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...week lettuce workers' strike in California against Sun Harvest Company threatens the existence of the United Farm Workers union (UFW), Cesar Chavez, president and founder of UFW, told a crowd of more than 500 people last night at the ARCO Forum of the Kennedy School of Government...

Author: By Edward C. Forst, | Title: Chavez Speaks on Lettuce Workers Strike; Farm Workers Want Chiquita Banana Boycott | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

...asked for a little more money and the employers responded with bullets," Chavez said after discussing the killing of a striking worker February 10. "The hunting season is on every time we hit the picket line," he added...

Author: By Edward C. Forst, | Title: Chavez Speaks on Lettuce Workers Strike; Farm Workers Want Chiquita Banana Boycott | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

...Chavez said the union has asked for a 32 per cent wage increase because the real wages of the workers have increased only 13 cents per hour since 1970. The employers rejected this proposal, and on January 19, the workers went on strike...

Author: By Edward C. Forst, | Title: Chavez Speaks on Lettuce Workers Strike; Farm Workers Want Chiquita Banana Boycott | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

...ANGELES--The party's over in Chavez Ravine (I think). The Dodgers are very good, but not great. The loss of Tommy John, Lee Lacy and Billy North will hurt more than most people think. And overrated shortstop Bill Russell costs this team a lot of games...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Big League Pennant Fights Open This Week | 4/3/1979 | See Source »

...play pecking baseball, although Jackson stretched his World Series home-run string to four straight games. His towering blast cleared the left-field fence, the Yankee bullpen, and nearly carried over the wall to the parking lot beyond-460 ft. to the last line of defense in Chavez Ravine. It was not enough. With Lopes driving in five runs, the Dodgers took the opener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Paths to Glory | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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