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Yeah, yeah, it's our purpose as clergymen and laymen to give support to the Farm Workers Association, to march with them on the picket lines and to provide an opportunity to learn more about this situation. Mhm. It is a tense situation and it's potentially quite dangerous. We

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feel that the farm workers need our support, not only uh being there, they need money, they need food. And uh we feel that it is uh Unsalled for in our kind of society for people to live on less than $3500 a year and to live in

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this kind of poverty. Historically, labor unions have failed miserably in attempting to organize migrant workers. This is the largest build up of farm workers supporting an attempt to organize. This could very likely be the point, or the place in history where the entire uh problem of

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the migrant farm worker is is brought into focus and uh the labor unions will have the ability to move in and organize the entire entire farm worker a situation in the state. I see nothing inimitable with the church involving itself in this type of work. If

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we're concerned about people were concerned about those forms that go about attempting to involve, uh, people in achieving equality to be a labor union, be it a political organization, then that's the media or vehicle that can be utilized.