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...just a single stick of dynamite tossed through a window of the Midway Elementary School on Campbells Creek Road at 3:30 one morning last week, and it caused only about $1,500 worth of damage. But the explosion, plus a renewed school boycott and a desperate trip to Washington by a fundamentalist delegation, all served notice that the textbook trouble in Kanawha County, W. Va., will be around for some time...
...DOESN'T TAKE a mountain of statistics to decide whether or not to support the UFW boycott against grapes, lettuce, Gallo wine, and Harvard Provision. All it takes is a little reason...
...consider the unusual coalition of powerful forces the UFW faces, it becomes easier to understand why it needs to resort to a secondary boycott. The way the Teamsters, Gallo and their local distributors mobilize lawyers and ad-men to fight the UFW, and the amount they are willing to spend, gives even the uninformed some idea of how much is at stake for them...
...workers. They are the ones who have borne the brunt of this dispute; they deserve the best from the country which has literally feasted on the fruits of their labor. Unfortunately, in the current dispute, the workers and the UFW have no leverage with the growers except through a boycott of their products. That any boycott of stores carrying Gallo wines hurts not just Gallo but also small store-owners is unfortunate, but until and unless the heads of major corporations are willing to talk seriously with the UFW, a boycott is the only effective way to resist them. Stores...
...boycott doesn't give them a choice, it chooses for them. Those who support the boycott will be choosing the UFW and forcing farmworkers into that union. Support for the boycott means that growers will be unable to sell their crops and be forced to sign with the UFW, whether the workers like it or not. We don't need to know of the massive evidence that Chavez and the UFW has hurt the workers. All we need to know is that workers should have their free choice. But if we support the boycott, we will be making the choice...