sure that Jackie would get sent. They
were aiways the first to go.
I would hold ·back the anger I felt, as she clumsily
went through the hair that my mother had carefully
brushed that morning, Again I would have to make
up another excuse fo give my mother. because I
was too ashamed to tell her the truth.
"This one has 'em." I couldn't believe it 'cause.
I had never got sent before. "Don't give us any
trouhle now, and go to the office like a good girl,•
she said. She took my arm and walked me to the ·
door, then she turned and went back to her "job."
I had to think fast. When I saw tne bathroom I
ran in anrt hid behind the trash can.
• '
When recess started, I poked my head out the
door, to check for teachers, I didn't see any but
I saw my best friend.
We spent .t he rest o( recess time thinking of
names to call the woman in white, while we tried
to fix my hair.
How many fqthers are be~ng
_
by Richard Vasquez
his old Chevy. As soon as the car had stopped I
would run up to him and ask what he had bought
me. He would then give me a box of Cracker Jacks.
Digging my hand into the bottom of the box I
would eagerly search for the secret prize. Unfortunately I would lose a third of the popcorn when
my hand was ·on the way out from the crapted
bottom.
My mother would greet him at the door-with a
kiss as he walked into his home thoroughly beaten
from another day 1 s work. As soon as I had enough
room to run and gather some speed I would jump
on my father's back and ask for a ride.
I knew the consequence of jumping on his back
would mean I would be covered with peach fuzz·
for he had been picking peaches all day. That was
all right because the ride was worth the washing
up afterwards. My mother would tell me with a
tone of harshness in her voice to get down. But
today would be no exception and he would grant
me my ride around the, kitchen.
,
I remember how hard and prickly the whi,kers
from under his chin would feel against my forearm
in our daily ride. After having supper, we would
settle down to our regular routine. My mother and
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I would watch T. V. while my father would sit in
his corner of the couch and fall immediately into
a deep sleep. Around 10 o'clock my mother would
be ready to go to bed and m-y father would still be
asleep on the couch.
Sometimes she woke him up so he could go to
sleep in bed and other times she just let him sleep,
still sitting up in the corner of the couch, until the
morning brought another day's work.
~ When I look back on this scene now that ,my
father has long since passed away, because of an
il_lness as a direct result of being overworked,
I think of how ·many other fathers are being murdered in the fields.
When looking back and trying to remember what
it was like when my father was around, the scene
which I have described is the most vividly implanted picture in my -mind, It's about the only
thing I can remember about him,
- Perhaps this is the Lord's way of kicking me in
the ass when I feel like throwing my school books
into the lake. I will not be put down into the position
where I have to work in the fields as a living as
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My dad was so nervous he forgot how to say
one way in Spanish. She showed him three more
signs, which he identified correctly. Then she
showed him another one which said "WRONG
WAY." My dad didn't know it.
She then showed the two signs he Md missed,
and pointed uut two iittle M's printed on the bottom
of the cards. She explained that anyone who missed
the signs marked with an M automatically failed
the test. She gave him a sheet of paper with the
signs painted on it and told him to study them and
come back another day.
As we walked out the door my father said, •vieja
hija de su chigada madre. Me chingo otra vez."
· We bQth burst into laughter.
On our way home, we started talking about what
was going on - little things that were not important
which took our minds off what had happened. As
we crossed an overpass on the freeway, my dad
saw the signs he had missed on the test.
He said, "Mira, ahi estan los dos hijos de la
vieja cara de caballo" - and with that remark we
laughed an~ joked about la vieja and what ·had
happened to him.
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murdered in the fields?
· I remember my father coming up the dri vewa:y i 11
and as we got there my father's eyes opened up
widely. He recognized her car and said, • Ahi
esta el pinche carro!"
"El carro, de quien?"
•El de la pinche vieja!"
I laughed, and he followed up with a nutty laugh,
that seemed to say •pinche vieja, no me va a pasar
otra vez."
We went in the building and walked over to the
counter; and there in flesh and blood, was la vteja.
I looked at my father and he just shook his head up
and down as to ~ay, •1 knew it, I just knew it.•
I told her that my father came to renew his
· drivers license. She gave us a paper to.fill out, then
she asked if he was going to take his test in Spanish. I said yes, and she said, "'He has to pass the
traffic sign test first." She took out a _deck of
cards with the signs painted on them. She showed
the first one to my dad. It had on it "'ONE WAY.•
My dad quickly answered, "One way" in English.
She said, "In Spanish!"
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'Brown proves himself
strong for presidency'
Wednesday, May 12, 1976
LETTERS
'Something seem-s a Iittle
wrong': his point of
Editor:
In La Voz de Aztlan's last is~
sue, a letter to the editor appeared concerning MEChA's position on the Bicentennial.
MEChA's position was compared
to a comic strip. We as MEChA
students do not and will not stand
for a psuedo-ltbetal's one-sided
racist view of 200 years of oppression as not being serious.
How serious can you get? People
tiave died, such as Danny Trevino who, although unarmed, was
shot down by San Jose City Police
on January 22, 1976. How extreme
can you get? In February of this
year, Woodlake High School students were dented freedom of
expression.
MEChA 's concern is in coniunction with over 60 national,
124 state and several 100 local
organizations known as the July
4th Coalition.
In Mr. Meyer's st;itement,
•Why don't all non-MextcanAmertcans protest Cinco de
Mayo," his racist overtones appear quite visibly. Does not Mr.
Meyer recognize Cinco de Mayo,
when unarmed Mexican people·
defeated some of Napoleon's best
troops, as one of the three greatest days for freedom? The other
two being Bastille Day and the
Fourth of July. IC this is too extreme, let him ask any history
professor.
Does Mr. Meyer . also deny
Mechistas · the right to protest?
The statement concerning Chicano Citizenship of Aztlan (Southwest) has never been finalized by
the United States in any document.
Also, Mr. Meyer should reread
his history of Aztlan (Southwest)
because the United States, and not
Chicanos, claim this citizenship
was granted. Chicanos have never
voted to be a part of this country.
They were forced at gunpoint to
become citizens.
We do agree with Mr. Meyers
statement, •something seems a
little wrong from my point of
view": his point of view.
Juan Noriega
MEChA Central Chairperson
Valle de San Joaquin
'Hypocrisy •• ~ prev alenl 1n U.S.
,
■
· Editor:
This is in regard to Mike R.
Meyer's letter concern 1 ng
MEChA 's position on the Bicentennial.
We as mechlstas and as campus representatives for the Chicano communJty to the statewide
MEChA antt-bicentennlal committee, know the conditions, atti. tildes, and n_eeds of ·o ur people.
Mr. Meyer,· .we· are not de-·
nounclng Ameri_ca•s b"t.rthd _a y
· (Happy birthday, America) . but
rather the ideals (constitution)
which . resulted from the 1776
armed re'velution; life, liberty,
pursuit of happiness, freedom and
justice· for all. Let us not forget,
after half of Mexh;o was stolen,
Us people massacred and gov-
ernment left in shambles, its
people were left at the mercy of ·
a ptogressing nation under the
direction of God . (Manifest Destiny and the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo). We as Chicanos have ·
yet to experience basic human
as wen as constitutional rights •.:
. The thirteen colonies' revolution was. an economic struggle
(taxatio~· wi.thout ~presentation,
Boston tea party; etc.)
J'h• Chir.ano struggle is one of
life. It · is: of our carnales arid·
carnalas ln the field who live in·
poverty. Jt is our roots across
the border and the exploitation
by the r.apltalist growers and
Border Patrol.
We have very little political
representation. The equal em-
•••
ploym"'nt law is a farce. Our people live in poverty in the barrios,
we fill the jails, the unemployment rolls and welfare lines.
I might understand how some_one or racist mentality might
believe that is our, nature.
. The · Bicentennial expresses
·th.a t we ·sbould tie proud as citi. zens (?) to .live _under such humane and free government. We as
·Chi ca nos cannot-. and wm not
participate, to do·- so·.would only
enforce the- stat~ of" J:aypocrisy
which- . is so prevalent in· U.S.
society~
Vencez:emos 1
David Gomez
Member CSUF MEChA
Anti: Bicentennial Committee
district. In auuuion, the 600,000
Editor:
Edmund G. Brown Jr. for acre Westlands lying in western
Fresno and Kings counties conPresident.
sumes
more water for its corBrown is presently California's
porate-owned farms than any
37-year-old bachelor governor,
others.
and despite the fact that he has
.been in office for only sixteen
Gov. Brown believes the
months, he is now a candidate for
Democratic party needs to be
President of the United States.
revitalized: that new thinking
is needed. In the beginning, the
Brown paints himself.as a man
governor readily admitted he
with a vision who can turn the
hadn't thought through all the is country on again, and feels his
sues but nevertheless felt the
bid for presidency has a very
issu~s would involve a full comsubstantial possibility for sucmitment to full employment and a
cess.
recognition that much greater efThe California governo'r is a
man of action and has involved · forts at conserving our natural
resources are going to be rehimself in the issues.
helped
quired.
·in the creation of a farm labor
board. Under his administration,
At a Capital news conference
the legislature has initiated such Brown stated, "l can't give you
measures as - reducing mariready made recipes on how to
juana penalties, increasing taxes solve each and every problem,
on oil companies, and permitting but I have a lot ·of energy. I hope
consenting adults to indulge their I can inspire some enthusiasm sexual provlici ties in private I think I can bring people towithout fear of arrest.
gether."
