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There will be an inspirational rally" on Sunday, May 2, led by Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Workers, George Wiley from National Welfare Rights Organization, Ralph Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Jane Fonda, who has been one of the most successful fund raisers the anti-war movement has ever...
Aside from the obvious candidates-such as Albert M. Sacks, acting dean of the Law School-the list includes less likely deans such as Cesar Chavez, William Kunstler and Ralph Nader. There are no women on the list, which is made up of 34 professors, three judges and seven "outsiders...
...moratorium on the boycott was announced by Cesar Chavez, leader of the UFWOC, after George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, and Frank E. Fitzsimmons, president of the Teamsters, agreed to submit disputes between the two national unions to binding arbitration. The UFWOC, a member of the AFL-CIO, has been challenging the jurisdiction of the Teamsters to represent lettuce pickers...
...agreement also provides that the Teamsters must annul all contracts with lettuce growers covering field workers. Chavez plans to begin negotiations immediately with the 75 growers in the Salinas Valley of California who signed contracts with the Teamsters last summer...
Student groups have pressured the university to buy only lettuce picked by the United Farm Workers headed by Cesar Chavez. But university officials said they couldn't because they were committed to making all purchases on bids. Another stumbling block came from a rival student group that said all lettuce should come from Teamsters Union Fields...