For over a century, migrant farm workers have been opposed a suitable and equitable life in the fields and communities of California's agricultural valleys. Most farmers were making only ninety cents an hour, forced to drink out of the same cup, and required to pay two dollars or more per day to live in metal shacks with no plumbing or electricity in the 1960’s. Overall, farm workers, also known as braceros, labored in inhumane conditions as growers ignored the state laws regarding proper working conditions. The Bracero Program was started by the U.S. government after WWII due to labor shortages and “this program imported temporary laborers from Mexico to work in the fields”(NFWM-YAYA Staff). However, change and improvement were greatly sought.
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His family was rather poor and inhabited a small adobe home (United Farm Workers). As a young boy during the 1930’s he saw many people lose their jobs and homes, and had to “basically walk around the country in order to find a new job” (Chavez). When Chavez was ten, due to the drought in the southwest, his parents were forced to become migrant farm workers (Chavez). After his parents became migrant farm workers Chavez had attended over "thirty different schools and was only able to obtain up to a seventh grade education" (Chavez). Due to all of these cruel and exhausting experiences, Chavez established a movement known as the Farm Workers Movement that eventually became very …show more content…
In his speech, Chavez speaks about the potential well-being and outcome of farm workers if no one takes a stand. Chavez introduces George Deukmejian, a republican governor, who was paid one million dollars to run for governor of California. Since Deukmejian took office, he began to pay back each of his debts to the growers with the blood and sweat of farm workers. With Deukmejian in office, he did not enforce the law as it was written against those who broke it. Instead, he invited growers who broke the law to seek relief from the government. Chavez explains that with these laws not being
His family was rather poor and inhabited a small adobe home (United Farm Workers). As a young boy during the 1930’s he saw many people lose their jobs and homes, and had to “basically walk around the country in order to find a new job” (Chavez). When Chavez was ten, due to the drought in the southwest, his parents were forced to become migrant farm workers (Chavez). After his parents became migrant farm workers Chavez had attended over "thirty different schools and was only able to obtain up to a seventh grade education" (Chavez). Due to all of these cruel and exhausting experiences, Chavez established a movement known as the Farm Workers Movement that eventually became very …show more content…
In his speech, Chavez speaks about the potential well-being and outcome of farm workers if no one takes a stand. Chavez introduces George Deukmejian, a republican governor, who was paid one million dollars to run for governor of California. Since Deukmejian took office, he began to pay back each of his debts to the growers with the blood and sweat of farm workers. With Deukmejian in office, he did not enforce the law as it was written against those who broke it. Instead, he invited growers who broke the law to seek relief from the government. Chavez explains that with these laws not being