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...believe have been adequately replied to by supporters of the UFW. But most recently attacks against the union have come from another sources: the Gallo Corporation itself. The E&J Gallo Winery the largest wine producer in the United States has mounted an enormous advertising capaign to counteract the boycott of Gallo products launched by its striking workers in 1973. The facts that Gallo presents, without substantiation, distort or ignore a number of important points that we feel should be made clear...
Recently the United Farm Workers boycott campaign has generated a great deal of controversy. The Gallo distributors and liquor stores supporting Gallo insist that the farm workers struggle is a jurisdictional dispute between two unions and that liquor stores have nothing to do with it. It should be clear that more is at stake than a simple tight between unions. An examination of the political and economic factors involved in the unionization drive should clarity the role of the national boycott campaign in promoting a farm workers victory...
...cent of the Gallo workers went out on strike. The response of the corporation was to bring in strike-breakers, and to sign a "sweetheart" contract with the Teamsters after a single bargaining session. In September of 1973, Gallo workers met at UFW headquarters and decided to initiate the boycott of Gallo products...
...EMBARGOES: If a war takes place, anything is possible. The important thing is to prevent war. But Arabs did not invent this boycott weapon. How many years have you employed a boycott against Cuba? I'm not an advocate for Castro, but you have imposed this weapon on a very small country. I am not saying that with a war an oil boycott would be inevitable...
...didn't just sit over coffee at Adams House and identify with the proletariat by wearing work boots and a cloth cap. He worked almost every day of the past two years for people whom he'd never seen and never really knew. He helped lead the Boston area boycott of Farah so that clothing workers in Texas would be able to have a union, and not merely accept what Mister Farah wanted to give them; he picketed in the rain for the Harvard printers' union last spring, trying to remind the university that human beings create and run institutions...