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route of the march" The route followed on the march was determined by a committee of

the strikers in Delano. The purpose was to pass through as manyfarm worker towns as possible, relying on the Association membersto provide food and housing each night. There is, contrary to publicopinion, a community of farm workers--for the marchers neverlacked food, shelter, or moral support. There is, moreover, abroadly-based support for the Delano movement, for meals and hous­ing were also provided by churchmen, union members, students,civic groups, and just plain citizens. Thanks go out to all of them,in 53 towns in California.

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En cinquenta y tres pueblos, en la ruta de la marcha, los campesinosles dieron alimento y hogares a los peregrinos. Su cooperacion es larazon por el exito de la marcha.

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The ValleyAnd the Marchers

***,,0 ON THEY WENT, with mile upon

dreary mile yet to go. What atiny bandthey seelJled in that endless valley with it:;vast .farms. roaring trllcks and swooshinl!.Cill·S. "

Yet you couldn·t help teeling that eachman - in his own vel''' personal wa:"had already won.

***\X!HY HAD 'THEY COME'! The strike

~ had been dragging on in the DelanoarC<l for more than seven months. The as­::-;ociatiolJ was' grO\\'ilJg. but strikebreakersIlad harvested the crop, And now the stril,­r'l'~; v,cre I',alking to Sacramento. Why')

Partly II' Iras religious. "This is not f'!

protest I1lCll'ch." said one ieadcr. It i~ ;:1

IJrilgrimage. We are doing penance in theLelllen season. It is part of the Mexicanculture." Two Catholic priests. olle from

------------Arlhur Hoppej\'IeJ"ced San Francisco and one from Texas, were1'1' WAS J:l~T, U S, Highway 9\:1, four in the procession,

lanes. dIvIded. ran endlessly through ,Partly it was political. "Social justice."the flat yalley past peeling-stucco hot dog "Powerful growers." "Rotten politicians."stands. Junkyards and cheap billboards to "Already we have found the strength inthe smog-blurred horizon, 1Il1ity," said another leader II'jth a smi If'.

There they came, Less than a hundred "While one farm worker cannot S!N'p in aof t~lem, \v<lIking single file, facing the park. one hundred can."lrat11C. Most were Mexican-Americans a Partly it was to spread the mo\'ement.few Negroes. a few Anglos. These w~re "Each town we stop ill, the Mexicans. the\'the Delano grape strikers. They had left feed us and put us in their houses. The,·Delano on S1. PatTtck's day. They would, come to our meetings and sometimes the)'God willing. arrive in Sacramento on Eas- weep."tel' SUl1d~y. Three hundred miles. They Partly it was their leader. Cesar Cha-were hall way. vez, a handsome, funny, gentleman, whom

How colorful they looked. How brave. they talked about almost as though heThe gold-embroidered banner depicting were holy. "If we get to Sacramento andOur Lady of Guadalupe at the fore the Cesar says we go to Washington," saidAmerican flag, the Mexican flag ~d a one tall young marcher with a shrug, "Idozen red pennants with black eagles- say, okay, I go to Washington,' " ,symbol of the National Farm Workers As- But mostly it was personal. As theysociation. "Huelga" they cried. "Strike" swung along at a steady three and a halfthe association's proud battle cry. miles an hour, a middle-aged man talked

And yet in that vast, endless flatness of about how he had picked grapes "evel'the valley. amidst the roaring trucks and since 1 was a little kid." And maybe heswooshing cars, what a little band they sa~d, "That is all I ever do." .'seemed. What a tiny splash of color. Perhaps it was imagination. But he

seemed to raise his black and red balmerhigher. "But now 1 show," he said, "1 amnot afraid."

Ako an nanyyaring summamang lumakadpatungo sa Sacramento sa dahilan akingpaniwala naito lamang any isang mabisangparaan upang paglikuran any Panginoon atgisingin any taong bluag at ipakita sa kan­ila na. Weron taong handang magpakahirapapagis maita tag any kabutikan nany mahi­hirap.I want to help the marchers all I .can.Even if it is only to give a few of them ameal or a place to sleep. Because whenwe strike here, we will need help too ...

