1960's - 1970's UNITED FARM WORKERS UFW ZAPATA We Will Win BOYCOTT PROTEST PIN

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1 1 /2 INCH CELLULOID PINBACK BUTTON. SEE PHOTO AS TO CONDITION AND YOU BE THE JUDGE. WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET. SHOULD YOU HAVE MORE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT ITS CONDITION, PLEASE CONTACT ME BEFORE BIDDING OR PURCHASING. Back metal has some oxidation, but no rust, splits in the celluloid or spots. Very nice shape. THIS ITEM CAN BE RETURNED WITHIN 7 DAYS OF RECEIPT IF NOT THE SAME ONE SHOWN IN THE PHOTOS (WILL NEVER HAPPEN), OR THERE IS SOME SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM OR DEFECT IN IT THAT IS NOT SHOWN IN THE PHOTO OR MENTIONED. 1960'S TO 1970'S United Farm Workers organizing pin.Has image of Emiliano Zapata, the Mexican revolutionary in Southern Mexico in the 1910's. His image is on many UFW pins, a couple of which are also being listed along with this one . Zapata is holding a flag that reads in Spanish, Nosotros Venceremos, which I believe translates in English to We Will Win. The Spanish slogan is also found on many UFW pins. Artist is Sue Lyons (her name is on curl). She is the artist on numerous left wing pins from the San Francisco Bay Area. BRIEF HISTORY OFTHE UFW The United Farm Workers of America (UFW) is a labor union founded by Philip Vera Cruz, Dolores Huerta, and Cesar Chavez . This union changed from a workers' rights organization that helped workers get unemployment insurance to that of a union of farmworkers almost overnight, when the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) went out on strike in support of the mostly Filipino farmworkers of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC ) led by Larry Itliong in Delano, California who had previously initiated a grape strike on September 8, 1965 . The NFWA and the AWOC, recognizing their common goals and methods, and realizing the strengths of coalition formation, jointly formed the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee on August 22, 1966. This organization eventually became the United Farm Workers and launched a boycott of table grapes that, after five years of struggle, finally won a contract with the major grape growers in California. The union then brought in thousands more lettuce workers in the Salinas and Imperial Valleys and orange workers in Florida employed by subsidiaries of Coca-Cola. The union publicly adopted the principles of non-violence championed by Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The union was poised to launch its next major campaign in the orange fields in 1973 when a deal between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the growers nearly destroyed it. The growers signed contracts giving the Teamsters the right to represent the workers who had been members of the UFW. The UFW responded with strikes, lawsuits and boycotts, including secondary boycotts in the retail grocery industry. The union struggled to regain the members it had lost in the lettuce field; it never fully recovered its strength in grapes, due in some part to incompetent management of the hiring halls it had established that seemed to favor some workers over others. The battles in the fields became violent , with a number of UFW members killed on the picket line. The violence led the state in 1975 to enact the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, creating an administrative agency that oversaw secret ballot elections and binding arbitration for collective bargaining impasses. . GREAT PROTEST CAUSE LABOR UNION STRIKE ORGANIZING PROGRESSIVE BOYCOTT TRAIN ITEM NOTE: THIS IS A HOBBY FOR ME, NOT A BUSINESS . ALL ITEMS I LIST ARE FROM MY PERSONAL COLLECTIONS AND WERE NOT BOUGHT FOR RE SALE. ANY PROCEEDS GO TO MY PURCHASING OF OTHER ITEM S FOR M Y COLLECTIONS AT NO FINANCIAL PROFIT. I HAVE BEEN COLLECTING SOCIAL MOVEMENT ITEMS FOR OVER 40 YEARS. I AM A LONG TIME MEMBER OF APIC, AMERICAN POLITICAL ITEMS COLLECTORS . IF YOU ARE NOT A MEMBER, YOU SHOULD JOIN. GREAT ORGANIZATION! ITEMS WILL BE SAFELY AND WELL PACKED TO PREVENT DAMAGE DURING SHIPPING, AND SHIPPED BY FIRST CLASS MAIL, WITH DELIVERY CONFIRMATION , (IT COSTS 80 CENTS ALONG), POSTAGE AND HAN... read more

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