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Aenean finibus sapien non neque venenatis rhoncus.\u201d<\/p><p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_row column_structure=\"1_3,2_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" custom_padding=\"12px|||||\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_font=\"Montserrat|500||on|||||\" text_font_size=\"22px\" text_line_height=\"1.6em\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]<\/p><p>U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor Hearings, 1966<\/p><p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_font_size=\"20px\" text_line_height=\"1.6em\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]<\/p><p>In mid-March 1966, the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor, chaired by Democratic Senator Harrison Williams Jr. of New Jersey, held hearings in three California agricultural areas, including Delano, the headquarters of Cesar Chavez\u2019s union. 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In 1959, he introduced legislation seeking to clean up a system that allowed unscrupulous labor contractors to exploit workers. Although the bills he introduced had not garnered enough support in Congress, Williams continued to press the issue. With news of the strike actions in California, Williams decided to take the committee on the road to gather firsthand, on-site testimony.<\/p><p>The committee hearings began in Sacramento on March 14, moved to Visalia the following day, and then, on March 16, to Delano and ground zero for the union\u2019s dramatic grape strike.<\/p><p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" background_color=\"#D22030\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_row column_structure=\"2_5,3_5\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" background_color=\"#D22030\" width=\"100%\" max_width=\"100%\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_column type=\"2_5\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_image src=\"http:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/event_committee_speaker_img.png\" title_text=\"event_committee_speaker_img\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"3_5\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_text_color=\"#FFFFFF\" text_line_height=\"1.6em\" header_4_text_color=\"#FFFFFF\" module_alignment=\"center\" custom_margin=\"15vh||||false|false\" custom_padding=\"|10vh||5vh|false|false\" hover_enabled=\"0\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" sticky_enabled=\"0\"]<\/p><h4><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><strong>IMAGE <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><strong>DESCRIPTION<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h4><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean finibus sapien non neque venenatis rhoncus. Cras dictum lectus aliquet lacus posuere fringilla. Phasellus accumsan tristique felis, a maximus tortor porttitor eget.<\/p><p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_row column_structure=\"2_3,1_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" custom_margin=\"auto||auto||true|false\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_font_size=\"20px\" text_line_height=\"1.6em\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]<\/p><p>Chavez testified at the first hearing in Sacramento. He briefly recounted the history of the farm labor camps in California, the federal investigations headed by Senator Robert LaFollette three decades earlier that had exposed extensive abuses, and the fact that many of the labor camps that were still being used in the 1960s were the same ones exposed during those hearings and continued the same unconscionable treatment of farm workers\u2014the same child labor, the same notion that somehow farm workers were a different breed of people more able to withstand physical hardship and remain happy, and the same kind of justifications used by slaveholders generations before.<\/p><p>Rev. Wayne Hartmire of the California Migrant Ministry and Bishop Hugh Donohoe, representing the Catholic Bishops of California, added a religious perspective to the farm workers struggles. Hartmire referred to the farm workers movement as a righteous struggle. \u201cAs Christians,\u201d he said, \u201cwe cannot assume a position of non-involvement or neutrality in the presence of social injustice which reduces the dignity and well-being of any of God\u2019s children\u201d (\u201cStatement of the California Church Council\u201d 1966).<\/p><p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" background_image=\"http:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/event_committee_protest_img.png\" background_position=\"bottom_center\" min_height=\"70vh\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_row column_structure=\"1_3,2_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_font_size=\"20px\" text_line_height=\"1.6em\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]<\/p><p>Bishop Donohoe referred to the \u201cPastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World\u201d that had been adopted a few months earlier at the Second Vatican Council. 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