S.F. Chronicle Labor Editor Dick Meister (center) with Chron Reporters / 1967
Note from the Publisher
In addition to this “Dick Meister Archive” presented here as part of the 50th Anniversary Project – and mostly all written after the death of Cesar Chavez in 1993 – the Farmworker Movement Documentation Project has compiled all of Dick Meister’s farmworker movement-related writing between 1965 and 2009 and it may be found in the “Dick Meister Labor Writer Archive”
A recently uncovered Dick Meister interview with Cesar Chavez (September 26, 1972) may be found at the close of this chapter underneath the radio commentary photo of Dick Meister.
Dick Meister Archive
Farm Worker Columns / 2001-2012
SI SE PUEDE
A collection of columns, articles and radio scripts on farm labor by Dick Meister, former Labor Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom. Co-author of “A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to Unionize America’s Farm Workers” (Macmillan 1977).
THE BITTER HARVEST IN WINE COUNTRY
AGRIBUSINESS’ NAKED, GREEDY GRAB
FARMWORKERS NEED MORE THAN A HOLIDAY
NO WATER, NO TOILET, NO ELECTRICITY
AN HONEST DAY’S PAY FOR FARMWORKERS
A RARE, UNHERALDED CHAMPION OF AMERICAN WORKERS
THE UFW’S MARCH FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE
HEEDING THE LESSONS OF CESAR CHAVEZ
A CHANCE TO END BARBARITY ON THE FARM
FARM WORKERS AGAINST GOLIATH – AGAIN
FARM WORKERS NEED FEDERAL HELP NOW
DON’T BITE THE HANDS THAT FEED US
CESAR CHAVEZ – A NATIONAL HERO
A TRAILBLAZING ORGANIZERS’ ORGANIZER
NEW TARGETS FOR TOMATO PICKERS
SI SE PUEDE – THE LEGACY OF CESAR CHAVEZ
THE INVALUABLE LEGACY OF WILLARD WIRTZ
FARM WORKERS NEED MORE PAY, LESS WORK
JACK HALL – ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FENCE
FARM WORKERS NEED DRASTIC CHANGE
AN UNSUNG CHAMPION OF FARM LABOR
VIVA EL BOICOTTEODON’T BE A MARSHMALLOW!
THE FARM WORKERS’ FILIPINO AMERICAN CHAMPION
1968 - San Francisco Labor Writer Dick Meister (left)
Labor Writer Dick Meister Presenting Radio Commentary
INTERVIEW OF CESAR CHAVEZ BY DICK MEISTER / SEPTEMBER 26, 1972