Also of interest and imporThe governor also welcomes
tance, is Brown's standing on the
other candidates to challenge him
Westlands situation.
in California, where he is willing
The Brown administration has
to debate.
concluded that the federal govBrown feels people in this
ernment will invest nearly $2,5
country are searching for vision,
billion to enrich a few landowners
and that thev are not turned on in the Westland Water District
they're not· excited and enthusiwithout any compliance with fedastic about public affairs. He
eral reclamation law (the Reclafeels he can make a contribution
mation Act proposes creating
in that area, and offers his thinkfamily farms). and that in fact,
ing and vision of where we're
if the law intended to create
going as people. Furthermore,
family farms was complied with,
he feels that only the people will
there would be a boost in crop
judge whether or not he can do
income, employment, and · the
this.
economic life of Fresno Cou~ty.
•Let the people decide" _he
Many Westlands landowners
says.
Irene Tinoco
dispute this by claiming thatonly
large-scale farming ~s ec()nomically feasible. These sarrie landTODAY
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While this ts technically' complylng with the law, the sales
have resulted in relatively few
new family farmers ·tn the rich
Ideals have proved lo be empty promises:
Editor:
Mr. Meyer, while claiming he
isn't •much of a nag-waving,
star-spangled banner type," does
seem to get a little hot under the
collar .over our Bicentennial.
This is his privilege; indeed, his
right. However, I would urge him
to look at the entire Bicentennial
picture in a more realistic light.
is neither - must have an extremely difficult time taking the
Bicentennial celebration serious,..
ly. Chicanos, Blacks, Indians and
every other American minority
group hear about the freedom
they are supposed to be enjoying
all the ti me, but what does it
mean if it doesn't exist?
Bicentennial cars, Bicentennial breakfast cereal. BicentenThe ideals , set down by the
nial Kool-Aid, Bicentennial cof•Founding Fathers" 200 years
fins ( coffins??) • • • the list of
ago were admirable, and ostentruly stupid money-making propsibly this Bicentennial celebraositions at the· expense of the Bition points to the •perpetuation•
centennial goes on and on. Mr.
of those ideals for the past two
Meyer may protest that he hasn't
centuries.
yet tasted a Bicentennial breakThe probability is, though, that
fast cereal; if-he hasn't it's only
the •Founding Fathers" are doing
because no• enterprising busidouble-gainers in their graves
nessmen have thought of it. He's
over this parficularBicentennial. · right about one thing, though -After all, their ideals have been
the whole affair has a distinctly
grossly perverted over the years
"Doonesbury" feeling about it.
and anyone thinking this is a truly
Cinco de Mayo is a celebration
free and open -society today is
of Mexican independence and if
blind or crazy.
Mr. Meyer feels like protesting
The impoverished and disenit he's more than welcome, though
franchised peoples in this nation
I think he'll find it a little lonely.
- of which Mr. Meyer obviously
The fact is, Mr. Meyer is not, in
c:opy plus
Bicentennial - regardless of any
flags Mr. Meyer might wave.
And so. to Mr. Meyer and
others of his ilk I say this:
something seems a _little wrong
to me , too. And some of us plan
to do something about it.
·
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all probability, a minority citizen
of Mexico; nor has he, in all
likelihood, suffered any oppression at the hands of the Mexican
government.
•
The picture is quite different
for the Mechistas anrl many others in the United States. The
Mechistas have seen thi_s country
turn i~s founding ideals into a
joke; its promises have proved to
be empty. In that respect all oppressed peoples have not only the
right but the duty to protest the
· (In the Heart of the Campus)
,
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DE AZ ·T LAN
LXXX/131
WEDNESDAY . MAY
,
A special edition of THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, California State University, Fresno
UFW
boycott ad draws
-Teamster ire, new Gallocid
The local Teamsters . -Farmat Fresno State and he might just
workers Program has apparently
pull it out.
been taken ahack by a recent
"I'm not saying he wil1, I don't
anit-Gallo advertisement which
think he's seen your ad yet but
ran in The Daily Collegian last
I don't know what he '11 do when
week.
he sees it," said Powers.
The Collegian received a phone
However, in Tuesday's Collecall last Wednesday from Bill
gian, Gallo purchased an ad dePowers; business agent for the
fending their position in the unprogram. Unknowingly, the call
ionization issue and urging thEl
was received by the editor of La
public not to boycott their wines.
Voz de Aztlan.
The E & J Gallo Winery has
Tuesday, Powers' secretary
been advertising in the Collegian
confirmed the call was made by
weekly for over a month in what
appears to be an attempt to
Powers. However, afterwards he
could not be reached for further
bolster their image. They have
comment on his remarks.
also been advertising in vario~s
ln the Wednesday call, he exother campuses throughout Calipressed his discontent with the
fornia and the nation.
anti-Gallo/pro-United Farm GallQ's wines have been under
workers advertisement saying he
boycott by the United Farmwas upset that •the Collegian
workers since 1973 when they
would print it."
said Gallo signed •sweetheart"
•u you want the rear story, contracts with the Teamsters.
gtve me a call," l;te said on the
The .UFW had contracts with
Gallo from 1967 to· 1973 when
phone. "These poor and oppressed farmworkers .are just a
contract negotiations broke down
bunch of idiots.•
and the · UFW called . a strike.
Powers. said Gallo puts .,a lot
Gallo fired striking ,,•orkers and
of mone·y into your wine program _ signed contracts with the Teamsters Union.
·
'l'h, •.Boycott Gallo• -ad, which
appea-red In ·t he Monday, May 3
Collegian issue, was paid for b:y
donations . collected by a staff
member and-the editor of La Voz
de Aztlan.
Josie Mena, CSUF flnanctal
aids counselor, was recently apThe staff member, Anna Noriega, said students were shown
pointed to a consultant posltion
the ad and asked to supwrt the
to the state's Commission on the
UFW boycott by contributing
Status of Women's Governmental
money to run the ad to. counter
Interpersonal Act Project.
The project's ·purpose is to
Gallo's.
'
•we , went up to students on
develop a plan to deal with the
campus and got donations ranging
training of women for jobs.
from one cent to $1, • she said • .
Mena was selected along with
nine other women out of 100
'~This was an attempt at a constatewide applicants by a fivestructive protest to show Gallo
the , general public supports the
member committee~
She will be representing the
farmworkers and will not forget
League of Mexican-American
the injustice done by Gallo."
She· said ·. enough money was
Women at the project operating
out of Sacramento.
gathered in sixty minutes to bu:v
·Josie Menci ·gets ,'.
~tate
pos.iti9h··f, ··,
the same size ad Gallo had been
running.
Following the intial effort, she
said, the project was turned over
to the CSUF UFW Committee of
MEChA to continue.
Juan Perez, spokesperson. said
the counter ads will run as long
as Gallo runs theirs in the Collegian.
"We were aware,of Gallo's ad
when they first started running
the ad and had considered some
kind of protest," said Perez. •But
at the ti me we were caught up
heavily_in the initiative drive for
the A.L.R.A."
.
He said the committee will
now take over the project and at
last week's MEChA- meeting com- ·
mended the independent action
taken by the students in starting
the drive.
Prior to Easter vacation, the
committee di4 stage a protest in
the Free Speech area which was
participated. in by the Selma U FW
office and union members:
Perez said - this pic~et was to
Gallo has responded to protests by friends and supporters of
the United Farmworkers in recent Boycott Gal lo a?s. Last month, ·
the campus UFW Committee staged a demonstration as the labor
struggle continues.
Chicana conferencia
•
ID Stanford\Sat., Sun.
·· Ast~tewideChicanaconference -
tiva said the conference 1s·a ·re-
protest· Gallo and push the inuta·- wlU be held . in Stanford . tbts ·. suit of the •need for Chicanas
ti ve. ·.
weekend. .
.to define and state our needs•
· .· Wtiat · · role -the Teamsters
•conferenci,a Sc:>bre la Cbl- · .apart from the overall women's
feitu~e s·uch speaker,s \• movement.
played ln th·e advertlsement is cana•
unknown, other than their affili- as _Francisca Flores, Olga Tala:-- ·
•we hope it wtll lend vtsibtUty
ation with
through the conmante and Dr. ·Faustina Solis.
to actions and effortsofChlcanas
tracts.
Ms. Flores will deliver the
tn the Movimtento Chicano,•said
When Powers was called Mon- · opening address at. 9:30 a.m., · Ms. Corral. · •The urgency for
day by .La Voz, the secretary Saturday, May 15 on •The Hiscommunication _and dialogue
inttiatlly said · Powers was in. torical Image of La Chicana.•
among Chicanas is great.•
After· recei.ving the reporters' Registration will precede the talk
More information may be abidentification and placing him
from 7:30 to 9:30. The Sunday
tatned through Fresno State's La
on hold, she reported back that workshops are from 8 a.m. to · Raza Studies (487-2848), or by
he •apparently stepped out" but 5 p.m., all in Cubberly Audicalling Ms. Corral in Stanford,
would 'return the call when he torium at Stanford University.
(415) 497-30~1, or (415) 327Sponsored by Chicana Colee4246.
returned later in the afternoon.
Tuesday morning, she said he tiva, consisting of Chicanas from
was in Livingston and would not Stanford, San Jose State, Santa
be back until later in the day. Cruz and Cabrillo, the conferenBy 5 p.m., she announced he cia will have five - sessions with
w.ould not be returning that day. a total of 16 workshops.
Some of the workshops include
She did, however, say Powers
There will be a meeting of the
had called last week inquiring La Chicana Sola, Male and FeComite Consejero de Los Estudmale Relationships, the Gay Chiabout the advertisement.
cana, La Chicana and political
ios de La Raza tonight at 6:30 in
roles, Chicanas and the Media,
La Raza Studies office, San Ramon 4.
Chicanas and the Population ConThe purpose of the meeting is
trol, Rape and the Chicana, Ghicanas in Literature, Chicanas in to discuss La Raza Studies and
its ,future goals. All students
Prison, Marital Violence.
