Word: chavez
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Last week four House masters announced that they were joining a boycott against Harvard Provision Co., a liquor store in the Square. The store has committed the crime of offering Gallo wine to its customers even though Cesar Chavez and his United Farm Workers Union (UFW) has called for a boycott of the product. Harvard Pro is the major liquor supplier for House masters and Yard proctors, and the four masters made the decision after two weeks of picketing and petition drives against Harvard Pro by student groups...
...many years, Cesar Chavez has asked consumers to boycott grapes and lettuce, and more recently Gallo wine, to help farmworkers unionize. Harvard students and much of the entire Boston community have always given substantial support to the boycott effort. The success of the drive against Harvard Pro is yet another example of this support...
...activity in the area has by no means ceased however. It has now shifted its emphasis to stopping sales of Gallo wine. Seven major liquor store chains in the area have agreed to UFW demands; the UFW is now negotiating with an eighth, Cappy's. Cesar Chavez, in Boston for a weekend in early August, marked the beginning of the new campaign by appearing at a UFW demonstration on August 3 in front of the Avenue Liquor Mart store at the Fresh Pond Shopping Center...
Boycott Gallo Wines: Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farm Workers, is coming to Cambridge to help put a full-scale Boston-area boycott of Gallo products into high gear. The UFW leader, who has guided a long battle to win the rights of California farm workers, will take part in a demonstration Saturday at 1:30 p.m. by the Fresh Pond Shopping Center. Last year Gallo signed a sweetheart contract with the Teamsters in an effort to escape facing a struggle with the UFW over workers' rights, but the tactic hasn't been very successful. The Gallo boycott...
James J. Norton, international representative for the GAIU, said last night that he has not heard of any plans by Chavez to visit the printers' picket line in Forbes Plaza...