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On this Cesar Chavez day, let us remember Juan De La Cruz [1]
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Date: 2025-03-31
Juan De La Cruz, 60, was an early recruit into Cesar Chavez’s farm worker union during the 1960s. On August 17, 1973 he was murdered by a strikebreaker driving by the picket line in a pickup truck only two days after Yemeni immigrant Nagi Daifallah, 24, a leader among Arab workers on strike that summer, was clubbed to death by a Kern County sheriff’s deputy on the streets of the small farm town of Lamont. Juan became the UFW’s third martyr, men and women who gave their lives during union strikes. The first was a young Jewish woman, Nan Freeman, who was killed supporting striking sugar cane workers on a UFW picket line in Florida in 1972.
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