<P> TJ worked for UFOC for about 2 years and his responsibilities included organizing the Grape Boycott in San Antonio . His primary target was the H-E-B grocery store chain . In addition, he attempted to organize Hispanic farm workers working the farmers market in San Antonio--an institution at that time controlled by the corporate farms . Among his many organizing activities included an early 1972 episode where he and several other UFOC staff members who were attempting to organize warehouse workers in San Antonio were fired upon by security agents of the corporate farm owners . </P> <P> In mid-1973 the San Antonio office of the UFOC was taken over by the Brown Berets . This radicalization of the San Antonio UFOC office led to the eventual collapse of the San Antonio UFOC organizing campaign . </P> <P> In 1970, Chavez decided to move the union's headquarters from Delano to La Paz, California into a former sanatorium in the Tehachapi Mountains . Whereas Chavez thought this change would aid the creation of "a national union of the poor...serving the needs of all who suffer," other union members objected to this distancing of the leadership away from the farmworkers . </P> <P> The union was poised to launch its next major campaign in the lettuce fields in 1970 when a deal between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the growers nearly destroyed it . Initially the Teamsters signed contracts with lettuce growers in the Salinas Valley, who wanted to avoid recognizing the UFW . Then in 1973, when the three - year UFW grape contracts expired, the grape growers signed contracts giving the Teamsters the right to represent the workers who had been members of the UFW . </P>

Who worked with government in the 1960s to get laws passed to help noncitizens and farm workers