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...July 10 the non-striking Gallo workers, including the new replacements, ratified a four-year Teamster contract by a vote of 158-1. The striking workers did not vote in the contract-ratification election and Cesar Chavez, head of the UFW, called the contract a "sweetheart deal" between the Teamsters and the winery. The UFW complained that the election had not been verified by a third-party, but Solomon said that it had not even been observed by Gallo. "It was a closed-door union meeting; management doesn't sit in on contract-ratification votes," Solomon says...
...just millions of kids in this country that are utterly destroyed before they have a chance. I think it's the most costly, unfair, outrageous thing that happens in America." To get a better feeling for the problems of the deprived, Mondale has marched with Cesar Chavez' United Farm Workers, visited Indians in the West and Eskimos in Alaska, and-with his wife -gone on a welfare diet for a week...
QUALIFIED support for Carter-Mondale and the Democrats seems in order, then, particularly if the Right's candidate is Reagan or if a race against Ford looks close come late October. The Democrats put Cezar Chavez up there, and I saw as many women as men on the platform and almost as many on the convention floor; there were also enough black people on hand so Madison Square Garden didn't resemble a Brigham Young University pep rally, like the Republicans in Kansas City undoubtedly will. The potential mass left-wing in America is with the Democrats now--the huge...
Staffers are weighing the risks of personal appearances in other primary states where Brown is on the ballot-Maryland, Kentucky, Nevada, New Jersey-while building a skeletal national organization from such bones as Cesar Chavez's far-flung boycott network and activist church groups. Brown is considering a nationwide tour, the better to disseminate his "lower our expectations" dicta, woo uncommitted delegates and influence the polls during the pregnant preconvention lull...
...What can I say? For me, and my family, it's not just a social problem--it's reality, it's life. I see the shacks, I see the labor camps, and then I see Chavez trying to do something about it. I think it's terrific," Guizar says...