Posted on 03/31/2006 1:40:59 PM PST by RightField
I beg to differ. Chavez was only out for Chavez. I lived it firsthand. See my post above. I know how the farm workers felt when Chavez and his gang rolled into our town. They were terrified of him.
A lot of people don’t know that. While he was clearly a union guy, he was adamantly against illegal immigration and even let protests against it.
Ultimately, his effort to unionize the field workers, provide them with a safer work environment and better wages failed. The agriculture industry was able to import the greatest influx of illegal immigration during the 70s and 80s and wiped Chavez and crew off the map.
thank you so much for sharing that..I think it is very important to publicize the truth about the thug who prompts a state holiday... more people need to know!
Time the truth was out about this guy.
FRegards,
Have you ever seen where he called home in CA? It looked like a plantation. He lived in a huge "main" house. Gorgeous. However, the shacks that surrounded it were hovels. That's where the workers lived. He charged a huge amount (for that time) for "union dues", money that the workers could no longer send to their families.
I am in no way for illegal immigration but please do not say that Chavez did anything to benefit the migrant workers. That is the myth that now is presented as fact. He forced them to join his union by beating them up, threatening them, blocking their way into the fields, and following them at the end of the day to where their wives and daughters were.
OK, I was just a kid at the time, all i really remember is the boycotts, and stuff,I always defer to those who were on the site so to speak, that is why I said "some good" I should have put it into quotion marks.. thanks CAl
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