Our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain. The time has come for the liberation of the poor farm worker. iViva la causa!
Those fiery words of five years ago illustrate the charisma that made Cesar Chavez a liberal hero and his United Farm Workers of America a power in the grape and vegetable fields of the Southwest. Today, another side of Chavez's personality is becoming painfully apparent: his talents as a union administrator scarcely match his gift for inspirational leadership. Partly as a result, his prediction has a hollow ring; the U.F.W.A. is fighting now to stay alive....
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