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...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 then, the UFW boycott against non-union grapes and lettuce and against Gallo wines will and should remain in effect...
MOZAMBIQUE'S MAIN problem will be its economic involvement with South Africa and Rhodesia, whom Machel has promised to boycott if they do not end their apartheid policies. South Africa is Mozambique's largest trading partner, providing 20 per cent of Mozambique's imports, and the 86,000 Mozambique laborers who work in the South African mines send home nearly $2.4 billion a year in wages--equal to a quarter the value of Mozambique's entire manufacturing output. It will be difficult, if not impossible, for the newly independent country, which inherited a trade deficit of over $165 million from...
Nonetheless, Frelimo seems to be willing to cut these ties to Mozambique's neighbors if they continue their policies of racial oppression. Although it will mean a loss of foreign currency, Mozambique's delegate to the United Nations pledged "a complete and total boycott" of Rhodesia in September, two days before Machel issued a joint statement with Tanzania's Nyerere, condemning apartheid and promising support for black nationalists in South Africa. Mozambique is determined to avoid becoming a South African satellite, despite its apparent economic dependence...
Barber said he knows no reason to pay a city councilor $150 a night to discuss a United Farm Workers boycott when "Cambridge has so many goddamn problems that need attending...
Corporations that submitted to the boycott earned $203 million worth of products in the first six months of 1975, an "enormous" increase since last year, Drinan said...