Unity among workers
"UFW Filipino Strikers were always called `The Filipino Brothers'" (Photo and Caption from the Farmworker Movement Online Gallery)
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"Iconic photo of Catalino Tachilbon one of the Filipino Brothers of the Delano Strike" (Photo and Caption from the Farmworker Movement Online Gallery)
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The grape growers used to keep the different races separate and pit them against each other. When one group strikes, the other group is used as “scabs” (replacement workers). But after the farmworkers united under the UFWOC, the growers could no longer use them against each other.
Pete Velasco with Mexican workers at the Coachella March in May 1969. (Photo from the Farmworker Movement Online Gallery)
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Regular meetings at the Filipino Hall for all members of the union. (Photo from the Farmworker Movement Online Gallery)
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