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it was to really destroy the farmworker movement and to destroy it in such a way that uh will take away the rights of the workers to do basically two very important things in order to defend themselves and when contracts. One is that it takes the right

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to strike from us and also takes the writer boycotting. Why do you need those rights? What's so important about that? But you say we maintain agriculture is different. It's always been different. That's why agriculture and farm workers were never organized before. As long as we have

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a poor country uh border in California, it's gonna be very difficult to win strikes. Uh, strikes are one uh normally by other unions with an employer, as is the case right now in one of the strikes we have with the with the butte Gas and Oil

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Company where we've closed them down. They have been unable to get strikebreakers or have gotten very few. And then all of a sudden yesterday morning, ah They brought in 220 ***. These are the illegals from Mexico now, mm there's no way to defend against that kind

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of strike breaking. And so therefore the only way to win strikes is by then taking our fight to the to the citizens, to the people in the city especially and have them help us um boycott those products that were striking and we need that. And that's

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the only way we've been able to get contracts. And I venture to say that without that we couldn't possibly organize unions. Well, this is the people in one way, the only way they can, the only way they can go to the public and that's the public

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to vote, to take the right to strike of farm workers and the right to boycott is by then coming around and saying that they are very concerned about the rights of workers and workers who have a right to a free election to a secret ballot election.

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And these things. Well, what's really happened is that proposition 22 uh really in its in its uh its opening paragraph really says that they're really interested in what they call the uninterrupted production, packing, processing, transporting, and marketing of agricultural products. This is their main concern, which

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means then that they're concerned about strikes and boycotts. Then, uh as an afterthought, they say that workers are free to organize, but then they go right back and take away all those freedoms that workers need to organize. Well, how about the secret about the that an

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informed public would work against it, you see, because two is a stab in the back to every working man and woman in California would undercut the whole concept of collective bargain. Now, if you single out the farm workers and say that they don't have rights that

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other americans have. Sooner or later, that philosophy spreads, it's like a disease, and the place to stop anti labor legislation of that kind is for the voters in California to reject proposition.