A spokesperson for the Colee- are' invited lo attend.
wm
Gallo
Comile Con-sejero
meets fonight
Feminil to .meet in Fresno
The Le ague of Mexican. American Women will host the
state board meeting for the Comision Feminil Mexicana Nactonal
this Saturday.
The- Comision meets every
month to conduct business -dealirfg
with all its state chapters. The
meetings are held at different
cities to give each chapter a
chance to participate.
The meeting will be held atthe
new Sal Mosqueda Center at the
corner of Maple and Butler. The
business - meeting will start at
9 a.m. A potluck lunch provided
by members of the League will
be served at 1 p.m.
Anyone interested in learning
about the League or Comision is
invited. League officials say all
Chicanas are urged to attend.
Vets denied funds, seek own
A new Veterans Club on campus will sell sodas during Vintage
Days after being denied $66.00
from the student senate.
Th, ~u~t~ral message conveyed by Semana de la Raza is depicted in this photo by Paul Kuroda during
the fest1v1t1es last week. Semana chairperson Minnie Carrillo said while there were some obstacles the
week was successful and thanked all those who participated.
' ·
Alfredo Alvarado, spokesperson for the Vets, said they will
be selling soda cans for 25 cents
in the Free Speech Area Thursday and Friday.
He ·said their most recent fundratser, raffling off a clock do-
nated by Tito Thomas and won by
Jaime Huerta, was a success.
The club was denied a fund request of $66.00 from the executive discretionary budget last
month.
· The senate vote on the motion
to fund was f1 ve for, five against,and two abstentions. The chair
(Susan Good) broke the tle by
voting against funding and the
m·otion failed.
The La Voz staff finds it difficult to
produce this issue • • • the last one tor
the year - and perhaps forever.
Three months ago an editorial was
written stressing the need tor a minority
press and the attitudes that prevailed in
its behalf as far as Chicanos were con-
cerned.
But now we find ourselves wondering
what happened to the efforts made in·
· this •small• portion of the overall struggle. As things stand now, the embodfment
of the Chicano student movement in La
Voz de Aztlan may be seeing its symbolical termination as the death of our
Chicano press lingers.
Because of the •necessary• budget.
cut The Daily Collegian took with the
rest of CSUF's student body funded affiliates, a cutbaclc in the paper by onehalf literally spells the end of minority
editions.
To cut us back by one-half would
. dampen extremely the effect of our purpose, if we were to come out, as has
been suggested, once a month.
over seven years our spirit could not
be overcome when those few •in power•
would attempt to abolish the minority
editions in some way. But now our undoing was neatly and effectively achieved
by one of the best ways known to the
American way of life: the economic
punch.
Is there reason to believe this budgetary movida was anything more than
•there is not enough IT)Oney?" Maybe
negative press coverage of certain student leaders might suggest they had a
reason to retaliate. Mayhe even the admitted attitude of our student body president, Mr. David Price the Third, would
lead us to think we were being short-
The no-Gallo story
hy Juan Perez
CSUF MEChA UFW Spokesperson
On March 1, 1!)75, the original Gallo strikers led a march of
15,000 men, women and children to th_e Gallo headquarters winery in
Modesto, Calif. The march was a stunning expression of community
support for the UFW-sponsored boycott of Gallo wines. Countless
organizations and thelr members joined farmworkers in what turned
out to be the largest march in U.S. farm lahor history.
The march was symbolic of the UFW's 13 year struggle for democracy in farm labor. While speaking to the mass of supporters
during a rally the same day, ·chavez challenged Gallo to a secret
ballot election to he supervised hy a third party acceptal>le to Gallo
and the UFW. The UFW promised to immediately call off tlte Gallo
boycott !f the Teamsters won the election and would put up a one
million dollar bond in court, which would legally for<:e it to live up
to the agreement. On the other hand, if the Teamsters lost they
were to leave the Gallo company. Gallo refused the challenge as
they did in 1973 when the second Uf'W contract expired. This was
the basic element behind the Gallo hoycott, the fundamental demor: ratic
process to vote in a secret ballot election.
The UFW won its firstcontrolatGalloon August 7, l!)G7. The vote
was 68 out of !lO eligihle and supervised hy the California Department
of Industrial Relations Conciliation Service.
With the UFW, the workers won for the first time:
I. Hiring Hall and Seniority Systems (hiring hased on how long
they worked for Gallo) displacing the slave-type contrador systPtns ;
2. Medical Plan for medicine, doctor hills and a union clinic:
3. Pesticide protection (!l-man safety committee-farmworkers
rank highest in respiratory disease):
4. Elected Ranch Committee to hring grievances to management:
and
5.~ Fresh water and toilets in the fields.
A worker's comment was, "It was great to see farm workers at
the table with the company who hefore always gave orders.• The eon-· ·
tract has a life of 3 years and after two 3-year contracts, on March
22, 1973, negotiations began on a new contract. Gallo demanded an
end to the union Hiring Hall, and asked for sweeping changes in .tlmost
every part of the contract. Demands which would leave the workers
without any' protections. The UFW . rightfully did not capitulate to /the
demands and the contract expired on April 18, Hl73.
·
Even before the <'ontract's expiration, Teamster organizer,s wen•
reported on Gallo's property. On May 18.., Chavez requested hy telegram secret ballot elections by a third party ac<'eptahle to hoth companies ._ a_nd unions (to prove only the UFW represented the workers).
By June 26, Gallo supervisors handed a letter to the field workers:
"Today we received notice that the Teamsters Union represents a
majority of our ranch employees." That same night an overwhelming
majority of workers voted to strike. The following day June 27 the
workers struck. Bob Gallo admitted to the Modesto R~~ that a c'ompany bus returned empty from the main labor camp in Livingston.
On July 3, a delegation of priests and nuns from 1\-todesto and Stockton asked Bob Gallo for third party supervised election. He refused
but said he would accept a check· of ~uthorization ~ards (standard
procedure in the union-management labor relations). By July 6,
Sister Joyce Higgins of St. Mary's Parish in Stockton held UFW
representation cards of 173 of 222 workers on the April 18 payroll,
the day the contract expired. Bob Gallo refused to answer her telegrams of return her calls.
On July 10, Gallo signed a four-year contract with the Teamsters,
taking away all the gains won through the UFW. In justification of
the contract Bob Gallo announced he had •13a signatures turned in
by the Teamsters." UFW tiled suit to produce those signatures.
Even to this day these signatures have never been produced.
The strike was or:i and Gallo followed this action by telegramming
all striking workers: •we hired someone today to do your job and
you have been permanently replaced." Then on July 8, eviction notices were served to 71 families. This clearly demonstrated the
fai:mworkers vulnerability to the growers' power. The jailing of 60
strikers follow~. The situation was occurring simultaneously
throughout Caltfornia as other growers followed Gallo's example.
It was obvio~ that the tiny union was being attacked in an attempt to
· kill the farmworker's only true union. With no ALRB to protect them,
the UFW called for a national consumer boycott of all Gallo wines,
lettuce and grapes.
By the end of the summer of 1973, two farmworkers lay dead,
thousands injured, and thousands jailed for defending their right to
remain with the union ofthelr choice. Currently there exists a major
battle on college campuses because Gallo has launched an intensive
campaign to advertise its products in campus newspapers. To date
it ts clear that student support of the Gallo boycott remains strong.
A recent Harris Poll Survey indicated that over 8 million Americans
are boycotting Gallo and of this group the highest percentage is among
the college educated.
.
changed, when at a Media Council meeting this Spring he said, •It was never
my intention to get rid of The Daily
Collegian. It was my intention to get
rid of the minority editions.•
But an important factor in achieving
.this is through a method which reflects
our visibility. To succumb to a column
inside a regular edition is a step b~ckwards at a time when the movimiento
is at a crossroads where a decisive
step forward is needed.
The situation as brought to the limetight by the Chicanos of the late sixties
is not easily neutralized in seven years.
It is not a matter of "are we ready to
melt into the pot" ••• for our strong
cultural roots cannot be that easily
forsaken ••. again. For many Chicanos,
a strong fight will ensue first.
To . Chicanos . • . that is where we
stand. The physical image of La Voz,
and what it once represented every time
it appeared, is in dire jeopardy. We
had our chance to play the game in one
area, the student elections, and what
happened? Now we must try in another
area . . . the rebuil~ing of La Voz'
future in particular, and the possible
redirection in el movimiento.
PON TANT AS OPORTUNIDADES HOY,
SI FRACASAMOS ES SOLO NUESTRA
CULPA.
To non-Chicanos .•• it's not easy to
try to capsulize WHY we need an entire
minority edition. It's been said, demonstrated, written, and died for s.o many
ti mes over throughout our struggle. It
can qnly be hoped that the CSUF atmosphere is not closing its mind to this
necessity.
-"But . • . it's only fair we all take a
proportional cut." Where was that word
"fairness" decades ago for Chicanos?
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Teamsters rescue GcillO?
The United Farmworkers Union has long contended there is a Teamster-Gallo collusion - with
sweetheart contracts and the like - to kill the
farmworkers' struggle for better living and ,vorking conditions.
A recent incident markedly accents that charge.
Last week's irate phone call by a local Teamster
representative complaining about an anti-Gallo
advertisement bought by students, clearly shows
the continued courtship of these two giant institutions.
The local Teamster official condescendinglv
said the Gallo brothers might not like the Colle·gian to be doing things like that.
Gallo puts "a lot of money into your wine program at Fresno State and he might just pull it
out," he warned.
Very interesting.
But also very stupid. since it shows the close
working relationship between the two sweethearts
as they stroll between the grape rows trampling
over the toil and lives of the farmworkers the
mighty truckers' union is supposed to be representing in their struggle against the giant winery.
