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...CESAR CHAVEZ and the United Farm Workers Union are among the most recognizable symbols of organized labor in the United States. Since the mid-'60s, Chavez has led a mostly uphill fight against growers and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters for the rights of migrant agricultural laborers. That movement, which has met varying degrees of success, appears to be over for the time being, following Chavez's announcement two weeks ago of the end of the decade-old boycott of non-union lettuce, grapes and table wines. To millions of UFW sympathizers, the announcement came as a surprise, since there...
...philosophy as Carter's "Government cannot...Government cannot...?" When Brown talks about the failure of the Great Society social programs of the '60s, does he believe, as does Carter, that "Government cannot eliminate poverty...or save the cities...or cure illiteracy?" Does the man who once marched with Cesar Chavez and worked diligently for Eugene McCarthy in 1968 accept our modern-day Grover Cleveland's negativist beliefs on these issues...
Harvard Square wine merchants said yesterday they will not increase their stock of Gallo wine despite an announcement Tuesday by Cesar Chavez that the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) has ended its boycott against Gallo wine, lettuce, and table grapes...
...Chavez lifted the boycott in "a spirit of cautious optimism," Irving Hirshenbaum, the Cambridge organizer of the UFW, said yesterday...
Ross first met Chavez in San Jose in 1952, he said. The two worked together in the Community Service Organization until Chavez left in 1962 to devote all his time to organizing Chicano farm workers...