Mr. Robert Cuellar, Los Angeles, California: an interview by Greg Coronado, December 27, 1972; Mr. Robert Cuellar, Westchester, California: an interview by Greg Coronado, December 26, 1972

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-. IlTERVIEW: Cuellar ' Page 25 before, the criteria was probably where the largest population concentrated. The other ones that were opened up, well it de reloped that way for two or three years. There were the ten that we opened up in '71. We developed somewhat of a criteria for the selection of those cities by the way providing assistance, accepted by the national board of directors and accepted by the Department of Labor. But the criteria included population density, it included the needs of the people there. In other words, the unemployment rates, the poverty status of the people, tne number of family below certain income level. Also very importantly, the chances for a manpower program to succeed, that is, how many resources for employment are there. If there's no employment avail­ability there, it is very difficult to make a manpow€r program successful. So those factors are included in the criteria and it was the first time that we actually selected cities for expansion on those basis. There are other factors that I think, that are, that carry less of an influence but are nevertheless important: organiza ­tional strength. If a community is not organized it is very difficult to get a city there because they usually don't want it anyway, then they throw you out. But a well organized, you can bet that they are going to do everything in their power to make it succeed so that's one of the factors. GC I am beginning to get a little bit confused. You speak of the