Whatever became of the militant union's pugnacity when it came to dealing with management labor's traditional enemy?
After the students' ad and the Teamsters' gallant gestures on behalf of the world's largest
winery, Gallo purchased equal space to fiaunt their
current workers' wages and fringe benefits.
They failed to mention it took the UFW to initiate
a farmworkers' union to fight for those rights,
previously granted all other industries.
The Teamster-Gallo ad also glorifies the recent
state-sponsored elections which show the truckers'
union winning the majority of farmworker votes IF -- the 117 contested votes are not counted. And
they triumphantlr -state the elections are being
checked by the A.L.R.B. They fail to mention that
the A.L.R.B. has been made impotent by the likes
of agricultural interests such as Gallo. It is blazoned across headlines throughout the country that
farmer and grower groups (along with their area
legislators) have contrived to kill the board until
changes favoring them are put in.
The nation ·s biggest union and biggest. winery
should drop this facade.
When a union representative labels farmworkers
as •just a bunch of idiots" and a giant company
proudly highlights the unionization of its workers
and a state board it wants to see disbanded, it
is time to realize the two have common goals.
Neither of the giant institutions care about the
farmworkers.
Perhaps the UFW's Gallo Boycott should be
changed to the Gallo-Teamster Boycott since it
seems to be the same company.
Wednesday, May 12, 1976
Me chingo· o-tra vez
THE_· pAILY COLLEGIAN-3.
The stories on th.is page are by Chicanos involved in
Chicano-directed writing classes in the La Raza Studies Program.
by M anue 1 Iba11e z
"You missed both of the signs that are marked
with an M. This means you failed the traffic signs
test. You have to study and come back another
day." This is what the examiner told my father
when we went to . renew his drivers license.
gives my father the traffic signs to identify before
he can take the written drivers test. My father
doesn't lil.ce to take the traffic signs test because
he always fails them the first time he goes.
"Y si esta la vieja?"
~ "No, no esta: r:ni compadre Andres me dijo
que no estaba el dia que fue el."
.
We were on our way and I was driving. My dad
, was studying a written drivers test that his compadre gave to him. Then very slowly raising his
head away from the paper he said,
"Y si esta la chingada vieja?"
"No te apures. Si esta y te da los sjgns, tu los
· sabes; que tiene! ·•
"Si," - silence - "pero pinche vieja!"
We arrived at the Depart_m ent ofMotorVehicles,
It began early in the morning at about 7: 30 a.m.
My father and I were getting dressed and ready to
go try· and get his drivers license renewed at
Coalinga, a town about 27 miles from where we
live.
Our conversation went like this:
"Hey pop, have you studied? n
"Si, un poco. Me dijeron que ya no esta la
vieja cat.>rona. n La vieja is the woman that works
at the department of motor vehicles. She always
I could ·n 't believe · it 'cause I
.n ever got Sent home before •••
by Rosa Maria Mendoza
As soon as she appeared at the door, the teacher
would tell us to stop our work.
Again, today, she was here.
W.e all recognized her hy the white clothes she
always wore.
·
No one would say a word except for the blondies,
who would sit there, waiting to laugh at whoever
got sent home this time.
Everyone would sit still while she came around
with tongue depresser in hand (which she used
so as not to dirty her hands), to check every Chicano and Negrito. Tony was the firsf to go, and
I knew for sure that Jackie would get sent. They
were aiways the first to go.
I would hold ·back the anger I felt, as she clumsily
went through the hair that my mother had carefully
brushed that morning, Again I would have to make
up another excuse fo give my mother. because I
was too ashamed to tell her the truth.
"This one has 'em." I couldn't believe it 'cause.
I had never got sent before. "Don't give us any
trouhle now, and go to the office like a good girl,•
she said. She took my arm and walked me to the ·
door, then she turned and went back to her "job."
I had to think fast. When I saw tne bathroom I
ran in anrt hid behind the trash can.
• '
When recess started, I poked my head out the
door, to check for teachers, I didn't see any but
I saw my best friend.
We spent .t he rest o( recess time thinking of
names to call the woman in white, while we tried
to fix my hair.
How many fqthers are be~ng
_
by Richard Vasquez
his old Chevy. As soon as the car had stopped I
would run up to him and ask what he had bought
me. He would then give me a box of Cracker Jacks.
Digging my hand into the bottom of the box I
would eagerly search for the secret prize. Unfortunately I would lose a third of the popcorn when
my hand was ·on the way out from the crapted
bottom.
My mother would greet him at the door-with a
kiss as he walked into his home thoroughly beaten
from another day 1 s work. As soon as I had enough
room to run and gather some speed I would jump
on my father's back and ask for a ride.
I knew the consequence of jumping on his back
would mean I would be covered with peach fuzz·
for he had been picking peaches all day. That was
all right because the ride was worth the washing
up afterwards. My mother would tell me with a
tone of harshness in her voice to get down. But
today would be no exception and he would grant
me my ride around the, kitchen.
,
I remember how hard and prickly the whi,kers
from under his chin would feel against my forearm
in our daily ride. After having supper, we would
settle down to our regular routine. My mother and
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I would watch T. V. while my father would sit in
his corner of the couch and fall immediately into
a deep sleep. Around 10 o'clock my mother would
be ready to go to bed and m-y father would still be
asleep on the couch.
Sometimes she woke him up so he could go to
sleep in bed and other times she just let him sleep,
still sitting up in the corner of the couch, until the
morning brought another day's work.
~ When I look back on this scene now that ,my
father has long since passed away, because of an
il_lness as a direct result of being overworked,
I think of how ·many other fathers are being murdered in the fields.
When looking back and trying to remember what
it was like when my father was around, the scene
which I have described is the most vividly implanted picture in my -mind, It's about the only
thing I can remember about him,
- Perhaps this is the Lord's way of kicking me in
the ass when I feel like throwing my school books
into the lake. I will not be put down into the position
where I have to work in the fields as a living as
my father was forced to do.
I guess the U.F.W. bumper sticker sums _it up
pretty well when it proclaims, "There's Blood on
Those Grapes."
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My dad was so nervous he forgot how to say
one way in Spanish. She showed him three more
signs, which he identified correctly. Then she
showed him another one which said "WRONG
WAY." My dad didn't know it.
She then showed the two signs he Md missed,
and pointed uut two iittle M's printed on the bottom
of the cards. She explained that anyone who missed
the signs marked with an M automatically failed
the test. She gave him a sheet of paper with the
signs painted on it and told him to study them and
come back another day.
As we walked out the door my father said, •vieja
hija de su chigada madre. Me chingo otra vez."
· We bQth burst into laughter.
On our way home, we started talking about what
was going on - little things that were not important
which took our minds off what had happened. As
we crossed an overpass on the freeway, my dad
saw the signs he had missed on the test.
He said, "Mira, ahi estan los dos hijos de la
vieja cara de caballo" - and with that remark we
laughed an~ joked about la vieja and what ·had
happened to him.
Vintage Days MadQess
murdered in the fields?
· I remember my father coming up the dri vewa:y i 11
and as we got there my father's eyes opened up
widely. He recognized her car and said, • Ahi
esta el pinche carro!"
"El carro, de quien?"
•El de la pinche vieja!"
I laughed, and he followed up with a nutty laugh,
that seemed to say •pinche vieja, no me va a pasar
otra vez."
We went in the building and walked over to the
counter; and there in flesh and blood, was la vteja.
I looked at my father and he just shook his head up
and down as to ~ay, •1 knew it, I just knew it.•
I told her that my father came to renew his
· drivers license. She gave us a paper to.fill out, then
she asked if he was going to take his test in Spanish. I said yes, and she said, "'He has to pass the
traffic sign test first." She took out a _deck of
cards with the signs painted on them. She showed
the first one to my dad. It had on it "'ONE WAY.•
My dad quickly answered, "One way" in English.
She said, "In Spanish!"
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'Brown proves himself
strong for presidency'
Wednesday, May 12, 1976
LETTERS
'Something seem-s a Iittle
wrong': his point of
Editor:
In La Voz de Aztlan's last is~
sue, a letter to the editor appeared concerning MEChA's position on the Bicentennial.
MEChA's position was compared
to a comic strip. We as MEChA
students do not and will not stand
for a psuedo-ltbetal's one-sided
racist view of 200 years of oppression as not being serious.
How serious can you get? People
tiave died, such as Danny Trevino who, although unarmed, was
shot down by San Jose City Police
on January 22, 1976. How extreme
can you get? In February of this
year, Woodlake High School students were dented freedom of
expression.
MEChA 's concern is in coniunction with over 60 national,
124 state and several 100 local
organizations known as the July
4th Coalition.
In Mr. Meyer's st;itement,
•Why don't all non-MextcanAmertcans protest Cinco de
Mayo," his racist overtones appear quite visibly. Does not Mr.
Meyer recognize Cinco de Mayo,
when unarmed Mexican people·
defeated some of Napoleon's best
troops, as one of the three greatest days for freedom? The other
two being Bastille Day and the
Fourth of July. IC this is too extreme, let him ask any history
professor.
Does Mr. Meyer . also deny
Mechistas · the right to protest?
The statement concerning Chicano Citizenship of Aztlan (Southwest) has never been finalized by
the United States in any document.
Also, Mr. Meyer should reread
his history of Aztlan (Southwest)
because the United States, and not
Chicanos, claim this citizenship
was granted. Chicanos have never
voted to be a part of this country.
They were forced at gunpoint to
become citizens.
We do agree with Mr. Meyers
statement, •something seems a
little wrong from my point of
view": his point of view.
Juan Noriega
MEChA Central Chairperson
Valle de San Joaquin
'Hypocrisy •• ~ prev alenl 1n U.S.
