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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. 1963
MEDKOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEUI OKD, OKEOO.V
eiiicGuu-AmericGini Coalition With Ldbor Wins Control
By PRESTON McCRAW
United Press International
CRYSTAL CITY, Tex. (UPI)
A Mexican American organ
ization has blended political edu
cation and the friendship of
James Hoffa's Teamsters un
ion to take over the government
of Crystal City and spread into
SO Texas counties. .
The group calls itself the Po
litical Association of bpamsrv
speaking Organizations (PASO)
PASO has the help of the Team.
sters' union though its leaders
deny the Teamsters have any
hand in the organization's direction.
The leaders of PASO have
their sights set on a coalition
with the National Association for
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, labor unions and ultra-lib
eral Democratic Anglo-Ameri
cans that would enable them to
control the Democratic party in
Texas and the state govern
ment.
1 Almost nobody outside PASO
had ever neard oi ine organiza
tion last April when it put a
dun . man all.I.atin citv gov
ernment into office in Crystal
City, which cans liscu ine -spinach
capital of the world."
An Anglo - American admin
istration had always controlled
Crystal City, as is the case with
nearly all of south Texas, despite
the region's heavy Mexican
American population.
Loses to Teamsters
Muvnr Rrnrp Hnlsomback. 65.
a banker, lost his unsalaried po
litical office to Juan tornejo,
33, the Crystal City representa
tive of the Teamsters union. The
other four new members of the
council also are of Mexican an
cestry. -
The council the Latins defeat
ed had three Anglo - Americans,
one Latin and a half Latin-half
Anglo on it. Crystal City's 9,500
residents are 85 per cent Latin,
14.5 per cent Anglo and .5 per
cent Negro. Negroes started at
tending public schools with An
glos and Latins in 1958.
There has been little or no
trouble in Crystal City. Nine
Texas Rangers were in the city
when the election was held,
nanitni- Cant. A. Y. Allee re
mains. The Anglos do not lute
their new government and the
new government does not like
AllAn'a nrttumm.
Dale Barker, editor and pub
lisher of the weekly Zavala
County Sentinel, sums up the
"anti" attitude toward we new
government as follows:
"We have no objection to ol
K,..k.Mo, nl Krmnish extrac
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tion. What we do object to is
outside interests coming in, di
recting things and putting pup
pets in ofllce.
"If they would Just let us
alone," Major Cornejo said, "we
would have someuiing reai nice
Albert Pcna Jr., 43, state
chairman of PASO, and Albert
Fuentes Jr., 33, state executive
secretary, believe a county gov
ernment which will recognize
the special interests of Latins
can be elected in Zavala county
(Crystal City) next year.
If PASO maintains its momen
tum, they expect to see simi
lar governments In cities and
towns all along the Mexico-Texas
border and PASO, with the
help of the NAACP, exerting
a powerful. If not controlling,
force In statewide Democratic
politics.
Pena and Fuentes both live
in San Antonio, which is 120
miw nArthpast of Crvstal City.
Pcna is a county commissioner
and lawyer and Fuentes has a
business which he calls the
"State Government Research
Bureau."
PAKn I: an mitcrowth of the
Viva Kennedy clubs, which
Pena organized in Texas for the
Kennedys In I960. He organized
the clubs with the proviso that
they be recognized for their ef
fort and that they report direct
ly to the Kennedys, bypassing
Tuvni rinmnrratin leaders.
President K e n n e dy carried
Texas by 46,233 votes. Fcna
thinks the Viva Kennedy clubs
Welfare Check
Cashing Challenged
GRESHAM (UP) - A local
attorney said today he believes
"a lot of welfare chocks have
been cashed at the dog and
horse races."
Attorney A. W. (Al) Gustaf
son snici he plans to ask the
Stale Supreme Court to order
the Welfare Department audi
tor to show him canceled wcl
fare checks.
Gustafson is chairman of the
Multnomah County Intermediate
Education District and attorney
for Grcsham High school and
Parkro.se school districts.
He said his campaign for per
mission to study endorsements
on the checks was "Just as a
citizen" and bad no connection
with his education posts.
Gustafson said he had been
refused permission to look at
canceled checks last week, te
tag told they were not t matter
of public record. He said he
then decided to go to the high
court.
may well have provided the
margin.
Kennedy Says Thanks
In any event, Kennedy tele
graphed Pcna his thanks. Ken
n e d y subsequently appointed
Reynaldo Garza as a U.S. Dis
tinct Judge, Raymond Telles of
El Paso as Ambassador to Costa
Rica and Homer Lopez as an
assistant U.S. attorney in south
Texas.
In February, 1961, Viva Ken
nedy leaders joined the Mexi
can American political action
group. They subsequently re
named the Texas organization
PASO.
Moiscs Falcon of Crystal City
went ot Pcna in October, 1962,
and asked for help in Crystal
City. PASO leaders held politi
cal education classes in Crystal
City and explained election laws
to Latins.
They made sure Latins reg
istered and paid their poll taxes
and that they voted. The great
majority of Latins in Crystal
City are poorly educated labor
ers. The Teamsters union is the
bargaining agent for about 300
workers at the California Pack
ing Corp.'s (Del Monte) plant
in Crystal City. According to
Pcna and Fuentes, these work
ers provided the nuleus of the
Latin victory.
Often Lose Jobs
Pena and Fuentes complain
that Latins who step out of line
in south Texas frequently find
themselves without jobs. The
cannery workers, under a con
tract signed with an outside
firm, did not fear retribution.
Ray Shafer, business manager
of the Teamsters union in south
Texas, is frequently quoted
about PASO. The union's mem
bership in south Texas runs
heavily to cannery workers.
Shafer is a member of PASO
and he said he works for the
organization, when asked, as a
member. The Teamsters union
participates through its political
arm Democrat - Republican
Independent Voters Education
(DRIVE).
According to ' Shafer, PASO
and DRIVE do not always agree
on candidates, as was the case
in the last gubernatorial elec
tion in Texas. Shafer said the
Teamsters do not contribute fi
nancially as a union to PASO;
the law forbids it. ."
Mayor Cornejo, whom the
Anglos of Crystal City call
"Corney-Joe," . said no ' Anulus
would run on his ticked, there
was a heavy resignation of An-1
glos at city hall after the elec
tion and only two Anglos have
applied for city jobs since April.
Deny Accusation
?ena and Fuentes deny they)
are interested in electing all-
Latin governments. They said
rAaU will support a candidate
of any race, as Ions as PASO
is sure he will recognize special
Latin interests and problems.
Mexican - Americans in Tex
as and , other southwestern
states are worse off than Ne
groes, Fuentes thinks. Negroes
can demonstrate and go to court
to win their rights. '
Mexican - Americans: on' the
other hand, lack a solid cause.
They are not segregated. They
can go anywhere but every
where they Iind themselves tol
erated, not accepted.
Privately, PASO's leaders ad
mit that desire for acceptance
plays a large part in their cam
paign for improved .economic
conditions and political equality
for the Latin.
According to PASO figures,
there are more than 900,000 Lat
ins and 850.000 Negroes of vot
ing age in Texas. If these votes
were channeled the way Latin I ins and Negroes could control
votes were in Crystal City, Lat-lthe government of Texas.
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