Millions of farmworkers were excluded from the legal right to form a union. Cesar Chavez, third from the right, among tens of thousands of farm workers participating in the United Farm Workers Thousand Mile March during the summer of 1975. Yet another chapter was written in the agonizing history of failed attempts to organize farmworkers into a union. The Community OrganizerIn 1962, when Cesar Chavez arrived in Delano to begin his crusade to organize farmworkers, he came with a plan. Cesar Chavez, second from the left, John Giumarra Sr., right, representing 26 of California’s largest table grape growers, exchange pens to sign a contract with the UFW.