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Chavez says politics distracts from field work with UFW campaign
Cesar Chavez says political struggle pulls him into a public role and away from laborers he represents as head of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. He campaigns against Proposition 22 in California to block secondary boycotts and strikes at harvest and plans to return to national union work after polls close.
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