Nicole’s Reviews > Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers > Status Update

“But in keeping control of the UFW, he crippled it. He politically enfeebled its local leaders and divided its ranks. The union still had the contracts, but it didn’t have a united membership and a movement to protect them. La Paz had smothered the farm worker soul of the union. The body would wither and die. Only the head would live”

“Foster’s editors at the Salinas Californian, also owned by Gannett, cut the last line about hoping Mexicans would be the ones killed. As the UFW asserted at the time and as the local newspapers were keen to hide, the confrontations between the circus and the strikers inflamed the racial antagonisms already inherent in the overall battle between mostly Anglo bosses and the predominately Mexican farm workers.”