Brown University

Chavez charges payoffs to Teamsters

Description

Abstract:
Cesar Chavez, president of the United Farm Workers Union charged that growers in California were engaged in a conspiracy with Teamsters union officials involving illegal cash payments in order to crush his union. One Teamster official has testified that he witnessed growers paying Teamsters in order to intimidate members of the UFW into accepting a Teamster contract. The majority of farm workers polled said they would rather be part of the UFW, but had been pressured into joining the Teamsters.

Access Conditions

Rights
In Copyright
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Citation

New York Times Service, "Chavez charges payoffs to Teamsters" (1973). Educating Change. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:105186/

Relations

Collection:

  • Educating Change

    Powerfully illustrated through the lives of three Mexican/Chicana women - Ramona Medina, Socorro Gomez-Potter, and Yolanda Almaraz-Esquivel - "Educating Change:  Latina Activism and the Struggle for Educational Equity" documents a history of Mexican women's migration and activism, and considers its …
    ...