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the history of the pilgrimageThe historic peregrinacion began with an idea in 1957. Cesar CL .ez was organizing farmworkers in the El Centro area and dreamed, according to his wife, of marching from theMexican border to the state capitol to dramatize the terrible problems of workers there.People talked about it sometimes, but it was just an idea.The notion of a pilgrimage was born again in 1965. Last fall, someone proposed that fivefamilies on strike make a pilgrimage from Delano to Washington, D. C. and onto Schenley'snational headquarters in New York. This came just after Schenley ranch crews had sprayedthe pickets with sulphur sprays and had outraged the community. The families would stopalong the way where Boycott Schenley Committees existed. In Washington, sympathizerswould gather for a march on foot to New York--and a meeting with Schenley executives.This idea stuck.In January april.>t came to Delano and reminded strikers of the coming Lenten season.Some of the strikers from Old Mexico recalled Lenten pilgrimages they had made. One ofthe men amused others by showing how he walked along bumpy, dusty roads with long swing­ing steps. Thirty miles a day, he bragged. The idea of a California pilgrimage. Peoplethought about it during the winter picket-pruning season. Then a serious discussion began.--It was decided that a pilgrimage within California allowed more farm workers to partici­pate and the cross-country march was shelved-temporarily. Then earnest cuscussion aboutan appropriate destination for the march began. Some said it should go to Mexico to protestillegal recruitment of strikebreakers. Others said San Francisco, to the west coast head­quarters of Schenley and DiGiorgio, and to the home of the valiant longshoremen who refuseto load scab grapes. Others said that in Sacramento is the root of the farm worker problem.

A spirited debate raged in Delano. Some believed Governor Brown when he said "what cana governor do to end a strike" and they said "March r-' Schenley". Others pointed out whata concerned governor might do, politics aside, and retorted, "March on the Capitol".Workers said "Schenley won't negotiate". Their friends reminded them that the state legis­lature has never made it possible for any farm workers to negotiate with any employer. Oneday in February William Bennett came to Delano to discuss the California Fair Trade Actand its protections to the liquor industry. Bennett said that the California legislature notonly denies farm workers the right to~a minimum wage but also guarantees their adversarieslike Schenley the right to a high, fixed price on all liquor they make. After that, most peopledecided that Sacramento was, indeed, the best destination for the perigrinacion.The first official declaration of the march to Sacramento was made at the weekly meeting onFebruary 22. Signups began. Only a limited number of th_ pickets would be allowed to marchbecause the Delano area picketing, the nursery school, the clinic, the store, the soup kitchenand the office had to continue. Some one proposed that if wives took over the picketing, thenmore husbands could go on the pilgrimage. The women agreed to this. About 100 peoplewanted to march. Then the doctor came; those with high blood pressure, bad feet, diabetes,or sick wives had to stay. 75 names left. From this group, some had to work as organizers,visiting towns ahead of the marchers, arranging meals, halls for meetings, and beds. Somehad to drive the trucks with toilets and luggage. Others had to work as monitors protectingthe pilgrims from speeding traffic. On March 17th, 68 had been selected. Their wives andchildren and friends left at home ma rched to the city limits.Sixty-eight went on. The first night when the marchers stopped to rest,. someone discoveredthat a seven year old boy had skipped school, evaded his mother, and was intent on marchingon. He was sent reluctantly home, and 67 marched on.

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Emma Agarano, 19, DelanoRamon Bustos, 31, EarlimartRoberto A. Bustos, 31, EarlimartEpifanio Camacho, 41, McFarlandSaul Cantu, 22, PortervillePete Cardenas, 28, EarlimartRamona Castro, 22, DelanoRudolfo Castro, 24, DelanoCesar Chavez, 39, DelanoErnest Delarmente, 25, DelanoSantos Diaz, 20, DelanoTomas Escalante, 18, McFarlandPaul Esparza, 21, DelanoRichard Flowers, 24, Greenwood, Miss.Carolina Franco, 22, EarlimartAngela Hernandez, 20, CorcoranAugustine Hernandez, 17, McFarlandOctavio Hernandez, 27, DelanoAndrew Imutan, 34, DelanoLuming Imutan, 34, DelanoVictorio Jasco, 47, EarlimartWilliam H. King, 63, FontanaRaul Lopez, 35, El Paso, TexasEulogio Martinez, 40, RichgroveSocorro Mendez, 19, DelanoRaymond Mendoza, 18, TulareRosendo Montano, 60, McFarlandJose P. Moreno, 29, RichgroveMonserrate Nieves, 30, Arecibo, P.R.Juan Olguin, 19, PortervilleAristeo Oropeza, 24, DelanoJose Pena, 40, DelanoJoseph Reeves, 50, DelanoRudy Reyes, 22, DelanoJuan Rodriguez, 37, DelanoRobert Roman, 30, DelanoManu'el Rosas, 32, DelanoMargarita Sotelo, 39, DelanoJose Sotelo, 35, ThlanoFernando Valesquez, 26, EarlimartMichael Silva Vasquez, 34, EarlimartFelix ytom, 55, DelanoJorge Zaragosa, 31, BakersfieldAusencion Zapata, 52, DelanoGonzala Zavala, 21, Delano

Hay mas personas que no esta incluidosporque nuestra informacion no esta completa.

