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Chavez and the United Farm Workers
AFL CIO leaders offered Chavez a deal. They would give the UFW 1.6 million dollars on the condition that instead of fighting skirmishes farmed by farm Chavez would push for state legislation governing rights of farm laborers in all California On its surface this seemed like a sensible strategy, but Chavez had his doubts All his victories had come through strikes boycotts and marches He worried that formal legislation would bury his union under a mountain of bureaucracy and sap it of its strength as a social movement. But he needed the money so he agreed to the AFL CIO's terms now flush with cash.
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