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  • Marlon
  • Apr 2, 2015
Shortly after posting the review of Bernstein’s Bridges of Reform, I received an email from Herman Gallegos who complimented me for “continu[ing] to keep the flames alive so that important historical events are not forgotten or lost when many who were part of that history pass away.”Gallegos is an authoritative figure on all things CSO. Gallegos served as the first president of the San Jose CSO chapter in the early 1950s and as CSO’s state president in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This was the dynamic period when Cesar Chavez served as CSO’s executive director, and the group successfully lobbied the state legislature for non-citizen old age pensions, ran large scale voter registration drives, and organized around a myriad of local concerns.Gallegos made the following comments relative to CSO and anticommunism, one of the issues raised in Bernstein’s book:“During the height of the McCarthy era, McCarren-Walters [Immigration and Nationality Act], the Levering Act [California State Loyalty Oath], etc., and U. S. paranoia about communists, the CSO was aware of the pitfalls from being red baited and did indeed made every effort to enjoy the visible support from faith-based institutions. “Many suspected communist members or sympathizers would attend our meetings to share their ideas. Sam Kushner, with the [communist] Daily Worker, inevitably showed up at every CSO convention. He shared lots of useful information about what was going on politically, but I don't think he ever convinced anyone to join the party.“Most of the emerging CSO leaders like Cesar, Gil Padilla and myself were on the younger side, and perhaps more naive than older activists like the LA leadership: Tony Rios, Eliseo Carrillo, J.J. Rodriguez, and Maria Duran Lang.” Author’s note: Tony Rios, Eliseo Carrillo, J.J. Rodriguez, and Maria Duran Lang operated within the vibrant liberal left in Los Angeles. Their politics ranged from liberal to progressive to (non-CP) left. By point of reference, Phil Connelly, a communist, headed the Los Angeles CIO Council from 1939 to 1949. Tony Rios was an officer with the CIO United Steel Workers, J.J. Rodriquez headed the AFL Butchers union, Maria Duran Lang was a leader within the AFL International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU). Elisio Carrillo started the first ACLU chapter in East Los Angeles. The other important CSO leader from organized labor was Hope Mendoza. She was the ILGWU’s first Mexican American organizer and then business agent. She served as a member of CSO’s executive board and then in 1953 chaired CSO’s Labor Relations Committee as part of an effort to formalize ties to (and to raise funds from) the many unions in Los Angeles with Mexican American members. The ILGWU’s Jewish leaders, who had ties to the old Socialist Party and to newly founded Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), were actively engaged in reducing the influence of Communists within the garment union in Los Angeles.

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