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Lassen, speaking at a meeting of an as yet unnamed group formed to support Cesar Chavez's movement, outlined a plan of action which included the picketing of area restaurants and supermarkets not selling UFW lettuce...
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...Cesar Chavez, director of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW), will march with the demonstrators from Faneuil Hall to the A&P Boston headquarters on Atlantic...
...United Farmworkers, under the leadership of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, are slowly changing all that. The grape strike and boycott of the late 1960s won contracts from all major California and Arizona table grape growers by 1970. But the other produce industries remain to be tackled, one by one, until the growers will agree to provide wages, security, working conditions and benefits that have been considered basic in most industries for decades, and more importantly, until they recognize the workers' own choice of union representation. That can only be done by putting consumer pressure on the non-union growers...
...clothing workers boycott has been joined by a Citizens Committee for Justice for Farah Workers, chaired by Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.). Included among the group's membership are Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.). Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54, (D-Mass.). Cesar Chavez, Representative Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.), New York Mayor John V. Lindsay and Morris B. Abrams, former president of Brandeis College...