Chavezs dedicated advocacy for workers. As a young child. Cesar Chavez experienced the long hours. horrible wages and other deplorable conditions and discrimination faced by migrant farm workers. which emboldened him to fight for justice and fairness for all working people of this country. In 1962. Mr. Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association (now known as the United Farm Workers of America). through which he organized migrant workers in campaigns for safe and fair working conditions. reasonable wages. decent housing. and the elimination of child labor. His tireless leadership and use of nonviolent tactics. such as fasts. boycotts. strikes and pilgrimages. brought awareness to the conditions of farm workers and their struggle for better pay and safer working conditions. Mr. Chavez is credited for the passage of the groundbreaking 1975 Califomia Agriculture Labor Relations Act. which remains the only law in the Nation that protects farm and migrant workers rights to unionize. Madam Speaker. I came out of the labor movement as a lining cutter at Seaford Clothing factory in Rock Island.