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...CURRENT dispute over Gallo wine sales, all Americans should support the United Farm Workers of American; in fact, they have a responsibility to do so. Specifically, residents of Cambridge should join the UFW's boycott of the Harvard Provision Company, until the store follows other Harvard Square liquor stores in promising to discontinue sale of Gallo wines...
...Gallo issue is not a three- or four-sided issue. It is a two-sided one: The UFW faces a united front of California's growers, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Nixon-Ford administration. In December 1972, the California Supreme Court had to halt an attempt by the Teamsters and the growers, working in collusion, to keep the UFW and its organizers out of the fields. The Teamsters made large and illegal contributions to the Nixon re-election fund; Charles Colson wrote memos instructing the National Labor Relations Board, the Justice Department and the Labor Department to stay...
...consider the unusual coalition of powerful forces the UFW faces, it becomes easier to understand why it needs to resort to a secondary boycott. The way the Teamsters, Gallo and their local distributors mobilize lawyers and ad-men to fight the UFW, and the amount they are willing to spend, gives even the uninformed some idea of how much is at stake for them...
...year rarely less than $5000 or $6000." Richard McGinnity, research assistant to Professor Ray A. Goldburg, Harvard Business School, confirmed as reliable a figure given in a recent study done by him of $8500 in annual earnings for Coachella valley grape workers. Payroll records also show that full-time Gallo winery farmworkers earned $7785 last year...
...Cornett, the labor contractor system to which you refer was in declining use among the grape and lettuce workers until Chavez brought it back in the form of the hiring hall which is really the same thing, except in monopolized form. For example, Gallo company has never used labor contractors...