PHOTOGRAPHERS: Jon LewisJohn Kouns

EL MALCRIADO: Gilbert Rubio

CHUCKWAGON: DeWitt Tannehill

PRESS: Terrence CannonJoanne Forman

MECHANICS: Gustavo EspinosaHenry Uranday•

ORGANIZERS: Robert MarinoMarshall GanzAnthony MendezManuel UrandayCharles Gardinier

THEATRE: Luis ValdezAugustine LiraErrol Franklin

NURSE: Margaret McGivern

SECRETARY: Kathleen Lynch

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THE PLAN OF DELANOPLAN for the liberation of the Farm Workers assoc­iated with the Delano Grape Strike in the state of Cal­ifornia, seeking social justice in farm labor withthose reforms that they believe necessary for theirwell-being as workers in these United States.

We, the undersigned, gathered in Pilgrimage to thecapital of the state in SacrameJto in penance for allthe failings of Farm Workers as free and sovereignmen, do solemly declare before the civilized worldwhich judges our actions, and before the nation towhich W3 belong, the propositions we have formulatedto end the injustice that oppresses us.

We are conscious of the historical significance of ourPilgrirrage.It is clearly evident that our path tra­vels through a valley well known to all Mexican farmworkers. We know all of these towns of Delano,Midera, Fresno, MJdesto, Stockton and Sacramento~

because along this very same road, in this verysame valley, the Mexican race has sacrificed itSelffor the last hundred years. Our sweat and our bloodhave fallen on this land to make other men rich.This Pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we haveseen for generations.

The Penance we accept symbolizes the suffering weshall have in order to bring justice to these sametowns, to this same valley. The Pilgrirrage we rmkesymbolizes the long historical road W3 have travelledin this Valley alone, and the long road we have yetto travel, with much penance, in order to bring aboutthe Revolution we need, and for which we present thepropositions in the following PLAN:

1. This is the beginning of a social movemEnt in factand not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God·given rights as hurran beings. Because we have suf­fered--and are not afraid to suffer--in order to sur­vive, we are ready to give up everything, even ourlives, in our fight for social justice. We shall do itwithout violence because that is our destiny. To theranchers, and to all those who oppose us, we say, inthe words of Benito Juarez, "EL RESPETO AL DE­RECHO AJENO ES LA PAZ. "

2. We seek the support of all political groups andprotection of the government, v.hich is also our gov­ernment, in our struggle. For too rmny years wehave been treated like the lowest of the low. Our wa­ges and working conditions have been determinedfrom above, because irresponsible legislators whocould have helped us, have supported the rancher'sargument that the plight of the Farm Worker was a"special case". They saw the obvious effects of anunjust system, starvation wages, contractors, dayhauls, forced migration, sickness, illiteracy,camps and sub-human liVing conditions, and actedas if they were irremediable causes. The farm wor­ker has been abandoned to his own fate--without rep­resentation, without power--subject to mercy andcaprice of the rancher. We are tired of words, ofbetrayals, of indifference. To the politicians wesay that the .years are gone when the farm workersaid nothing and did nothing to help himself. Fromthis movement shall spring leaders v.ho shall under­stand us, lead us, be faithful to us, and we shallelect them to represent us. WE SHALL BE HEARD.

3. We seek, and have, the support of the Church inwhat we do. At the head of the Pilgrimage we carryLA VIRGEN DE LA GUADALUPE because she isours, all ours, Patroness of the Mexican people.We also carry the Sacred Cross and the Star of Da­vid because W3 are not sectarians, and because W3ask the help and prayers of all religions. All menare brothers, sons of the same God; that is why we

say to all mEn of good will, in the words of PopeLeo XIII, "Everyone's first duty. is to prote.ct theworkers' from the greed of speculators v.ho use humanbeings as instruments to provide themselves withmoney. It is neither just nor human to oppress menwith excessive \\Qrk to the point where their mindsbecome enfeebled and their bodies worn out." GODSHALL NOT ABANDON US.

