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...students vote to get rid of the boycott, there will be newspaper stories in California about how Harvard students have turned their back on farm workers," Ganz said. "Then the growers will translate them into Spanish, they'll turn them into leaflets and they'll pass them out on all the farms where the union is trying to organize as evidence that the union has no support...
...other hand, if there were stories saying Harvard students upheld the boycott, the union will turn that into leaflets and say 'We're not alone, people support us,'" Ganz said...
Cesar Chavez organizes a major strike against California grape producers to combat poor working conditions and low wages for the field workers. When the walkout appears headed for failure, he calls for a boycott of all California table grapes. Colleges throughout the country join in the boycott...
...Boycott pressure forces about 200 table grape growers to sign three-year contracts with the United Farm Workers (UFW), Chavez' labor union. The contracts ensure decent wages, medical care, a pension plan, fresh drinking water and clean toilets in the fields...
...growers get Teamsters thugs to rough-up the striking workers. About 3,000 arrests, 400 beatings and 44 shootings occur, according to Marshal Ganz '66-'92, an instructor at the Kennedy School of Government and a former officer of the UFW. Chavez ends the strike and calls for a boycott...