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United Farm Workers | Birth of a Movement | 1
American History Tellers
The CSO's Financial Troubles
Chavez moved his family to Boyle Heights, where Fred Ross and Edward Roybal had founded the CSO 12 years earlier. When Chavez opened the books, he saw that his organization was in dire financial straits Many organizers had to be laid off to cut costs But despite the CSO's shaky financial footing, they managed to establish dozens of rural chapters That serviced each town's growing farm worker population. In 1962, Chavez sought to create a committee to tackle this particular need of the farm worker He wanted to create a pilot program on how to organize farm workers into a union.
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