A Cessna 180 piloted by Roman Catholic Priest Keith Kenny swooped low over the San Joaquin valley vineyards outside Delano, Calif. Through a bullhorn another priest, the Rev. Arnold Meagher, shouted to the cluster of Mexican grape pickers below: "Huelga! Strike! Respect the picket lines. Don't be strikebreakers."
Landing a bit later in Delano, they were met by two priests representing the local bishop, Aloysius Willinger of Monterey-Fresno. They told the flying fathers to stop inciting the strike: "The bishop feels that this is none of your business and asks that you go back to your own diocese." Protested Kenny,...
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