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Unionizing California's farm workers has been a major AFL-CIO project for three years. In September, 1965, they called a general strike in Delano, California, against 38 major growers. When the logistics of maintaining the strike proved too difficult, the AFL-CIO decided to confront the growers one at a time. Since that time, strikes and national boycotts have been carried out successfully against three now-infamous wine companies: Schenley, DiGiorgio, and Parelli-Minetti. Six others, including Gallo Wine, have singed union contracts after negotiation...
...August 3rd, 1500 men walked off Giumarra's fields. For one week, Giumarra's 25 ranches were virtually shut down. But Giumarra, owned and operated by the many members of the family of that name, had learned something from the previous Delano strikes. There are special contractors who get 50 cents a head for importing workers from Texas and Mexico. The workers, called "scabs," had been earning 12 cents per hour in Mexico, so they discharged their new duties in California with little compunction...
...signs that the church, or parts of it, mean what they say. Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense, is a Presbyterian elder. Churchmen have gone to him privately and appeared against him publicly to the nation's policy of escalation. Presbyterians have been in Buffalo, Rochester, Louisville, Chicago, Cleveland, Watts, Delano, Port Chicago, Mississippi...
During Eastman Kodak Co.'s annual meeting last week in Flemington, N.J., 600 demonstrators paraded quietly outside the local high school. "Kodak is out of focus," read one placard. "The poor will win," proclaimed another. Attending the meeting briefly, the demonstration's leader, Negro Clergyman Franklin Delano Roosevelt Florence, 33, stalked angrily out, thundering: "This is not a meeting of stockholders. This is a meeting of racists." All the rancor obscured the fact that the company did record business during 1967's first quarter...
...lucid views on everything from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's love life to the inner tensions of Mark Twain, from the perils of superpatriotism in the Age of Lyndon Johnson to the paucity of privacy in the Moment of William Manchester. His articles appear in magazines ranging from the Ladies' Home Journal to TV Guide, and his features flicker on the tube from Today to Tonight, expressing, all in one, the horn-rimmed wisdom of the scholar, the sophistication of balding middle age-and the omniscient satisfaction of the eternal Quiz Kid. By this time, in short, the average...