,
■
· Editor:
This is in regard to Mike R.
Meyer's letter concern 1 ng
MEChA 's position on the Bicentennial.
We as mechlstas and as campus representatives for the Chicano communJty to the statewide
MEChA antt-bicentennlal committee, know the conditions, atti. tildes, and n_eeds of ·o ur people.
Mr. Meyer,· .we· are not de-·
nounclng Ameri_ca•s b"t.rthd _a y
· (Happy birthday, America) . but
rather the ideals (constitution)
which . resulted from the 1776
armed re'velution; life, liberty,
pursuit of happiness, freedom and
justice· for all. Let us not forget,
after half of Mexh;o was stolen,
Us people massacred and gov-
ernment left in shambles, its
people were left at the mercy of ·
a ptogressing nation under the
direction of God . (Manifest Destiny and the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo). We as Chicanos have ·
yet to experience basic human
as wen as constitutional rights •.:
. The thirteen colonies' revolution was. an economic struggle
(taxatio~· wi.thout ~presentation,
Boston tea party; etc.)
J'h• Chir.ano struggle is one of
life. It · is: of our carnales arid·
carnalas ln the field who live in·
poverty. Jt is our roots across
the border and the exploitation
by the r.apltalist growers and
Border Patrol.
We have very little political
representation. The equal em-
•••
ploym"'nt law is a farce. Our people live in poverty in the barrios,
we fill the jails, the unemployment rolls and welfare lines.
I might understand how some_one or racist mentality might
believe that is our, nature.
. The · Bicentennial expresses
·th.a t we ·sbould tie proud as citi. zens (?) to .live _under such humane and free government. We as
·Chi ca nos cannot-. and wm not
participate, to do·- so·.would only
enforce the- stat~ of" J:aypocrisy
which- . is so prevalent in· U.S.
society~
Vencez:emos 1
David Gomez
Member CSUF MEChA
Anti: Bicentennial Committee
district. In auuuion, the 600,000
Editor:
Edmund G. Brown Jr. for acre Westlands lying in western
Fresno and Kings counties conPresident.
sumes
more water for its corBrown is presently California's
porate-owned farms than any
37-year-old bachelor governor,
others.
and despite the fact that he has
.been in office for only sixteen
Gov. Brown believes the
months, he is now a candidate for
Democratic party needs to be
President of the United States.
revitalized: that new thinking
is needed. In the beginning, the
Brown paints himself.as a man
governor readily admitted he
with a vision who can turn the
hadn't thought through all the is country on again, and feels his
sues but nevertheless felt the
bid for presidency has a very
issu~s would involve a full comsubstantial possibility for sucmitment to full employment and a
cess.
recognition that much greater efThe California governo'r is a
man of action and has involved · forts at conserving our natural
resources are going to be rehimself in the issues.
helped
quired.
·in the creation of a farm labor
board. Under his administration,
At a Capital news conference
the legislature has initiated such Brown stated, "l can't give you
measures as - reducing mariready made recipes on how to
juana penalties, increasing taxes solve each and every problem,
on oil companies, and permitting but I have a lot ·of energy. I hope
consenting adults to indulge their I can inspire some enthusiasm sexual provlici ties in private I think I can bring people towithout fear of arrest.
gether."
Also of interest and imporThe governor also welcomes
tance, is Brown's standing on the
other candidates to challenge him
Westlands situation.
in California, where he is willing
The Brown administration has
to debate.
concluded that the federal govBrown feels people in this
ernment will invest nearly $2,5
country are searching for vision,
billion to enrich a few landowners
and that thev are not turned on in the Westland Water District
they're not· excited and enthusiwithout any compliance with fedastic about public affairs. He
eral reclamation law (the Reclafeels he can make a contribution
mation Act proposes creating
in that area, and offers his thinkfamily farms). and that in fact,
ing and vision of where we're
if the law intended to create
going as people. Furthermore,
family farms was complied with,
he feels that only the people will
there would be a boost in crop
judge whether or not he can do
income, employment, and · the
this.
economic life of Fresno Cou~ty.
•Let the people decide" _he
Many Westlands landowners
says.
Irene Tinoco
dispute this by claiming thatonly
large-scale farming ~s ec()nomically feasible. These sarrie landTODAY
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While this ts technically' complylng with the law, the sales
have resulted in relatively few
new family farmers ·tn the rich
Ideals have proved lo be empty promises:
Editor:
Mr. Meyer, while claiming he
isn't •much of a nag-waving,
star-spangled banner type," does
seem to get a little hot under the
collar .over our Bicentennial.
This is his privilege; indeed, his
right. However, I would urge him
to look at the entire Bicentennial
picture in a more realistic light.
is neither - must have an extremely difficult time taking the
Bicentennial celebration serious,..
ly. Chicanos, Blacks, Indians and
every other American minority
group hear about the freedom
they are supposed to be enjoying
all the ti me, but what does it
mean if it doesn't exist?
Bicentennial cars, Bicentennial breakfast cereal. BicentenThe ideals , set down by the
nial Kool-Aid, Bicentennial cof•Founding Fathers" 200 years
fins ( coffins??) • • • the list of
ago were admirable, and ostentruly stupid money-making propsibly this Bicentennial celebraositions at the· expense of the Bition points to the •perpetuation•
centennial goes on and on. Mr.
of those ideals for the past two
Meyer may protest that he hasn't
centuries.
yet tasted a Bicentennial breakThe probability is, though, that
fast cereal; if-he hasn't it's only
the •Founding Fathers" are doing
because no• enterprising busidouble-gainers in their graves
nessmen have thought of it. He's
over this parficularBicentennial. · right about one thing, though -After all, their ideals have been
the whole affair has a distinctly
grossly perverted over the years
"Doonesbury" feeling about it.
and anyone thinking this is a truly
Cinco de Mayo is a celebration
free and open -society today is
of Mexican independence and if
blind or crazy.
Mr. Meyer feels like protesting
The impoverished and disenit he's more than welcome, though
franchised peoples in this nation
I think he'll find it a little lonely.
- of which Mr. Meyer obviously
The fact is, Mr. Meyer is not, in
c:opy plus
Bicentennial - regardless of any
flags Mr. Meyer might wave.
And so. to Mr. Meyer and
others of his ilk I say this:
something seems a _little wrong
to me , too. And some of us plan
to do something about it.
·
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all probability, a minority citizen
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government.
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Mechistas have seen thi_s country
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joke; its promises have proved to
be empty. In that respect all oppressed peoples have not only the
right but the duty to protest the
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,
DE AZ ·T LAN
LXXX/131
WEDNESDAY . MAY
,
A special edition of THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, California State University, Fresno
UFW
boycott ad draws
-Teamster ire, new Gallocid
The local Teamsters . -Farmat Fresno State and he might just
workers Program has apparently
pull it out.
been taken ahack by a recent
"I'm not saying he wil1, I don't
anit-Gallo advertisement which
think he's seen your ad yet but
ran in The Daily Collegian last
I don't know what he '11 do when
week.
he sees it," said Powers.
The Collegian received a phone
However, in Tuesday's Collecall last Wednesday from Bill
gian, Gallo purchased an ad dePowers; business agent for the
fending their position in the unprogram. Unknowingly, the call
ionization issue and urging thEl
was received by the editor of La
public not to boycott their wines.
Voz de Aztlan.
The E & J Gallo Winery has
Tuesday, Powers' secretary
been advertising in the Collegian
confirmed the call was made by
weekly for over a month in what
appears to be an attempt to
Powers. However, afterwards he
could not be reached for further
bolster their image. They have
comment on his remarks.
also been advertising in vario~s
ln the Wednesday call, he exother campuses throughout Calipressed his discontent with the
fornia and the nation.
anti-Gallo/pro-United Farm GallQ's wines have been under
workers advertisement saying he
boycott by the United Farmwas upset that •the Collegian
workers since 1973 when they
would print it."
said Gallo signed •sweetheart"
•u you want the rear story, contracts with the Teamsters.
gtve me a call," l;te said on the
The .UFW had contracts with
Gallo from 1967 to· 1973 when
phone. "These poor and oppressed farmworkers .are just a
contract negotiations broke down
bunch of idiots.•
and the · UFW called . a strike.
Powers. said Gallo puts .,a lot
Gallo fired striking ,,•orkers and
of mone·y into your wine program _ signed contracts with the Teamsters Union.
·
'l'h, •.Boycott Gallo• -ad, which
appea-red In ·t he Monday, May 3
Collegian issue, was paid for b:y
donations . collected by a staff
member and-the editor of La Voz
de Aztlan.
Josie Mena, CSUF flnanctal
aids counselor, was recently apThe staff member, Anna Noriega, said students were shown
pointed to a consultant posltion
the ad and asked to supwrt the
to the state's Commission on the
UFW boycott by contributing
Status of Women's Governmental
money to run the ad to. counter
Interpersonal Act Project.
The project's ·purpose is to
Gallo's.
'
•we , went up to students on
develop a plan to deal with the
campus and got donations ranging
training of women for jobs.
from one cent to $1, • she said • .
Mena was selected along with
nine other women out of 100
'~This was an attempt at a constatewide applicants by a fivestructive protest to show Gallo
the , general public supports the
member committee~
She will be representing the
farmworkers and will not forget
League of Mexican-American
the injustice done by Gallo."
She· said ·. enough money was
Women at the project operating
out of Sacramento.
gathered in sixty minutes to bu:v
·Josie Menci ·gets ,'.
~tate
pos.iti9h··f, ··,
the same size ad Gallo had been
running.
Following the intial effort, she
said, the project was turned over
to the CSUF UFW Committee of
MEChA to continue.
Juan Perez, spokesperson. said
the counter ads will run as long
as Gallo runs theirs in the Collegian.
