It is sad for us to report this, but the clock has been turned back and California agriculture, with the exception of a handful of contracts that we … - Dolores Huerta

When we try to go to the Government for any kind of help, even for the enforcement of the sanitation laws. the Government turns its head.

we go to the courts, and we try to get some relief from the courts, but there, again, we find that we have none. The courts, on the other hand, issue injunctions against the strikers.

We have had tremendous difficulties in trying to organize farmworkers. I don’t think, first of all, that we have to belabor the reason why farmworkers need a union. The horrible state in which farmworkers find themselves, faced with such extreme poverty and discrimination, has taught us that the only way we can change our situation is by organization of a union. I don’t believe that it can be done any other way. Certainly, we can’t depend on Government to do it, nor can we expect them to take the responsibility.