america and were being sent from farm to farm with barely livable housing conditions. there are no bathrooms in the fields, often no clean drinking water. workers would be forced to use the short-handled hoe, which is a backbreaking 18 inches from the ground. but it s an instrument of psychological oppression because the supervisors could look down the row, and if someone stood up to stretch, they could order them back to work. essentially, there were no labor laws, no health and safety laws that applied to farm workers. what do you think of the idea of a union for farm workers? i think it s ridiculous. would you want to live in this i wouldn t live here. you know, you re being very impudent. would i want to live here? we have a real tough combination pitted against us. in 1966, it has occurred to a few of them that they ought to have a union. this is the union they formed,
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the united farm workers organizing committee. their leader, cesar chavez, started out as a migrant field worker with a seventh grade education. cesar chavez was largely self-taught and becomes this great student of history. he studies gandhi and martin luther king. you ve got to get out there with a picket sign and get some action going. and when you put all of those things together, then nonviolence works. the united farm workers realized very early on you have to move people. you have to inspire them. so, they set upon a march from delano to sacramento. it s a march to get the strike and the farm workers story outside of california. not just delano. we re fighting for everybody. you get scenes that resemble some of the things that happened in the south, workers just being nonviolent in the face of provocation from the police. it s a pleading for social change, for social justice to the farm worker and its cause.
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yes. migrant farm workers were getting paid pennies to feed america and were being sent from farm to farm with barely livable housing conditions. there are no bathrooms in the fields, often no clean drinking water. workers would be forced to use the shorthandle hoe, which is a backbreaking 18 inches from the ground. but it s an instrument of psychological oppression because the supervisors could look down the row. and if someone stood up to stretch, they could order them back to work. essentially, there were no labor laws, no health and safety laws that applied to farm workers. what do you think of the idea of a union for farm workers? i think it s ridiculous. would you want to live in this i wouldn t live here. you know, you re being very impudent. would i want to live here? we have a real tough competition pitted against us. in 1956, it has occurred to a few of them that they ought to have a union.