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Mr Chavez cannot say exactly when he will decide whether or not there will be a strike and boycott in the Salinas Valley. He says we can't tip our hand. But from what he does say to this point, it seems likely that a strike and boycott will

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be called possibly very soon. Battle brian for eyewitness news in Selena's. Mhm. Yeah. Um signed with him. The employees have gotten together the teamsters and they're now firing our people because they won't sign a yet. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. They will

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go a long way and everybody has. Yeah. Okay. How many do you represent? Well, you see, we've been here since 1962 and we've had small committees beginning then and they've been getting larger with the years. But I think that we say that honestly between 90, 90-95

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of the workers are signed up with the Union. How many in actual numbers do you represent? Well, uh, I think we asked. No one really knows how many members workers there are in selling this valley, but how do you expect to pull out on strike? Oh,

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well, uh, we, uh, we're now, uh, asking for loans for a strike fund. Ah, as many as many workers as we can put in a strike fund and we think most of them can be on the strike fund on the strike benefit rather. And this will

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be, well, you know, Approximately 5 5008, something like that for a long strike. Oh, yeah, sure. We know that it's going to be a long one in a real difficult one. But we're prepared. Yeah. Smiles in years. I was 25. Okay. We're not going to stand

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by and let our people be shoved around and fired because they don't, they don't want to let the grower shove another union down their throats that they don't want, they want their own union and they're demanding it and the gross no and the team's just know

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everybody knows that that the deepest don't represent anybody in the fields, you know and yeah, we're not gonna sit around and let them do that. We're going to have to take some out. You're definitely going to strike. Ah I think that the it looks pretty definite

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now a lot depends on what the employers do. Mhm.