United Farm Workers

The United Farm Workers is identified in the book through its connection with Cesar Chavez and strikes: Dorothy Day demonstrated with the organization and was arrested. This brief account places the group within Day’s record of direct social activism, but does not describe its structure, campaigns, or wider history.

Organization and Labor Context

The book names the United Farm Workers in connection with Cesar Chavez and strike demonstrations. Elsewhere, it describes labor issues among the subjects covered by The Catholic Worker, the newspaper Day helped establish with Peter Maurin. That broader attention to workers provides context for the organization’s appearance, though the account does not state that the newspaper’s coverage concerned the United Farm Workers specifically.

Day’s Demonstrations and Arrest

Day continued to be jailed at times for protest activity. The book records that she was arrested while demonstrating with Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers during strikes. It gives no further details about the particular strike, the demonstration, or the circumstances of the arrest.

Place in Day’s Activism

The United Farm Workers episode is one instance in a wider account of Day’s public action. The book also describes her work with Maurin on a newspaper addressing social issues and their effort to establish hospitality for poor people. It presents their movement as committed to social change through pacifist means; the account does not specify how that principle related to Day’s participation in the United Farm Workers demonstrations.