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Harvard Square wine merchants said yesterday they will not increase their stock of Gallo wine despite an announcement Tuesday by Cesar Chavez that the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) has ended its boycott against Gallo wine, lettuce, and table grapes...
Chavez lifted the boycott in "a spirit of cautious optimism," Irving Hirshenbaum, the Cambridge organizer of the UFW, said yesterday...
...boycott was an effective way to make growers allow workers to vote for their representation in labor disputes," Hirschenbaum said. The UFW believes the courts, rather than the tactic of boycotting, can now insure labor rights because of previously established precedents...
...boycott has given us great leverage--the leverage of moral protest--and has prevented the University from silently closing and dressing the last wounds of 1969, the wounds that are a constant reminder of this University's narrow viewed and its recent resort to bold brutality...
...indeed, however, the "new, improved" CRR will dispense justice, then we must of course welcome it warmly, for justice is our ultimate goal. But we must be absolutely sure that this is the case before ending the boycott. I do not believe the case has yet been made to the Harvard community...