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Cesar Chavez, director of the United Farm Workers union, arrived in Boston early this morning to take part in a drive to enlist support for the UFW's boycott of non-union California lettuce and table grapes...
...called the strike and boycott after all but two California grape growers failed to renew their UFW contracts last month. Nearly all of the growers have since signed labor contracts with the Teamsters Union...
Nick Jones, an official of the Boston office of the UFW, told last night's meeting that the boycott, coordinated with the California strike, will force the growers to deal with...
...Growers understand sales. The memory of the last great boycott is their recurring nightmare. If the grocers find their customers turning away, the Delano and Fresno growers won't be so fast to conspire with the Teamsters when their UFW contracts expire. To be stuck with a worthless crop is a fate even worse then negotiating with a worker-controlled union...
Once M ore W ith Feeling: All people of goodwill can support the farm workers in their non-violent resistance to the Neanderthallic conditions imposed on them by the Grower-Teamster consortium, by 1) Boycott table grapes, starting now! 2) Contribute money to help feed the workers who now will miss the few months when they can earn any wages. The money you send will be used for basics: food, clothing, medicine. Their need is staggering. 3) Continue to boycott iceberg lettuce and A & P Stores...