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Farmworkers’ union pushes I, NEW YORK — Monopoly’s fleeting headaches promise to turn into migraines as the United Farm Workers Organizing Com- mittee (UFWOC) continues to - Organize in California and then sweep over the landscape of this “Cesd’ Chaves had pledged, and 0 far be his been true to his word, that the UFWOC will forge ‘‘one single union for the farmworkers of the United States." Monopoly, which has been run- ning rampant over the lives of farmworkers, suddenly confront- ed the first real obstacle in recent history in the iarms of Deiano, California, five years ago. The grape fields must be. or, ganized. The strike is on.” The weapon of the boycott is used against Safeway. People : soon Jearn that Safeway, the second Largest food chain in the U.S., con- tinfes to carry scab grapes pre- cisply because it is one of the lagest farm owners in California. For a while, there is a drive pot to N ENEMY ol SIGHT, SIRE RENOVI6IS7O %y bank at Bank of America, the big- gest bank in the world, which owns considerable land in the val- Jey. And Southern Pacific Rail- Toad, ‘people are told, has land amounting to 20,000,000 acres by virtue of early land grabs. So, the public slowly becomes educated. It learns that the grow- ers are not the horny-handed sons and daughters of the land. Behind every large farm there.is a large corporation or bank, the directors of which are interiocking. - For example, J.G. Boswell, member of the Safeway Board of Directors, is also a member of the board of directors of 5.G. Boswell Co., Boston Ranch, Crockett Gam- body, Tulare Lake Land Co., and Miller & Lux, all of which own farmland in the rich valleys of ‘California. While there are some famify- owned farms, the dominant trol rests in the hands of the large financial interests. The public also learns that the farmworkers, by and large coi- ored peoples, make meager wages, live in hovels fit only for rats, are denied the right to health and unemployment insurance, are regularly subjected to the careless spraying of pesticides that endanger their families’ lives. Agri-business is regularly mak- ing its super-profits at the expense of the workers’ welfare and col- lecting its government subsidies for not growing crops, taking out of the mouths of the poor. 3. G. Boswell and Co. alone received $4,091,818 in subsidies in 1967. “But the public will soon learn that the victory of the farmwork- ers in California will be like a flame in a dry valley. It will spread until it catches the imag- ination of the farmworkers in all ranches in this country and one single farmworkers union is forged from ra A, \\ York to Florida sul Mohr Bishop Brennan. C.D Callahan _ __ Casper Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Tavel Walters Soyvars Tele. Room Holmes Gandy The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily Nows The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday Newa (New York) New York Post ‘The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore? ns The Daily World it ‘The New Leader ‘The Wall Street Journal ‘The National Observer People's World Examiner (Washington) Date L _ : ae RECO! coo, ‘, ) Sullivan