Cesar Chavez

[CBStew]

I am curious about the movie coming out tomorrow.  I was Cesar's first attorney back in 1965, fighting off the injunctions that Di Giorgio and Schenley got in friendly Tulare County courts during the grape strike.  I also had quite a few criminal cases related to picket line activity.  I have a feeling that my contribution to La Huelga will not be portrayed.  At the time I was in a small office in San Francisco that mostly represented Teamsters.  The Teamsters were trying to get what was then called the National Farmworkers' Organizing Committee to break away from the AFL/CIO and affiliate with them.  So the Teamsters asked me to go down to Delano.  A lawyer who was representing a rival labor union asked me to come to work for him.  I did, bringing Cesar's union with me and the two unions merged.  That was in 1966, and our office grew from 2 lawyers to over 40 today.

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I am curious about the movie coming out tomorrow.  I was Cesar's first attorney back in 1965, fighting off the injunctions that Di Giorgio and Schenley got in friendly Tulare County courts during the grape strike.  I also had quite a few criminal cases related to picket line activity.  I have a feeling that my contribution to La Huelga will not be portrayed.  At the time I was in a small office in San Francisco that mostly represented Teamsters.  The Teamsters were trying to get what was then called the National Farmworkers' Organizing Committee to break away from the AFL/CIO and affiliate with them.  So the Teamsters asked me to go down to Delano.  A lawyer who was representing a rival labor union asked me to come to work for him.  I did, bringing Cesar's union with me and the two unions merged.  That was in 1966, and our office grew from 2 lawyers to over 40 today.

This is amazing.
The only site indeed.

[R-V]

I am curious about the movie coming out tomorrow.  I was Cesar's first attorney back in 1965, fighting off the injunctions that Di Giorgio and Schenley got in friendly Tulare County courts during the grape strike.  I also had quite a few criminal cases related to picket line activity.  I have a feeling that my contribution to La Huelga will not be portrayed.  At the time I was in a small office in San Francisco that mostly represented Teamsters.  The Teamsters were trying to get what was then called the National Farmworkers' Organizing Committee to break away from the AFL/CIO and affiliate with them.  So the Teamsters asked me to go down to Delano.  A lawyer who was representing a rival labor union asked me to come to work for him.  I did, bringing Cesar's union with me and the two unions merged.  That was in 1966, and our office grew from 2 lawyers to over 40 today.

This is amazing.
The only site indeed.

Damn, that's awesome. Look forward to hearing your thoughts on the movie, Stew.