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Labor Strike Turns Rio Grande City Into Focus for 1966 Drive
Long, tense clashes mark the United Farm Workers organizing drive in Rio Grande City and La Casita Farms as protesters press for a $1.25 wage. Arrests, injunctions, and bridge blocks frame a turbulent campaign spanning June to May 1967 with clashes at Roma bridge and railroad lines.
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Rio Grande
City
Tex
California
Start County
See- Grande City
Nelson
Laughlin
la Casis
Assita Farms
Missouri Pacific
la Casita
District
C. Wood
United Farm Workers
Jon Laughlin
Alice
United Farm Workers Union
Rio Grande City
Austin
inter+ national
Roma
Mexico
Bill Chandler
Tony Orendain
Roma Bridge
la Casita Farms
Gilbert Padilla
Union