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...Chavez told the Government Center gathering that Gallo--which produces 40 per cent of California wine and recently signed a contract with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters--is "in trouble" because of the UFW-organized boycott of liquor stores selling its wines. He said Gallo has had to cut back from three daily working shifts to two since the boycott began...
Over 2000 supporters of the United Farm Workers (UFW) rallied at Government Center Saturday and heard Richard Chavez, a UFW vice president, call for a more stringent boycott of Gallo wines and and supermarkets that retail non-UFW lettuce and grapes...
...Chavez charged that growers of California table grapes, also under pressure from a UFW boycott, have begun to put phony UFW labels on non-UFW grapes in order to make them salable...
...brother of UFW president Cesar Chavez said dockworkers in England, Norway, Sweden and Denmark recently vowed not to unload non-UFW table grapes, severely weakening what he characterized as a growing effort to evade the boycott by exporting grapes to Europe...
...Chavez said the boycott has achieved greater success in Boston than in any other city...