1972_10 The Daily Collegian October 1972

              E DAILY COLLEOIAN    Thuredey. Octobor 36. I
THE OCEAN
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He's not the same Jim Holmes
who plays Father Berrigan
The Trial of the Catonsville
now playing at the CSUF
Little Theatre and, as the Colle-
please the activist,.' No doubt
ihey meant -the liberal actlv-
el*« could be so
credulous as to be pleased hythe
contents of the play - as distinguished from Its presentation.
I.e. the acting, direction etc..
which was superb. (Incidentally.
I do NOT play the part of Philip
Berrigan. That is another James
istant themes In      lorlty
svllie' i
it Daniel Berrigan whi
fendante to talk about anything
even remotely related to their
actions at Catonsville. In the
course of the hearing the defen-
danta tried,- aa the exasperated
Judge periodically remarked, the
open occupancy Issue, the United
Fruit Company, the Catholic
BUhop, of Ihe U.S.. the late
Cardinal Spellman. the social
structure of Guatemala and *the
whole history of the world In the
20th Century.*
Not that I blame the Berrigan,
much. If my case waa a, vulnerable as theirs. Pd try to change
ik* subject too. Because what the
^food father, are saying tn *Ca-
i fellowa. If certain
to place themselves
above th* law for any rcaauu under the sun. whether It be personal conscience, vanity, love,
hatred - or Divine Revelation,
for that matter - then thedomo-
cratlc society won't be around
very long.
A country like ours operates
on th* indlspensible premise that
the law la mightier than the man.
Fascism operatea on the opposite
premise, that certain men are
mightier than the law. Thus spoke
Hitler.
Conscience la not above the
law.
Because conscience compels
certain East Indian Individual,
to practice ritual strangling,
shall the U.S. then tolerate
thuggee?
Because some highly I
Individuals have at vark
felt Impelled hy I
to practice pulygamy, are *
consequently obliged to legall)
s,  ^Continued on back page)
23K
ONE TRACH MIND
Sugar is sweet, chugar isn't
Ai one University ofCallfornla
campus a Chlcana Is fighting the
administration over some ethnic
Issue.   That   all   sounds   vague.
if being a grammar school
t and being warned that If
er spoke Spanish again her
allfornla. The area was first
etiled by Mexicans. English was
he Intruding tongue. Vol there,
no, Spanish was a no-nn during
English language. I remember Ihe
rule and I remember being upset
whenever someone spokeSpanlsh.
It upset niv fifth grade mind
that someone was breaking the
rule. These Mexican-American,
kids (called, to my disgust,
•chooks" hy white chlldrenlwere
engaging In civil disobedience.
They were doing something they
By Loo Trachtonborg
he would say "chugar" instead of
sugar. At my school, sugar wa*
sweet but chugar wasn't and he
w»s constantly being corrected.
I asked a Chlrano politician
from another University why
Fresno Stale Student president
Lupe De La Cruz would be tajking
In English and In the middle or
a sentence switch toSpanish.The
other student said it was a matter
of phrasing - whi
thought   could   bo   e
reasons why De La Crur. ought to
have his mouth washed out with
soap, speaking Spanish Isn't one
THE DAILY COLLEGIA!!
 Thuredey, Octobor 36. 1973    THE DAILY COLLEOIAN   E
Editorial ~~'"
Vote No on Prop. 22
Proposition », the so-called Agricultural Labor Relations Inltla-   .
live, purport, to aolve today', problems on California farm. Unfortunately, It will only create new ones, *•
The proposition would only provoke conflict, not prevent lt. It would
take a step backward In progress, not a atep forward. It would discourage Ihe passage of national farm labor legislation, not encourage
The proposition Is unjust because It contains various provlalona
designed to destroy the farm workera union and deny more than two-
thlrda of the stale's 235,000 farm workers the right to vote In their
own representational election.
11 la further unjust because It Is designed to cripple the farm work-
era' ability to boycott, which has proved the poor people's most effective non-vtolent method to carry their m
public.
The n
recognized union.
More Importantly, the proposition 1* an attempt by th* giant a«rt-
bualnea* corporations to permit grower* to keep their worker* la
Ceaar E. chavex. Director of theUnlted Farm Workera, AFL-CIO,
„ld, 'Why are our opponenta ao afraid of a union for migrant farm
workera? I, it ao much to aak that the poorest people of the land have
a measure of Justice?
•Somehow these powerful men and women must be helped to realize
lhat there Is nothing to fear from treating their workera aa fellow
human lwlngs. We do not seek lo destroy the growers. We only wish
an opportunity to organize our union and to work non-vtolently to
bring a new day of hope and Justice to the farm workera of our country.'
Today's unions provide new protections for farm workera such aa
toilets In Ihe fields. Improved wages, protection from poisonous pesticides, health Insurance, Joh security, holidays wllh pay, credit
unions, medical clinics, legal services, educational programa, etc.
However, the proposition la weighted heavily against the farm
workers' progressive efforts for better working conditions.
Section 1150.400 would strip most farm workera of th* right to vol*
by providing that any election must he held at a tlm* when 'the number of temporary agricultural employeea entitled to vote doea not exceed Ihe number of permanent agricultural employeea.*
clearly understood thai Proposition 22 does not seek an equal
n Proposition 22.
While it
it to.LI
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