4. We are suffering. We have suffered, and we arenot afraid to suffer in order to w:il our cause. Wehave suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in thename of the law of the Land. Our men, women, andchildren have suffered not only the basic brutality ofstoop labor, and the most obvious injustices of thesystem; they have also suffered the desperation ofknowing that that system caters to the greed of cal­lous men and not to our needs. Now we will sufferfor the purpose of ending the poverty, the misery,and the injustice, with the hope that our children willnot be exploited as we have been.They have imposed hungers on us, and now we hungerfor justice. We draw our strength from the verydespair in which we have been forced to live.WE SHALL. ENDURE,

5. We shall unite. We have learned the meaningof UNI'IY. We know why these United states arejust that--united. The strength of the poor is also inunion. We know that the poverty of the Mexican orFilipino worker in California is the same as that ofall farm workers across the country, the Negroesand poor v.hites, the Puerto Ricans, Japanese, andArabians; in short, all of the races that comprisethe oppressed minorities of the United States. Thermjority of the people on our Pilgrimage are of Mex­ican descent, but the triumpq of our race depends ana national association of all farm workers. The •ranchers want to keep us divided in order to keep usweak. Many of us have signed individual "work con­tracts" with the ranchers or contractors, cont ractsin which they had all the poW3r. These contracts werefarces, one more cynical joke at our impotence.That is why W3 must get together and bargain collectively. We must use the only strength that we have,the force of our numbers. The ranchers are few; weare many. UNITED WE SHALL STAND.

6. We shall Strike. We shall pW'sue U,e REVOLUTIONwe have propused. We are sons uf the Mexican Rev­olution, a revoilltiull of the poor seeking: bread ~U1d

justice. CAll' revolutit)n will not be armed, but we wantthe e>..isting social order to dis solve; we waul a newsocial order. We are, poor, we are humble, anduur only choice is to Strike in those ranches \\here weare not treated with U,e respect we deserve as workinglrell, where our rig·hts as free and sovereign men arenot recognized. We do not want the paternalism.ofthe l'~uH;hcr; we du not want the contractor; we do notwant charity at the price of ow' dignity. We \lUnt tobe equal with all Uw working men in the nation; \\e

want a just wage, better working conditions, a decentfuture for Ow' children. To those who oppose us, bethey ranchers, police, politicians, or speculators,we say that we are going to continue fighting untilwe die, or we win. WE SHALL OVERCOME.

Across the San Joaquin Valley, across california,across the entire Southwest of the United States,wherever there are Mexican people, wherever thereare farm workers, our n1Jvement is spreading likeflames across a dry plain. Our PILG RIMAG E is theMATCH U,at will light ow' cause for all farm workersto see what is happening here, so that they may doas we have done. The time 11",; come for the libera·tion of the poor farm work,

History is on our side.

MAY THE STRIKE GO ON! VIVA LA CAUSAl

EL PLAN DE DELANO"Peregrinacion, Penitencia, Revolucion"

PLAN libertador de los hijos campesinos del Estadode California, afiliados a la Huelga de la 'Uva enDelano que defiende el cumpliniento de la justiciasocial en el trabajo del campo, con las reformas quehan creido convenientemente aumentar en benficio deellos como trabajadores en los Estados Unidos.

Los que suscribimos, constituidos en Peregrinaciona la capital del Estado en Sacramento par hacer Peni­tencia por todas las faltas de los carrpesinos (lormhombres libres y soberan<I? declararms solemnementeante todo el mundo civilizado que nos juzga y ante laNacion a que pertenencemos, los propositos que hem<¥>for1l11lado para acabar con las injusticias que nos op­rimen. Tambien estamos conciente s del sentidohistorico de nuestra Peregrinacion. Se puede vel'claramente que el canino de la marcha incluye unvalle bien conocido por todos nosotros los mexicanos,y que conocemos todos estos pueblos de Delano,Ml.dera, Fresno, MJdesto, Stockton y Sacramento,porque por todo este camino, por todo este valle la

raza mexicana se ha sacrificado, ya POI' casi los cien·anos. Entonces que nuestro sudol' y nuestra sangrehan caido en esta tierra para hacer ricos a otroshombres; entonces que esta Peregrinacion tambien esun testigo al sufriniento que ~mos visto ya pOl'varias ~eneraciones, y que la Penitencia que acepta­lIDS tambien sini>oliza el sufrimiento que vamos atener para realizar la justicia en estos mismospueblos, en este misrm valle; entonces que la Pere­grinacion representa el largo camino historico quehemos caminado nomas en este valle, y ellargocamino historico que aun tenerms que caminar con1l11cha Penitencia para cumplir con esa Revolucionque es necesaria, por la cual se quedan determinadoslos prop ositos en el siguiente Plan:

