Word: chavez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Farm Workers (UFW), led by Cesar Chavez, has called for a nationwide boycott of all non-union lettuce. The UFW is the same group that organized the recent grape boycott...
...controversy began last summer. The grape boycott had just ended with most grape growers signing contracts with Chavez's group, and lettuce growers in Salinas foresaw that their workers, suffering conditions similar to those the grape workers had fought, would soon begin a similar attempt at organizing...
David P. Levin '71 and John H. Petrey '71, members of an ad hoc student group supporting Cesar Chavez' United Farm workers Organizing Committee, presented the petition to Harvard food purchasing agents yesterday...
...present United Farm Workers' strike is a result of the refusal of certain strawberry and lettuce growers (almost all except United Fruit) to recognize the farm workers' union, headed by Caesar Chavez. This week 21 farm workers are coming to Boston to continue the boycott of S. S. Pierce products and to help organize a boycott of all non-union lettuce coming from the Southwest, Ryan said...
...Chavez and the farm workers hope that the lettuce boycott can be as successful in convincing lettuce and strawberry growers to negotiate with the United Farm Workers Union as the grape strike was last year...