Chavez charges payoffs to Teamsters New York times New York Times Service creator nyu New York New York Times Service 1973 eng 2 p. 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. Educating Change: Latina Activism and the Struggle for Educational Equity 15 http://brown.edu/Research/Coachella/ 1122573716953125 Teamsters United Farm Workers In CopyrightCollection is open for research.text