Word: cesar
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Goon Squads. In addition, the Teamsters in their organizing campaigns can call on muscle. Sometimes it is physical. The union has never lost the aura of violence. During the struggle between the Teamsters and Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers of America in California, Teamster goon squads wielding baseball bats and chains have waded into U.F.W.A. workers, and in 1973 a U.F.W.A. picket was killed by shots from a passing...
...star. At 17 she was made one of the youngest members in France's oldest acting ensemble, the Comédie Française. In her first season, she played Agnes in The School for Wives. When Jean-Loup Dabadie, one of France's leading screenwriters (Cesar and Rosalie) saw her in 1973, he wrote a comedy of the generation gap, La Gifle (A Slap in the Face) for her. When it opened last fall in Paris, Isabelle as a teen-age scamp stole the show from Co-Stars Annie Girardot and Lino Ventura...
Matthiessen calls himself "too freaky" to go into politics. But he is deeply committed to the subject of his only political book-on United Farm Workers Leader Cesar Chavez. Matthiessen regards Chavez as "the perhaps single leader worthy of the name in the whole country," and he sometimes performs small chores for the farm workers. These days, he spends most of his time at his home far out on Long Island, writing in the mornings and playing with Alexander, 10, the youngest of his four children, most afternoons. Matthiessen expresses mild disappointment that his nonfiction books are better known than...
...difficulties go back to 1962, when Cesar Chavez, the union leader, started organizing farm workers; his grape boycott compelled many California growers to bargain with his United Farm Workers. Only a few years after Chavez had won that victory, however, the Teamsters Union moved into the California fields, using greater resources and occasionally bullyboy harassment. Often without the approval of their employees, many of the growers who had signed with Chavez jumped over to the Teamsters; that union seemed to offer them less trouble. At the same time, many workers also turned to the Teamsters, who ran a more efficient...
...Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farmworkers Union, said at the Boston premier of the UFW film "Fighting For Our Lives" last night, that the Farmworkers would emerge victorious from their strike against the Gallo Wine...