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United Farm Workers | Birth of a Movement | 1
American History Tellers
The Rise and Fall of the CSO
In 1953, when Caesar Chavez was laid off by the general box company, Fred Ross arranged to put him on the CSO payroll. His new job was to travel all over California, setting up new CSO chapters. He met Dolores Huerta at a 1955 fundraiser and they hit it off immediately. By 1957, he was starting to become disillusioned with the CSO because of its growing focus on urban workers. But in 1958, his bosses gave him a challenge that reawakened his passion for the work. The Packinghouse Union had been trying unsuccessfully to negotiate labor contracts for their largely Mexican American workforce. They wanted the CSO to help organize the workers and strengthen its
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