, A. F.L.-C.I.O.’ Chavez repeatedly insisted on adherence nonviolent di: to cipline. The strike was supplemented by a nationwide consumers’ boycott first of all California grapes, Then, after the first union contract of nonunion grapes. In March 1966 the strikers mile pilgrimage conducted a 250 from Delano to the state capital at Sacramento to protest the s of pickets with insecticides and fertilizer and to publicize the boycott Evening rallies were held along the way. At each rally the union plan was read:
We are suffering …We shall unite... We shall strike…. We shall overcome …Our pilgrimage is the match that will light our cause for all farm workers to see what is happening here, so that they may do we have done. 33