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Cesar Chavez — Part 11
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integrity of CHAVEZ.
| gy be scree arer said that during the past year, .
CHAVEZ and his supporters have consistently been
"anti-law enforcement and anti-~everything that is not
in agreement with them". (SD said that
CHAVEZ had organized boycotts in connection with the
organizing efforts of the NFWA and that the boycott
tactics and the so-called "farm workers" strikes have
seriously disrupted the regular course of business in
Delano, said that CHAVEZ and many °
his followers referred to Caucasians as "gringos'; that
CHAVEZ has lied about wages being paid by agricultural
growers in Delano; and that CHAVEZ has claimed that
segregation exists in Delano, when in fact segregation
has not existed in public schools and other public
facilities. cseromrrecm fre before CHAVEZ and the
NFWA came to Delano there had been harmony between all
races. He said that CHAVEZ and his followers have
continually attempted to disrupt this harmony and he
very much resents the attempt by CHAVEZ to infer that
there has been disharmony and segregation in the Delano
area. ay pointed out that the City Council
of Delano has a total of five members, two being
Mexican-American, and that the Delano Planning Commission
consisted of nine members, two of which are of Mexican
descent. pointed out further that the
second inc nd o e police department in Delano,
California, is of Mexican extraction and he went on to
say that the propaganda published and uttered by CHAVEZ
regarding alleged discrimination and the alleged poor
working conditions of the farm worker has been "a very
thorough job of falsifying actuality".
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efforts of CHA to organize farm workers in the Delano
area has failed and has resulted in nothing more than a
campat of name calling and pitting race against race.
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