United Farmer Workers of America

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Across
  1. 2. organized supermarket customers and produced terminals throughout the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe
  2. 5. Gandhi India's nonviolent revolutionary leader who fought for independence from the British Empire. This person was a role model for Cesar Chavez
  3. 6. teamster thugs paid by the growers to harass and intimidate farmworkers who supported the UFW
  4. 8. a ballad written in Spanish praising a famous individual
  5. 10. Contractors farm bosses in charge of hiring, paying, and sometimes transporting farmworkers
  6. 12. a court order obtained by growers from local judges during most farm labor strikes
  7. 14. Disobedience the decision to break specific laws because they are unjust
  8. 15. a community organization founded by the UFW in the late 1980s to deal with farmworker issues
  9. 16. the Spanish word for "strike" and the name of one of Cesar Chavez's German Shepherd guard dogs
  10. 18. Nine a hastily conceived boycott in 1971 of nine non-union wineries in Northern California during the suspension of the lettuce boycott while fruitless negotiations took place
  11. 19. Causa the Spanish word for "The Cause"
Down
  1. 1. a U.S. government-sponsored worker importation program
  2. 3. poor neighborhoods populated by Latino people
  3. 4. the name given to the day-care center for the children of fulltime staff at La Paz
  4. 6. teamster goons sent to the Coachella Valley in 1973 for the purpose of intimidating the striking grape workers and their supporters
  5. 7. Ropers a dismissive term coined by farmworker volunteers at La Paz to characterize white cowboy-types who lived in Tehachapi, a small town located uphill from La Paz
  6. 9. Colores a popular farmworker song, sung by all UFW supporters at most union meetings
  7. 11. Heads and Rice a Filipino delicacy introduced to movement volunteers
  8. 13. a Mexican-American self-help organization active throughout California in the 1950s
  9. 17. the Spanish word for strikebreaker or scab