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Ernest Rodriguez' "Impressions," 1960s-1980s

""The Year 1970"" by Ernest Rodriguez Page 4

heat up for a while and down when they felt too warm and thus none of us was completely satisfied as to person comfort. 
After a few minutes on the road the conversation lagged as usually happens on a road trip. My mind went back over the events that had lead up to the Board hearing we were heading for. 
It all started one rainy night when John Terronez and our wives went to a rally in support of the national grape boycott held in Clinton, Iowa. The rally was sponsored by organized by labor there and Father Bill O’Connor an old dedicated fighter for the labor movement was in charge of emceeing and introducing the speakers in the panel.
I, John, my wife Juanita, and his wife Florence played a supportive role to the main attraction who was Eliseo Medina, an organizer from Cesar Chavez California based United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. Eliseo was in Chicago and had been successfully organizing a grape boycott there. He had spoke at a meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Council of Churches held at our LULAC Club to win the support of these local churchmen and it was this same night that I and John had spoke at the Federation of Labor meeting to solicit their support for a local Grape Boycott Committee we had formed a few days prior to Eliseo’s appearance in Davenport. Father O’Connor aware of our boycotting activity in Davenport had invited us to the Clinton rally to help out and to meet Eliseo Medina not knowing we were already acquainted. 
I had met Eliseo soon after his appearance in Davenport at a Mid-West Strategy meet of Boycott organizers held at Colfax, Iowa where he played a key role in translator during the orientation session of the meeting.

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heat up for a while and down when they felt too warm and thus none of us was completely satisfied as to person comfort. After a few minutes on the road the conversation lagged as usually happens on a road trip. My mind went back over the events that had lead up to the Board hearing we were heading for. It all started one rainy night when John Terronez and our wives went to a rally in support of the national grape boycott held in Clinton, Iowa. The rally was sponsored by organized by labor there and Father Bill O’Connor an old dedicated fighter for the labor movement was in charge of emceeing and introducing the speakers in the panel. I, John, my wife Juanita, and his wife Florence played a supportive role to the main attraction who was Eliseo Medina, an organizer from Cesar Chavez California based United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. Eliseo was in Chicago and had been successfully organizing a grape boycott there. He had spoke at a meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Council of Churches held at our LULAC Club to win the support of these local churchmen and it was this same night that I and John had spoke at the Federation of Labor meeting to solicit their support for a local Grape Boycott Committee we had formed a few days prior to Eliseo’s appearance in Davenport. Father O’Connor aware of our boycotting activity in Davenport had invited us to the Clinton rally to help out and to meet Eliseo Medina not knowing we were already acquainted. I had met Eliseo soon after his appearance in Davenport at a Mid-West Strategy meet of Boycott organizers held at Colfax, Iowa where he played a key role in translator during the orientation session of the meeting.