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Harvard's soccer team yesterday elected juniors Dave Acorn and Lyman Bullard as 1976 co-captains. Acorn, this year's high scorer, and Bullard, last year's scoring leader, were the two top vote-getters in a secret ballot vote conducted by the players and the team manager...
Shabby Scandals. "Ultimately, the election will be decided by the 10% of the voters, mostly of the middle class, who swing from party to party," reported TIME Correspondent John Dunn. "It is doubtful if the sympathy they today feel for Whitlam will last the month until they reach the ballot box. By then, they are more likely to be influenced by the problems of the economy and recollection of the shabby scandals. Thus Eraser's coalition may just retain the government that came its way so surprisingly this week...
Prior to the elections Chavez predicted that farmworkers given a choice would vote 95 per cent in favor of the UFW. But the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (CALRB), the agency in charge of the voting, reports that in elections with both unions on the ballot the Teamsters have won 59 contests covering about 10,500 workers and the UFW has won 46 covering about 6000 workers. Including elections where only one union and the no union alternatives were on the ballot, the Teamsters have 96 wins covering about 12,000 workers and the UFW has 154 covering about...
...will represent the state's 250,000 agricultural workers, it is important to remember that the struggle to gain fair representation for those workers is not over. The California Labor Relations Act, effective August 28, guarantees agricultural workers for the first time the right to decide through free, secret-ballot elections whether they will be represented by the United Farm Workers, the Teamsters, or no union at all. But the law is no guarantee of a speedy and just resolution to that bitter conflict. The votes still need to be certified, and the contracts still need to be signed. Until...
State-wide equal rights amendments have been adopted in 15 states. A Massachusetts ERA is slated for the November 1976 ballot...