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Local efforts to enforce the nation-wide United Farm Workers-sponsored boycott of Gallo wines escalated this week and, apparently in response, the targets of the boycott began to fight back...
...picketers, including members of the Radcliffe Harvard New American Movement, the Democratic Socialists Organizing Committee and the UFW, have been fairly successful in getting Gallo wines off the shelves in most other Square liquor stores and are urging a total boycott of the Provision Co. Until Gallo comes off the shelf there as well...
However the suit reads and whatever its success, the E & J Gallo Winery Co. has already begun to mobilize a nation-wide advertising campaign to refute the UFW claims, especially in Boston, New York and Toronto where the boycott has been most successful...
...DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE STATISTICS: It is very easy to play with numbers as Ferrara has proven. He uses numbers of a national survey to account for a problem which is Californian in nature: the boycott of scab grapes, Gallo wines and iceberg lettuce. According to the same source (U.S. Dept. of Ag.) there are well over 200,000 farm workers in California (1967, latest statistics available). Of these 1/3 are migrants. In 1968, the average hourly wage in California for a farm worker was $1.75 per hour. This included permanent and seasonal workers. BUT, farm workers in the table...
...Boycott Harvard Provision! Boycott Gallo! Boycott Grapes! Art Torres Fellow, Institute of Politics Assemblyman Elect...