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| t ! Jot ' ' Cesar Chavez remains hos- t i: today, but he has ' indoned his 24 - day fast to a Arizona's new farm W. ' In a statement read by a aide during yesterday's ! morial mass at the Town * House for the Jate Sen. Rob- | eft Kennedy, Chavez said: “What is a few days with- { out food in comparison to the | daily pain of our brothers and * gisters who do back - break- . ing work im the fields under ; inhuman conditions and with- out hope of ever breaking . their cycle of poverty and misery? MORE THAN 5,000 persons beard Chavez’ statement read while the weakened founder of the United Farm Workers Union sat with head in his hands. Doctors said Saturday that continuation of the fast would be dangerous since tests showed Chavez’ heart mus- cles were weakening. On band for yesterday's | ceremony, which attracted many of the Yuma area farm workers who union spokes men say are striking, were Joseph ‘Kennedy Il, eldest fon of Sen. Kennedy, who was alain during presidential cam- jening in 1968. | ‘olk singer Joan Baez and Paul Schrade, former Unij Workers official, alsopt- tended. Schrade was inju| in the shooting that kifled ! | ' Kemet we? AAI Peers in the statement. aa vik (dhount Clipping In Spoce Below) (Chavez Remains} In Hospital, But . | Ends 24-Day Fast mE? arrived at the in an ambulance and br ke his fast by eating ie figal bread at the communipn vice. “T am weak in body 1 feel very strong in spirit,” Chavez’ statement said. “What a terrible irony it is that the very people who har- vest the food we eat do not have enough food for ir own children.” The UFW is ramrodding a nagionwide pigttuce boy tt an has been urging melon Pickers’ in the Yuma aree to ke, The group also i: ducting a recall drive agai Governor Williams. Opponents .contend Ari: a's new law, which becomes effective Aug. 13, inhibits the workers’ right to organize and prohibits secondary boy- cotts. ’ SUPPORTERS say workers can organize any time they want to via secret ballot and “that an arbitrator — to be picked by mutual, agreement ‘of the grower and the work- ers, or by the court if no agreement is possible — must decide issues quickly any time an employer gets a court injunction during a harvest- time strike. “If you give yourself totally to the nonviolent struggle for peace and justice, you also f i” that people wil gv give it hearts and you will nef 184 wngry and never e" Chavez told his fql- “OUR OPPONENTS in the ‘icultural industry are vefy verful and farm workcts still weak in money influence,” he added. But, he said, “we have an- other kind of power that comes from the justice of our cause. So long as we are will- ing to spread the meassage of our struggle, then millions of people around the world will respond from their hearts... and in the end we will over- come.” Chavez’ physician, Dr. Je me Lackner of San Jos. lif., said the farm work fader will remain hospi “until we are confideat he is okay.” “NOT exe JUL 21 WH ~ ke. gf. . Rosen. Miss Holmes. Miss Gandy newspaper, city and state.) 20 PHOENIX GAZETTE PHOENIX, ARIZONA ty 6-5-72 Evening Dote: Edition: Avthor: Eaters Lowell Parker A Tithe: UNITED FARM WORKERS na ESAR CHAVEZ eters ee or 100-7980 Thoenix Koltteing inventigoted 27 he * Classification: Submitting Ottice: al