Chavez was an effective leader for three main reasons: grassroots organizer and believer in equal treatment, self- sacrifice, and tough tactics. According to Ann McGregor’s book The Legacy Cesar Chavez, published in 2000 Dick Meister was highly skeptical about Chavez’s plan because of all the times people tried to organize the farm workers. According to Ann McGregor’s book The Legacy Cesar Chavez, published in 2000 Dick Meister stated” Some of these groups were the socialists, the AFL and CIO organizers- all their efforts had collapsed under relentless pressure of growers and their powerful political allies.” All Chavez said was “Si se puede-it can be done!” According to Ann McGregor’s book The Legacy Cesar Chavez, published in 2000 Dick Meister said “Chavez grasped the essential fact that the farm workers had to organize themselves.” But, outside organizers, however well intentioned, could not do what Chavez was trying to do.
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Bob Maxwell and his wife Liz. when they were given a room in an old tuberculosis hospital that was trashed with beer cans and graffiti on the walls. Cesar was paying his staffers less than the minimum wage in America. He was giving his staff $7.50 a week for food and $5.00 for other expenses. Cesar stated” He was concerned that the administrative people not withdraw into an ivory tower…Every person was pressured to take his place on the picket line when the union was on strike.” Cesar thinks “That it is not right that the representatives of the poor are better than those for whom they labor.”
Bob Maxwell and his wife Liz. when they were given a room in an old tuberculosis hospital that was trashed with beer cans and graffiti on the walls. Cesar was paying his staffers less than the minimum wage in America. He was giving his staff $7.50 a week for food and $5.00 for other expenses. Cesar stated” He was concerned that the administrative people not withdraw into an ivory tower…Every person was pressured to take his place on the picket line when the union was on strike.” Cesar thinks “That it is not right that the representatives of the poor are better than those for whom they labor.”