1. ESte es el comienzo de un rmvimiento social dehechos y no de pronunciamientos. Luchamos pornuestros derechos hwmnos, como criaturas de Dios.Porque hemos sufrido - y estamos dispuestos hastalIDrir pOl' nuestra causa que es la justicia social.Lo vamos hacer sin violencia porque ese es nuestrodestino. A los rancheros, y a aquellos que se nosoponen, les decimos como dijo Benito Juarez, "ELRESPETO AL DERECHO AJENO ES IA PAZ. "

2. Pedimos el apoyo de todos los grupos politicos, yla proteccion del gobierno, que es tambien nuestrogobierno, en nuestra justa causa. Por demasiadosanos se nos ha tratado de 10 mas bajo. Nuestross ueldos y condiciones de trabajo han sido determin­ados desde arriba porque demasiados legisladoresirresponsables, quienes pudieran habernos ayudado,han apoyado a los rancheros en su argumento de quela miseria del campesino es un "caso especial. ".Las inj usticias mas patentes del sistema, los sueldosde hambre, los contratistas, los trabajos migratorios,los carrpos y viviendas miserables, las enfermedades,la ignol1lncia, etc., fueron tratados COIlD causasirreparables. El campesino ha sido abandonado a susuerte - sin representacion y sin poder - a la mercedy capricho del ranchero. Estamos cansados de pala­bras, de traiciones, deindiferencia. A los politicosles decimos que ya se acabaron los aiios cuando elcampesino no decia ni nada para levantarse. De esteIlDvimi ento brotaran los lideres que nos comprenden,nos guien, nos sean fieles, y a los cuales eligiramos alas puestos politicos de la nacion. NOS ESCUCHARAN!!

3. Pedimos y tenemos el apoyo de la Iglesia en 10 quehacemos. En frente de la Peregrinacion llevamos a laVirgen de Guadalupe porque ella es nuestra, todanuestra, REINA DE LOS MEXICANOS. Tambien lleva­IlDS la Santa Cruz y la Estrella de David porque nosomos sectanos, y pOl'que pedimos la ayuda y lasoraciones de todas las religiones. Todos los hombresson hermanos, hijos del mismo Dios, POI' eso les

decimos a todos los hombres de buena voluntad, en laspalabras del Papa Leo XIII, "EI primer debar de todoses el de protejer a los trabajadores de las avaricias delos especuladores, quienes usan a los seres humanoscomo simples instrumentos para hacer dinero. No esni justo pero ni humano oprimir a los hombres contrabajo excesivo a tal grado que sus mentes se embru­tescen y sus cuerpos se gasten." DIOS NO NOS HADE ABANDONAR!

4. Estamos sufriendo, hemos sufrido y no nos daniedo sufrir aun mas para ganar nuestra CAUSA.Hemos sufrido males e injusticias en el nom bre de laley. Nuestros hombres, "mujeres y ninos, han sufridono solo las brutalidades del trabajo en los files y lasinjusticias mas patentnes del Sistema, sino tambien ladesesperacion de saber que el sistema benefica laavaricia de hombres sin conciencia y no a nosotros. Senos hace que ahora sufriremos con el proposito deacabar con la pobreza, la miseria, la inj usticia, con laesperanza de que nuestros hijos no sean explotadoscomo hemos sido. Nos han impuesto el hambre, ahorasentimos el hambre poria justicia. Nuestra fuerzabrota de la misma desesperacion en que vi vimos.BASTA!

