The agribusinesses the UFW confronts are among the most powerful and greedy U.S. corporations. These mighty monopolies have at their service the cops, the courts, and the bureaucrats of the Teamsters union.

In order to defeat this vast conspiracy, la causa must become the cause of millions--Chicanos, students, trade unionists, and working people as a whole.

The enactment of the California farm labor bill sets the stage for renewed efforts to win UFW contracts covering farm workers in that state. The UFW is continuing its boycott of non-UFW lettuce, grapes, and wine. This boycott, which has already hurt the growers, can help force them to sign contracts with the union that represents the farm workers.

All those who support the UFW's struggle for decent working conditions and social justice should respond to the UFW's appeals for stepped-up activity in support of the boycott.  
 
 
June 26, 1950
"Loyalty" oaths are a trademark of police states. Every regime that fears its own subjects, that rules by fiat and force, demands repeated and ever louder assurances of "loyalty" from the people. To be silent and submissive is not enough. You must get down on your knees and servilely swear that not in deed nor even in thought will you ever oppose the regime or its policies.

Nothing better reveals the state of democracy and civil liberties in the United States today than the spread of the "loyalty" oath. Starting with employees of the federal government, the "loyalty" system is spreading into every sphere of American life--to teachers, lawyers, doctors, garbage collectors. Unions are denied government recognition unless their leaders take "loyalty" oaths; corporations are demanding contracts giving them power to fire workers who refuse to take "loyalty" oaths.

The spread of the "loyalty" oath attests how aware the capitalist rulers of America are of the feeble hold their system has on the true loyalty of the American people.  
 
 
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