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...most symbolically important contest had yet to be decided. Chavez and his supporters have been boycotting the wines of the E. & J. Gallo Winery -California's largest producer-since 1973, when Gallo officials declined to renew their contract with the U.F.W. and instead signed with the Teamsters. At that time, workers did not vote their own preference for which union would represent them. The growers negotiated directly with the union heads. Last week 233 Gallo grape pickers voted to stick with the Teamsters, while 131 chose the U.F.W. But both unions challenged 198 ballots-throwing the outcome in doubt...
Harvard Pro stubbornly insists on marketing wines produced by the E. & J. Gallo winery of Modesto, Calif., a firm that has--just as stubbornly--maintained its contracts with the Teamsters...
...today; by contrast, the Teamsters now have 55,000 members. Bloody organizational fights between the two unions have become almost routine, and Chavez has maintained boycotts of lettuce not picked by his workers, and of table grapes and all wines produced by the E. & J. Gallo Winery. Gallo's workers in 1973 switched from the Chavez union to the Teamsters, but only in an unsupervised vote...
...Chavez and 17 growers-the Teamsters would not join in-the Governor produced a compromise bill. Under the measure, the farm workers, beginning next January, will be able to vote with secret ballots in state-supervised elections for any union they want. Secondary boycotts-picketing liquor stores that carry Gallo wines, for example-will be restricted, limiting Chavez's use of one of his most effective weapons...
Chavez supports the bill because he says that he can depose the Teamsters in almost all the elections. Gallo backs the bill and so do the growers. The Teamsters are opposed to it. The bill's chances in the California legislature are good nonetheless; a state senate committee has approved it by a 5-to-l margin. There will probably not be an immediate end to the labor conflicts even if the bill is passed, but it is at least a move toward peace-and the legally protected free choice of unions for farm workers...