5. Nos uniremos. Hemos aprendido el sentido de laUNlOAD, sabemos el porque de la unidad de los EstadosUnidos - la fuerza de los pobres tambien esta en launion. Ya sabemos que la pobreza del trabajadormexicano 0 filipino en California es igual a la de todoslos otros carrpesinos en la Nacion, hay blancos ynegros, portoriquenos, japoneses, y arabes" enfin, todas las razas que formas las minorias oprim­idas en los Estados Unidos. La mayor parte denosotros en esta Peregrinacion somos mexicanos,pero el triunfo de nuestra raza depende en la asoci­acion de todos los carrpesinos de la Nicion. Losrancheros nos quieren divididos para tenernos deb­Hes. Muchos de nosotros hemos firmado contratosde trabajo individuales con los rancheros 0 loscontratistas, en los cuales e110s tenian todo el poder.Estos contratos eran farsas, una burla mas a nues ­tra impotencia. POl' eso nos tenemos q'uej juntaren convenios colectivQs para realizar 1:;. unica fuorzaque tenemos, la fuerza de los nurreros; los ranchensson pocos, nosotros somos muchos. IJNIDOS KQSLEVANTAMQ3!

e·. Tendremos Huelgas. Cumpliremos nuestro pro­posito de hacer una REVOLUCION. Somas hijos dela Revolucion Mexicana, que fuera una revolucionde los pobres buscando pan y justicia. Nuestrarevolucion no sera armada, pero queremos que elorden que hoy existe se deshag;a y que venga linnuevo orden social. Somas pobres, somos humildes,nuestro lmico reclU'SO es salirnos en huelga de todoslos ranchos donde no se nos trata can el respeto querrerecemos como hombres trabajadores y no se rec­onocen nuestros derechos como hombres lihres ysoberanos. No queremos el patern° alismo delpatroncito, no queremos el contratista, no queremoscaridades a casto de nuestra dignidad. Queremosigualdad can todos los trabajadores de la Nacion,queremos sueldos justos, mejores condiciones detrabajo, un porvenir decente para nuestros hijosA los que se nos openen, sean rancheros, contrat­istas, policias, politicos, a interesados, lesdecimos que vamos a seguir hasta morir a veneer.NOSOTROS VENCEREMCE.

Ahara par todo el Valle de San Joaquin, pol' todoCalifornia, pOl' todo el Suroeste de los E. u., pOl'dondequiera que haiga raza, pol' dondeq uiera quehayan campesinos, nuestro movimiento se va exten­dienda' caITO llamas atraves de un llano seco.Nuestra PEREGRINACION es la MECHA. para quenuestra causa prenda, para que lodos los campes­inos yean su luz, vean 10 que estamos hacienda aquiy que sepan que ellas tambien 10 pueden hacer. Hallegado la hora de la liberacion del pobre campesino.

Asi 10 dispone la historia. QUE SIGA LA HTJELGA!

Cancion: ~~Viva huelga en general"

El corrido mas famoso de los huelg uistas, escrito por Luis Miguel Valdez de Delano.

Hasta Mexico ha llegadola noticia muy alegreque Delano es diferente.

Pues el pueblo ya esta en contralos rancheros y engreidosque acababan con la gente.

Y como somos hermanosla alegria compartimoscon todos los campesinos.

VIVA LA REVOLUCION!VIVA NUESTRA ASOCIACION!VIVA HUELGA EN GENERAL!

El dia 8 de Septiembrede los campos de· Delanosalieron los filipinos.

Y despues de dos semanaspara unirse a la batallasalieron los mexicanos.

Y juntos vamos cumpliendocon la marcha de la historiapara liberar el pueblo.

VIVA LA REVOLUCION!VIVA NUESTRA ASOCIACION!VIVA HUELGA EN GENERAL!VIVA LA HUELGA EN EL FIL!VIVA LA CAUSA EN LA HISTORIA!LA RAZA LLENA DE GLORIA!LA VICTORIA VA CUMPLIR!

Nos dicen los patroncitosque el trabajo siempre se hacecon bastantes esquiroles.

Y de Nuevo Leon y Tej ashan traido sin verguenzasmuertos de hambre por frijoles.

Pero hombres de la razase fajan y no se rajanmientras la uva se hace pasa.

VIVA LA REVOLUCION!VIVA NUESTRA ASOCIACION!VIVA HUELGA EN GENERAL!

Ya saben los contratistasque ni caro ni baratocompraran nuestros hermanos.

Pero como es bien sabidoque pa'mantener familiasmas sueldos necesitamos.

Ya esta bueno, companeroscomo dice Cesar Chavez"Esta Huelga Ganaremos !"