"We were aware,of Gallo's ad
when they first started running
the ad and had considered some
kind of protest," said Perez. •But
at the ti me we were caught up
heavily_in the initiative drive for
the A.L.R.A."
.
He said the committee will
now take over the project and at
last week's MEChA- meeting com- ·
mended the independent action
taken by the students in starting
the drive.
Prior to Easter vacation, the
committee di4 stage a protest in
the Free Speech area which was
participated. in by the Selma U FW
office and union members:
Perez said - this pic~et was to
Gallo has responded to protests by friends and supporters of
the United Farmworkers in recent Boycott Gal lo a?s. Last month, ·
the campus UFW Committee staged a demonstration as the labor
struggle continues.
Chicana conferencia
•
ID Stanford\Sat., Sun.
·· Ast~tewideChicanaconference -
tiva said the conference 1s·a ·re-
protest· Gallo and push the inuta·- wlU be held . in Stanford . tbts ·. suit of the •need for Chicanas
ti ve. ·.
weekend. .
.to define and state our needs•
· .· Wtiat · · role -the Teamsters
•conferenci,a Sc:>bre la Cbl- · .apart from the overall women's
feitu~e s·uch speaker,s \• movement.
played ln th·e advertlsement is cana•
unknown, other than their affili- as _Francisca Flores, Olga Tala:-- ·
•we hope it wtll lend vtsibtUty
ation with
through the conmante and Dr. ·Faustina Solis.
to actions and effortsofChlcanas
tracts.
Ms. Flores will deliver the
tn the Movimtento Chicano,•said
When Powers was called Mon- · opening address at. 9:30 a.m., · Ms. Corral. · •The urgency for
day by .La Voz, the secretary Saturday, May 15 on •The Hiscommunication _and dialogue
inttiatlly said · Powers was in. torical Image of La Chicana.•
among Chicanas is great.•
After· recei.ving the reporters' Registration will precede the talk
More information may be abidentification and placing him
from 7:30 to 9:30. The Sunday
tatned through Fresno State's La
on hold, she reported back that workshops are from 8 a.m. to · Raza Studies (487-2848), or by
he •apparently stepped out" but 5 p.m., all in Cubberly Audicalling Ms. Corral in Stanford,
would 'return the call when he torium at Stanford University.
(415) 497-30~1, or (415) 327Sponsored by Chicana Colee4246.
returned later in the afternoon.
Tuesday morning, she said he tiva, consisting of Chicanas from
was in Livingston and would not Stanford, San Jose State, Santa
be back until later in the day. Cruz and Cabrillo, the conferenBy 5 p.m., she announced he cia will have five - sessions with
w.ould not be returning that day. a total of 16 workshops.
Some of the workshops include
She did, however, say Powers
There will be a meeting of the
had called last week inquiring La Chicana Sola, Male and FeComite Consejero de Los Estudmale Relationships, the Gay Chiabout the advertisement.
cana, La Chicana and political
ios de La Raza tonight at 6:30 in
roles, Chicanas and the Media,
La Raza Studies office, San Ramon 4.
Chicanas and the Population ConThe purpose of the meeting is
trol, Rape and the Chicana, Ghicanas in Literature, Chicanas in to discuss La Raza Studies and
its ,future goals. All students
Prison, Marital Violence.
A spokesperson for the Colee- are' invited lo attend.
wm
Gallo
Comile Con-sejero
meets fonight
Feminil to .meet in Fresno
The Le ague of Mexican. American Women will host the
state board meeting for the Comision Feminil Mexicana Nactonal
this Saturday.
The- Comision meets every
month to conduct business -dealirfg
with all its state chapters. The
meetings are held at different
cities to give each chapter a
chance to participate.
The meeting will be held atthe
new Sal Mosqueda Center at the
corner of Maple and Butler. The
business - meeting will start at
9 a.m. A potluck lunch provided
by members of the League will
be served at 1 p.m.
Anyone interested in learning
about the League or Comision is
invited. League officials say all
Chicanas are urged to attend.
Vets denied funds, seek own
A new Veterans Club on campus will sell sodas during Vintage
Days after being denied $66.00
from the student senate.
Th, ~u~t~ral message conveyed by Semana de la Raza is depicted in this photo by Paul Kuroda during
the fest1v1t1es last week. Semana chairperson Minnie Carrillo said while there were some obstacles the
week was successful and thanked all those who participated.
' ·
Alfredo Alvarado, spokesperson for the Vets, said they will
be selling soda cans for 25 cents
in the Free Speech Area Thursday and Friday.
He ·said their most recent fundratser, raffling off a clock do-
nated by Tito Thomas and won by
Jaime Huerta, was a success.
The club was denied a fund request of $66.00 from the executive discretionary budget last
month.
· The senate vote on the motion
to fund was f1 ve for, five against,and two abstentions. The chair
(Susan Good) broke the tle by
voting against funding and the
m·otion failed.
The La Voz staff finds it difficult to
produce this issue • • • the last one tor
the year - and perhaps forever.
Three months ago an editorial was
written stressing the need tor a minority
press and the attitudes that prevailed in
its behalf as far as Chicanos were con-
cerned.
But now we find ourselves wondering
what happened to the efforts made in·
· this •small• portion of the overall struggle. As things stand now, the embodfment
of the Chicano student movement in La
Voz de Aztlan may be seeing its symbolical termination as the death of our
Chicano press lingers.
Because of the •necessary• budget.
cut The Daily Collegian took with the
rest of CSUF's student body funded affiliates, a cutbaclc in the paper by onehalf literally spells the end of minority
editions.
To cut us back by one-half would
. dampen extremely the effect of our purpose, if we were to come out, as has
been suggested, once a month.
over seven years our spirit could not
be overcome when those few •in power•
would attempt to abolish the minority
editions in some way. But now our undoing was neatly and effectively achieved
by one of the best ways known to the
American way of life: the economic
punch.
Is there reason to believe this budgetary movida was anything more than
•there is not enough IT)Oney?" Maybe
negative press coverage of certain student leaders might suggest they had a
reason to retaliate. Mayhe even the admitted attitude of our student body president, Mr. David Price the Third, would
lead us to think we were being short-
The no-Gallo story
hy Juan Perez
CSUF MEChA UFW Spokesperson
On March 1, 1!)75, the original Gallo strikers led a march of
15,000 men, women and children to th_e Gallo headquarters winery in
Modesto, Calif. The march was a stunning expression of community
support for the UFW-sponsored boycott of Gallo wines. Countless
organizations and thelr members joined farmworkers in what turned
out to be the largest march in U.S. farm lahor history.
The march was symbolic of the UFW's 13 year struggle for democracy in farm labor. While speaking to the mass of supporters
during a rally the same day, ·chavez challenged Gallo to a secret
ballot election to he supervised hy a third party acceptal>le to Gallo
and the UFW. The UFW promised to immediately call off tlte Gallo
boycott !f the Teamsters won the election and would put up a one
million dollar bond in court, which would legally for<:e it to live up
to the agreement. On the other hand, if the Teamsters lost they
were to leave the Gallo company. Gallo refused the challenge as
they did in 1973 when the second Uf'W contract expired. This was
the basic element behind the Gallo hoycott, the fundamental demor: ratic
process to vote in a secret ballot election.
The UFW won its firstcontrolatGalloon August 7, l!)G7. The vote
was 68 out of !lO eligihle and supervised hy the California Department
of Industrial Relations Conciliation Service.
With the UFW, the workers won for the first time:
I. Hiring Hall and Seniority Systems (hiring hased on how long
they worked for Gallo) displacing the slave-type contrador systPtns ;
2. Medical Plan for medicine, doctor hills and a union clinic:
3. Pesticide protection (!l-man safety committee-farmworkers
rank highest in respiratory disease):
4. Elected Ranch Committee to hring grievances to management:
and
5.~ Fresh water and toilets in the fields.
A worker's comment was, "It was great to see farm workers at
the table with the company who hefore always gave orders.• The eon-· ·
tract has a life of 3 years and after two 3-year contracts, on March
22, 1973, negotiations began on a new contract. Gallo demanded an
end to the union Hiring Hall, and asked for sweeping changes in .tlmost
every part of the contract. Demands which would leave the workers
without any' protections. The UFW . rightfully did not capitulate to /the
demands and the contract expired on April 18, Hl73.
·
Even before the <'ontract's expiration, Teamster organizer,s wen•
reported on Gallo's property. On May 18.., Chavez requested hy telegram secret ballot elections by a third party ac<'eptahle to hoth companies ._ a_nd unions (to prove only the UFW represented the workers).
By June 26, Gallo supervisors handed a letter to the field workers:
"Today we received notice that the Teamsters Union represents a
majority of our ranch employees." That same night an overwhelming
majority of workers voted to strike. The following day June 27 the
workers struck. Bob Gallo admitted to the Modesto R~~ that a c'ompany bus returned empty from the main labor camp in Livingston.
On July 3, a delegation of priests and nuns from 1\-todesto and Stockton asked Bob Gallo for third party supervised election. He refused
but said he would accept a check· of ~uthorization ~ards (standard
procedure in the union-management labor relations). By July 6,
Sister Joyce Higgins of St. Mary's Parish in Stockton held UFW
representation cards of 173 of 222 workers on the April 18 payroll,
the day the contract expired. Bob Gallo refused to answer her telegrams of return her calls.
On July 10, Gallo signed a four-year contract with the Teamsters,
taking away all the gains won through the UFW. In justification of
the contract Bob Gallo announced he had •13a signatures turned in
by the Teamsters." UFW tiled suit to produce those signatures.
Even to this day these signatures have never been produced.
