Word: chavez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot in clear conscience continue reading the pro-UFW rebuttals directed at Peter Ferrara's article entitled "Has Chavez Fooled Harvard" without making a stand supporting his article. I was very pleased to see his article and equally perturbed to read all of the attacks against it--with each different reply coming up with their own figures supporting their own beliefs...
Peter Ferrara has the distinction of being the first Crimson contributor whose work ("Is Chavez Fooling Harvard,"Crimson, Oct. 21) is hanging in the Chelsea market. By the time he gets his grapeskin he may make the Fulton market: if he had his way, there's still be scab products around a couple of years from...
...WORK OF E. & J. Gallo Winery's venomous little ol' parable writer appears once again in today's Crimson. In a large advertisement on page eight of this issue, the Brothers Gallo take credit for forming the United Farmworkers' union, for bringing Cesar Chavez to power, and for defending both in the face of opposition from other grape growers--a tale many might regard as at least as fanciful as they style in which it is written...
...advertisement, headlined "Follow the Leader," also purports to chronicle Chavez's fall from power in the eyes of the workers, a decline that Gallo would like to attribute to the excellent pay and benefits it offers its workers and Chavez's overindulgence in the Washington cocktail circuit...
Were The Crimson to determine the acceptability of advertisements by its editorial policy, there is little doubt that neither this missive from Gallo nor the two Gallo advertisements that preceded it would not have appeared. Editorially, this newspaper has for many years supported the efforts of Chavez and the UFW to give the farm-workers some determination over their lives and their work...