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...refusal to participate in compulsory air-raid drills. This time she was arrested, with more than 2,100 Mexican-Americans and members of the Catholic clergy, for demonstrating on the picket lines of the United Farm Workers in violation of court orders. These have been hard times for Cesar Chavez's UFW. His union, caught in a squeeze between the growers and the more powerful Teamsters, has dwindled from 40,000 to 15,000 members. Compromise talks between the two unions broke off in anger. As for Miss Day, in the Fresno jail, she was told she could...
...resolution passed yesterday modified a strongly pro-UFW resolution passed by the House and the Senate last Wednesday after Cesar Chavez, director of the UFW, was introduced on the House floor...
...Cesar Chavez, director of the United Farm Workers union, arrived in Boston early this morning to take part in a drive to enlist support for the UFW's boycott of non-union California lettuce and table grapes...
...Chavez will appear with farm workers and other labor leaders at a rally on the steps of the State House at noon today...
Boycotts are a drag. You're tired of them, just as the farm workers are tired of striking (and all that goes with it). But the workers will not be reduced to chattel again. Least of all Teamster chattel. Cesar Chavez asks consumers to unite as never before. No less will cause the growers to grant workers the simple right to vote, by secret ballot, on the union to represent them: the UFW or the Teamsters...