The strike was or:i and Gallo followed this action by telegramming
all striking workers: •we hired someone today to do your job and
you have been permanently replaced." Then on July 8, eviction notices were served to 71 families. This clearly demonstrated the
fai:mworkers vulnerability to the growers' power. The jailing of 60
strikers follow~. The situation was occurring simultaneously
throughout Caltfornia as other growers followed Gallo's example.
It was obvio~ that the tiny union was being attacked in an attempt to
· kill the farmworker's only true union. With no ALRB to protect them,
the UFW called for a national consumer boycott of all Gallo wines,
lettuce and grapes.
By the end of the summer of 1973, two farmworkers lay dead,
thousands injured, and thousands jailed for defending their right to
remain with the union ofthelr choice. Currently there exists a major
battle on college campuses because Gallo has launched an intensive
campaign to advertise its products in campus newspapers. To date
it ts clear that student support of the Gallo boycott remains strong.
A recent Harris Poll Survey indicated that over 8 million Americans
are boycotting Gallo and of this group the highest percentage is among
the college educated.
.
changed, when at a Media Council meeting this Spring he said, •It was never
my intention to get rid of The Daily
Collegian. It was my intention to get
rid of the minority editions.•
But an important factor in achieving
.this is through a method which reflects
our visibility. To succumb to a column
inside a regular edition is a step b~ckwards at a time when the movimiento
is at a crossroads where a decisive
step forward is needed.
The situation as brought to the limetight by the Chicanos of the late sixties
is not easily neutralized in seven years.
It is not a matter of "are we ready to
melt into the pot" ••• for our strong
cultural roots cannot be that easily
forsaken ••. again. For many Chicanos,
a strong fight will ensue first.
To . Chicanos . • . that is where we
stand. The physical image of La Voz,
and what it once represented every time
it appeared, is in dire jeopardy. We
had our chance to play the game in one
area, the student elections, and what
happened? Now we must try in another
area . . . the rebuil~ing of La Voz'
future in particular, and the possible
redirection in el movimiento.
PON TANT AS OPORTUNIDADES HOY,
SI FRACASAMOS ES SOLO NUESTRA
CULPA.
To non-Chicanos .•• it's not easy to
try to capsulize WHY we need an entire
minority edition. It's been said, demonstrated, written, and died for s.o many
ti mes over throughout our struggle. It
can qnly be hoped that the CSUF atmosphere is not closing its mind to this
necessity.
-"But . • . it's only fair we all take a
proportional cut." Where was that word
"fairness" decades ago for Chicanos?
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Teamsters rescue GcillO?
The United Farmworkers Union has long contended there is a Teamster-Gallo collusion - with
sweetheart contracts and the like - to kill the
farmworkers' struggle for better living and ,vorking conditions.
A recent incident markedly accents that charge.
Last week's irate phone call by a local Teamster
representative complaining about an anti-Gallo
advertisement bought by students, clearly shows
the continued courtship of these two giant institutions.
The local Teamster official condescendinglv
said the Gallo brothers might not like the Colle·gian to be doing things like that.
Gallo puts "a lot of money into your wine program at Fresno State and he might just pull it
out," he warned.
Very interesting.
But also very stupid. since it shows the close
working relationship between the two sweethearts
as they stroll between the grape rows trampling
over the toil and lives of the farmworkers the
mighty truckers' union is supposed to be representing in their struggle against the giant winery.
Whatever became of the militant union's pugnacity when it came to dealing with management labor's traditional enemy?
After the students' ad and the Teamsters' gallant gestures on behalf of the world's largest
winery, Gallo purchased equal space to fiaunt their
current workers' wages and fringe benefits.
They failed to mention it took the UFW to initiate
a farmworkers' union to fight for those rights,
previously granted all other industries.
The Teamster-Gallo ad also glorifies the recent
state-sponsored elections which show the truckers'
union winning the majority of farmworker votes IF -- the 117 contested votes are not counted. And
they triumphantlr -state the elections are being
checked by the A.L.R.B. They fail to mention that
the A.L.R.B. has been made impotent by the likes
of agricultural interests such as Gallo. It is blazoned across headlines throughout the country that
farmer and grower groups (along with their area
legislators) have contrived to kill the board until
changes favoring them are put in.
The nation ·s biggest union and biggest. winery
should drop this facade.
When a union representative labels farmworkers
as •just a bunch of idiots" and a giant company
proudly highlights the unionization of its workers
and a state board it wants to see disbanded, it
is time to realize the two have common goals.
Neither of the giant institutions care about the
farmworkers.
Perhaps the UFW's Gallo Boycott should be
changed to the Gallo-Teamster Boycott since it
seems to be the same company.
Wednesday, May 12, 1976
Me chingo· o-tra vez
THE_· pAILY COLLEGIAN-3.
The stories on th.is page are by Chicanos involved in
Chicano-directed writing classes in the La Raza Studies Program.
by M anue 1 Iba11e z
"You missed both of the signs that are marked
with an M. This means you failed the traffic signs
test. You have to study and come back another
day." This is what the examiner told my father
when we went to . renew his drivers license.
gives my father the traffic signs to identify before
he can take the written drivers test. My father
doesn't lil.ce to take the traffic signs test because
he always fails them the first time he goes.
"Y si esta la vieja?"
~ "No, no esta: r:ni compadre Andres me dijo
que no estaba el dia que fue el."
.
We were on our way and I was driving. My dad
, was studying a written drivers test that his compadre gave to him. Then very slowly raising his
head away from the paper he said,
"Y si esta la chingada vieja?"
"No te apures. Si esta y te da los sjgns, tu los
· sabes; que tiene! ·•
"Si," - silence - "pero pinche vieja!"
We arrived at the Depart_m ent ofMotorVehicles,
It began early in the morning at about 7: 30 a.m.
My father and I were getting dressed and ready to
go try· and get his drivers license renewed at
Coalinga, a town about 27 miles from where we
live.
Our conversation went like this:
"Hey pop, have you studied? n
"Si, un poco. Me dijeron que ya no esta la
vieja cat.>rona. n La vieja is the woman that works
at the department of motor vehicles. She always
I could ·n 't believe · it 'cause I
.n ever got Sent home before •••
by Rosa Maria Mendoza
As soon as she appeared at the door, the teacher
would tell us to stop our work.
Again, today, she was here.
W.e all recognized her hy the white clothes she
always wore.
·
No one would say a word except for the blondies,
who would sit there, waiting to laugh at whoever
got sent home this time.
Everyone would sit still while she came around
with tongue depresser in hand (which she used
so as not to dirty her hands), to check every Chicano and Negrito. Tony was the firsf to go, and
I knew for sure that Jackie would get sent. They
were aiways the first to go.
I would hold ·back the anger I felt, as she clumsily
went through the hair that my mother had carefully
brushed that morning, Again I would have to make
up another excuse fo give my mother. because I
was too ashamed to tell her the truth.
"This one has 'em." I couldn't believe it 'cause.
I had never got sent before. "Don't give us any
trouhle now, and go to the office like a good girl,•
she said. She took my arm and walked me to the ·
door, then she turned and went back to her "job."
I had to think fast. When I saw tne bathroom I
ran in anrt hid behind the trash can.
• '
When recess started, I poked my head out the
door, to check for teachers, I didn't see any but
I saw my best friend.
We spent .t he rest o( recess time thinking of
names to call the woman in white, while we tried
to fix my hair.
How many fqthers are be~ng
_
by Richard Vasquez
his old Chevy. As soon as the car had stopped I
would run up to him and ask what he had bought
me. He would then give me a box of Cracker Jacks.
Digging my hand into the bottom of the box I
would eagerly search for the secret prize. Unfortunately I would lose a third of the popcorn when
my hand was ·on the way out from the crapted
bottom.
My mother would greet him at the door-with a
kiss as he walked into his home thoroughly beaten
from another day 1 s work. As soon as I had enough
room to run and gather some speed I would jump
on my father's back and ask for a ride.
I knew the consequence of jumping on his back
would mean I would be covered with peach fuzz·
for he had been picking peaches all day. That was
all right because the ride was worth the washing
up afterwards. My mother would tell me with a
tone of harshness in her voice to get down. But
today would be no exception and he would grant
me my ride around the, kitchen.
,
I remember how hard and prickly the whi,kers
from under his chin would feel against my forearm
in our daily ride. After having supper, we would
settle down to our regular routine. My mother and
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I would watch T. V. while my father would sit in
his corner of the couch and fall immediately into
a deep sleep. Around 10 o'clock my mother would
be ready to go to bed and m-y father would still be
asleep on the couch.
Sometimes she woke him up so he could go to
sleep in bed and other times she just let him sleep,
still sitting up in the corner of the couch, until the
morning brought another day's work.
~ When I look back on this scene now that ,my
father has long since passed away, because of an
il_lness as a direct result of being overworked,
I think of how ·many other fathers are being murdered in the fields.
When looking back and trying to remember what
it was like when my father was around, the scene
which I have described is the most vividly implanted picture in my -mind, It's about the only
thing I can remember about him,
- Perhaps this is the Lord's way of kicking me in
the ass when I feel like throwing my school books
into the lake. I will not be put down into the position
where I have to work in the fields as a living as
my father was forced to do.
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My dad was so nervous he forgot how to say
one way in Spanish. She showed him three more
signs, which he identified correctly. Then she
showed him another one which said "WRONG
WAY." My dad didn't know it.
She then showed the two signs he Md missed,
and pointed uut two iittle M's printed on the bottom
of the cards. She explained that anyone who missed
the signs marked with an M automatically failed
the test. She gave him a sheet of paper with the
signs painted on it and told him to study them and
come back another day.
As we walked out the door my father said, •vieja
hija de su chigada madre. Me chingo otra vez."
· We bQth burst into laughter.
