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C- © caUEM Rial LA 100-67449 that FWA Director Cesar Chavez stated that the AWOC and FWA are demanding that the growers sign an agreement to recognize the unions as the organizations representing the workers, Another article datelined Delano and captioned, "Labor Rallies to Farm Strike," reflected that the strikers were receiving food and money from other labor organizations. This article also stated labor support was not the only support being received and that "high priority was given the civil rights workers from San Francisco and Los Angeles who have come to this city, and surrounding area, to assist the strikers. In the hall, one could see persons wearing Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee (SNCC) and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) buttons. They were helping'to provide the manpower to keep the strike machinery going. The are e strike has become a focal point of concentration for. (3 ymoting democratic rights in the state." A second source advised in October, 1965, that Sam Kushner, Los Angeles editor of the PW newspaper, stated that he had given 100 papers and $50 to the FWA strike. Kushner indicated that the big story in Los Angeles is the Deiano strike, and he said that he got some pictures there which were to be used in the PW, According to Kushner, in the coming week, one Cesar was going to take him out on the picket line and spend the morning with him. This source advised that on October 7, 1965, Kushner attempted to get in touch with Cesar Chavez of Delano. A fourth source advised on August 27, 1965, that the sixth annual State Convention of the Mexican-American Political Association (MAPA) was held at Fresno, California, July 23, 24 and 25, 1965, and that the FWA picketed the con- vention and passed out leaflets denouncing the participation of MAPA and its officers in the recruitment of farm workers for the Department of Employment and the Department of Labor. 1