ABAJO LOS CONTRATISTAS!ARRIBA NUESTROS HUELGUISTAS!QUE SE ACABE EL ESQUIROL!VIVA LA HUELGA EN EL FIL!VIVA LA CAUSA EN LA HISTORIA!LA RAZA LLENA DE GLORIA!LA VICTORIA VA CUMPLIR!

·canclon: la peregrinacion par augustine lira

Y que yo ede decirQue yo estoy cansadoQue el camino es largoY no se ve el fin.

Yo no vengo a cantarPorque mi voz sea buenaNi tampoco a 110rarMi mal estar.

Que no auisieraYo descansarPero mialmagritaTu no puedes descansar.

Desde Delano voyHasta SacramentoHasta Sacr amentoMis derechos a peliar.

Mi VirgencitaGuadalupana011e estos pasosQue e1 mundo los sabra.

Desde Delano voyHasta SacramentoHasta SacramentoMis derechos a peliar.

Huelguista - a striker. Esquirol - a strikebreaker, a scab.Peregrinacion - a pilgrimage, a march. Peregrinos - pilgrims.Huelga General - a general strike, for Patroncito - from patron, boss master.example, a day when all the farm workers Patroncito describes the boss as a littlein California decide to take a vacation. man, probably fat, probably not as brave

La Raza - the Mexican people. or good as he pretends to be.Contratista - a middle-man closer to the Gobernador - the man elected to representrancher than the worker; one who earns a all of the people in the state.living by buying and se lling the labor of another.

signs and symbols of the peregrinacion

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The Banner of dur Lady of Guadelupe. Our Lady of Guadelupe is the patron saint of theMexican people; she first appeared to Juan Diego, an Indian, and her imprint was left onhis poncho as a sign of the miraculous appearance. Many Spanish-speaking Catholicchurches in California are named for her. The .banner carried at the head of the pro­cession was made by Alicia Jiminez, 22, of Sacramento, formerly of Aguas Calientes.A smaller replica of her is carried by Jose Ibarra who marched from Hollister with her.

The SCHENLEY balloon. Designed and made by a partisan from Los Angeles. A remind­er to boycott all Schenley products until they bargain fairly with the N. F. W.A.

HUELGA buttons. A sign of support for the strike. In red, white, and black, the offi­cial colors of the Association. A visible symbol of which side you are on. Sold today.

The Church of Our Lady of Guadelupe, 711 T St., Sacramento. Our official host in Sacra­mento. The priest, Fr. Keith Kenny, has been brave and strong for the strikers sincethe very beginning. He flewhis plane over the fields andcalled to the scabs that theranchers had hidden in themiddle of the fields. D. A. sare still trying to decide ifhe or his companion areguilty of "disturbing thepeace". Members of thischurch have contributed alot of food and money toDelano and have worked veryhard to make Easter Day awonderful occasion for everyperson here today.

The Mexican flag. A reminder of the Mexican Revolution, a symbol of liberation. Atribute to the native land of many peregrinos. A reminder of the inspiration of PanchoVilla, Emiliano Zapata and Cura Hildago.

The American flag. A sign of loyalty to the nation which seeks to provide "liberty andjustice for all".

if •you want to help...

the farm workers associationThe National Farm Workers Association was founded in 1962 by a few hundred farm work­er families, mostly Mexical-Americans. They were searching for a way to lift themsel­ves out of the poverty imposed on them by California's corporate agriculture.The Association made its headquarters in Delano and under the leadership of Cesar Chaveza broad program of social services, insurance, a credit union and a newspaper was initia­ted. The Association was supported entirely by dues from its membership, which grew toseveral thousand families. In 1965, the first strike came--against the state's rose industrycentered in nearby McFarland; and later against the vineyards of J. D. Martin, millionaireTulare County rancher.In September 1965, with the cry of HUELGA, a new chapter in the Association's historybegan. The great Delano grape strike goes on.The need for strike funds is continuous. Contributions may be sent to:FARM WORKERS RELIEF FUND, Box 894, Delano, California.Readers can keep informed on the progress of the strike and Association by subscribing tothe bi-weekly magazine: EL MALCRIADO; Voice of the Farm Worker, Box 1060, Delano.$2.00 for 26 issues in either Spanish or English. To learn more about the first 100 daysof the strike, send today for a copy of HUELGA, by Eugene Nelson. 160 pages with manyphotos, $1. 50. Write Farm Worker Press, Box 1060, Delano, California.

fAitM WORKER PRESS, INC.P. O. Box 1060

Delanu, Cnlifornia

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