On our way home, we started talking about what
was going on - little things that were not important
which took our minds off what had happened. As
we crossed an overpass on the freeway, my dad
saw the signs he had missed on the test.
He said, "Mira, ahi estan los dos hijos de la
vieja cara de caballo" - and with that remark we
laughed an~ joked about la vieja and what ·had
happened to him.
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murdered in the fields?
· I remember my father coming up the dri vewa:y i 11
and as we got there my father's eyes opened up
widely. He recognized her car and said, • Ahi
esta el pinche carro!"
"El carro, de quien?"
•El de la pinche vieja!"
I laughed, and he followed up with a nutty laugh,
that seemed to say •pinche vieja, no me va a pasar
otra vez."
We went in the building and walked over to the
counter; and there in flesh and blood, was la vteja.
I looked at my father and he just shook his head up
and down as to ~ay, •1 knew it, I just knew it.•
I told her that my father came to renew his
· drivers license. She gave us a paper to.fill out, then
she asked if he was going to take his test in Spanish. I said yes, and she said, "'He has to pass the
traffic sign test first." She took out a _deck of
cards with the signs painted on them. She showed
the first one to my dad. It had on it "'ONE WAY.•
My dad quickly answered, "One way" in English.
She said, "In Spanish!"
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'Brown proves himself
strong for presidency'
Wednesday, May 12, 1976
LETTERS
'Something seem-s a Iittle
wrong': his point of
Editor:
In La Voz de Aztlan's last is~
sue, a letter to the editor appeared concerning MEChA's position on the Bicentennial.
MEChA's position was compared
to a comic strip. We as MEChA
students do not and will not stand
for a psuedo-ltbetal's one-sided
racist view of 200 years of oppression as not being serious.
How serious can you get? People
tiave died, such as Danny Trevino who, although unarmed, was
shot down by San Jose City Police
on January 22, 1976. How extreme
can you get? In February of this
year, Woodlake High School students were dented freedom of
expression.
MEChA 's concern is in coniunction with over 60 national,
124 state and several 100 local
organizations known as the July
4th Coalition.
In Mr. Meyer's st;itement,
•Why don't all non-MextcanAmertcans protest Cinco de
Mayo," his racist overtones appear quite visibly. Does not Mr.
Meyer recognize Cinco de Mayo,
when unarmed Mexican people·
defeated some of Napoleon's best
troops, as one of the three greatest days for freedom? The other
two being Bastille Day and the
Fourth of July. IC this is too extreme, let him ask any history
professor.
Does Mr. Meyer . also deny
Mechistas · the right to protest?
The statement concerning Chicano Citizenship of Aztlan (Southwest) has never been finalized by
the United States in any document.
Also, Mr. Meyer should reread
his history of Aztlan (Southwest)
because the United States, and not
Chicanos, claim this citizenship
was granted. Chicanos have never
voted to be a part of this country.
They were forced at gunpoint to
become citizens.
We do agree with Mr. Meyers
statement, •something seems a
little wrong from my point of
view": his point of view.
Juan Noriega
MEChA Central Chairperson
Valle de San Joaquin
'Hypocrisy •• ~ prev alenl 1n U.S.
,
■
· Editor:
This is in regard to Mike R.
Meyer's letter concern 1 ng
MEChA 's position on the Bicentennial.
We as mechlstas and as campus representatives for the Chicano communJty to the statewide
MEChA antt-bicentennlal committee, know the conditions, atti. tildes, and n_eeds of ·o ur people.
Mr. Meyer,· .we· are not de-·
nounclng Ameri_ca•s b"t.rthd _a y
· (Happy birthday, America) . but
rather the ideals (constitution)
which . resulted from the 1776
armed re'velution; life, liberty,
pursuit of happiness, freedom and
justice· for all. Let us not forget,
after half of Mexh;o was stolen,
Us people massacred and gov-
ernment left in shambles, its
people were left at the mercy of ·
a ptogressing nation under the
direction of God . (Manifest Destiny and the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo). We as Chicanos have ·
yet to experience basic human
as wen as constitutional rights •.:
. The thirteen colonies' revolution was. an economic struggle
(taxatio~· wi.thout ~presentation,
Boston tea party; etc.)
J'h• Chir.ano struggle is one of
life. It · is: of our carnales arid·
carnalas ln the field who live in·
poverty. Jt is our roots across
the border and the exploitation
by the r.apltalist growers and
Border Patrol.
We have very little political
representation. The equal em-
•••
ploym"'nt law is a farce. Our people live in poverty in the barrios,
we fill the jails, the unemployment rolls and welfare lines.
I might understand how some_one or racist mentality might
believe that is our, nature.
. The · Bicentennial expresses
·th.a t we ·sbould tie proud as citi. zens (?) to .live _under such humane and free government. We as
·Chi ca nos cannot-. and wm not
participate, to do·- so·.would only
enforce the- stat~ of" J:aypocrisy
which- . is so prevalent in· U.S.
society~
Vencez:emos 1
David Gomez
Member CSUF MEChA
Anti: Bicentennial Committee
district. In auuuion, the 600,000
Editor:
Edmund G. Brown Jr. for acre Westlands lying in western
Fresno and Kings counties conPresident.
sumes
more water for its corBrown is presently California's
porate-owned farms than any
37-year-old bachelor governor,
others.
and despite the fact that he has
.been in office for only sixteen
Gov. Brown believes the
months, he is now a candidate for
Democratic party needs to be
President of the United States.
revitalized: that new thinking
is needed. In the beginning, the
Brown paints himself.as a man
governor readily admitted he
with a vision who can turn the
hadn't thought through all the is country on again, and feels his
sues but nevertheless felt the
bid for presidency has a very
issu~s would involve a full comsubstantial possibility for sucmitment to full employment and a
cess.
recognition that much greater efThe California governo'r is a
man of action and has involved · forts at conserving our natural
resources are going to be rehimself in the issues.
helped
quired.
·in the creation of a farm labor
board. Under his administration,
At a Capital news conference
the legislature has initiated such Brown stated, "l can't give you
measures as - reducing mariready made recipes on how to
juana penalties, increasing taxes solve each and every problem,
on oil companies, and permitting but I have a lot ·of energy. I hope
consenting adults to indulge their I can inspire some enthusiasm sexual provlici ties in private I think I can bring people towithout fear of arrest.
gether."
Also of interest and imporThe governor also welcomes
tance, is Brown's standing on the
other candidates to challenge him
Westlands situation.
in California, where he is willing
The Brown administration has
to debate.
concluded that the federal govBrown feels people in this
ernment will invest nearly $2,5
country are searching for vision,
billion to enrich a few landowners
and that thev are not turned on in the Westland Water District
they're not· excited and enthusiwithout any compliance with fedastic about public affairs. He
eral reclamation law (the Reclafeels he can make a contribution
mation Act proposes creating
in that area, and offers his thinkfamily farms). and that in fact,
ing and vision of where we're
if the law intended to create
going as people. Furthermore,
family farms was complied with,
he feels that only the people will
there would be a boost in crop
judge whether or not he can do
income, employment, and · the
this.
economic life of Fresno Cou~ty.
•Let the people decide" _he
Many Westlands landowners
says.
Irene Tinoco
dispute this by claiming thatonly
large-scale farming ~s ec()nomically feasible. These sarrie landTODAY
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While this ts technically' complylng with the law, the sales
have resulted in relatively few
new family farmers ·tn the rich
Ideals have proved lo be empty promises:
Editor:
Mr. Meyer, while claiming he
isn't •much of a nag-waving,
star-spangled banner type," does
seem to get a little hot under the
collar .over our Bicentennial.
This is his privilege; indeed, his
right. However, I would urge him
to look at the entire Bicentennial
picture in a more realistic light.
is neither - must have an extremely difficult time taking the
Bicentennial celebration serious,..
ly. Chicanos, Blacks, Indians and
every other American minority
group hear about the freedom
they are supposed to be enjoying
all the ti me, but what does it
mean if it doesn't exist?
Bicentennial cars, Bicentennial breakfast cereal. BicentenThe ideals , set down by the
nial Kool-Aid, Bicentennial cof•Founding Fathers" 200 years
fins ( coffins??) • • • the list of
ago were admirable, and ostentruly stupid money-making propsibly this Bicentennial celebraositions at the· expense of the Bition points to the •perpetuation•
centennial goes on and on. Mr.
of those ideals for the past two
Meyer may protest that he hasn't
centuries.
yet tasted a Bicentennial breakThe probability is, though, that
fast cereal; if-he hasn't it's only
the •Founding Fathers" are doing
because no• enterprising busidouble-gainers in their graves
nessmen have thought of it. He's
over this parficularBicentennial. · right about one thing, though -After all, their ideals have been
the whole affair has a distinctly
grossly perverted over the years
"Doonesbury" feeling about it.
and anyone thinking this is a truly
Cinco de Mayo is a celebration
free and open -society today is
of Mexican independence and if
blind or crazy.
Mr. Meyer feels like protesting
The impoverished and disenit he's more than welcome, though
franchised peoples in this nation
I think he'll find it a little lonely.
- of which Mr. Meyer obviously
The fact is, Mr. Meyer is not, in
c:opy plus
Bicentennial - regardless of any
flags Mr. Meyer might wave.
And so. to Mr. Meyer and
others of his ilk I say this:
something seems a _little wrong
to me , too. And some of us plan
to do something about it.
·
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all probability, a minority citizen
of Mexico; nor has he, in all
likelihood, suffered any oppression at the hands of the Mexican
government.
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The picture is quite different
for the Mechistas anrl many others in the United States. The
Mechistas have seen thi_s country
turn i~s founding ideals into a
joke; its promises have proved to
be empty. In that respect all oppressed peoples have not only the
right but the duty to protest the
· (In the Heart of the Campus)
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