1 50 1 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/11651/archive/files/0d27b961899e3c658ef63f86f1ec8576.jpg?Expires=1774483200&Signature=vkDqgdyJDTzV%7EfC5uYU9VyVHjaZCChDnbiRH25bVLUemcqnS02A0tEcbPY6Yw0rX2Ky8mEI0rpVB9odRIDjf67-5UzLmQwdf6iixAF0arLLjkkdWB5TfIb%7EC5IJc%7ESqwTSUKGoyheG1lsdzFaFybPTDfCurZnh0PiTV1aPRmq%7ETBlo7WlndmdKVEkH7sEndVuVSt5W5ZnKjNzomVdTqsoBdSHsfeQJ9E687-4KhnUw3kOboC21C2Zg4Vl6KozPdFPW%7EWZ5a4CwdMNiiihJnXi1GdBzQHBo9vWZ50e80bQ1Ul4-IvMfib-w-%7Ec8-Ian9sUrA9geTmtdov2uz1ZTHzbQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM ff8aaf73eb639a948539c4dd3064aedb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource UC Davis Asian American Studies files Subject The topic of the resource Filipino-American Farmworker History, United Farm Workers, Philip Vera Cruz Description An account of the resource Publications, oral history interviews, and newsletters regarding the United Farm Workers and the Filipino-American leadership. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1969-1977 Text A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. PHOENIX, May 25 – A two-day march by several hundred Arizona farm workers into Phoenix, and a rally attended by over 500 farm workers and their supports, set the stage for the newest drive by the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO, to bring justice to American farm workers. Gustavo Gutierrez, leader of the UFWOC in Arizona, reports that UFWOC began stepping up its organizing drive in Arizona a year ago. Last year, he reports, wages jumped from $1.25 or less to $1.35 or $1.40 an hour. “Since we began organizing in the grapes, the jump in wages has been fantastic.” He reports. “I was tying vines in February for $1.40 an hour at El Dorado Ranch near El Mirage. Now they’re paying $1.65. Matori’s Arrowhead Ranch raised wages from $1.35 to $1.65 when they heard that we’re signing up their workers. But that’s just in the grapes. Some of their tractor drives still get $1.35.” The Union is concentrating on Arizona grape growers, since pressure from the grape boycott can also be brought to bear on them. Most Arizona grape growers also grow other crops and many of the ranches are owned by big corporations (agribusiness). Dispoto Ranch of Delano owns land in Arizona. Bianco has another huge ranch where UFWOC already has a strike in California, owns a large ranch in Arizona. El Dorado Farms, one of Arizona’s biggest grape ranches, has headquarters in Dinuba, California. And one of the largest grape vineyards in Arizona is owned by J.G. Boswell Farms, the huge agribusiness complex that owns over 32,000 acres in California and collected a modest $4,000,000 or more a year in Federal subsidies for not growing cotton. Boswell sits on the Board of Directors of Safeway Stores, which is continuing to buy scab grapes in spite of the tremendous consumer pressure on Safeway to discontinue buying the scab product. Helping Gutierrez and the other workers in Arizona are UFWOC organizers Manuel Chavez, Fernando Chavez, Willie Barrientos, and Pancho Botello. Manuel Rivera and his family, who left Delano to head the Grape Boycott in Arizona, are also helping in the organizing drive Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Strike Nears in Arizona Vineyards Subject The topic of the resource Barrientos, Willie Grape Strike, Calif., 1965-1970 [lcsh] Labor union members [lcsh] United Farm Workers Organizing Committee [lcna] Description An account of the resource UFW article depicting the UFW strike organizers in Arizona. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived El Malcriado, the Voice of the Farm Worker Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 18, 1969 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This material may be protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S. Code) and is intended solely for personal or educational use. Any commercial use without permission is prohibited. Language A language of the resource English Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available United Farm Workers Organizing Committee wa004s001