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Chavez told the Government Center gathering that Gallo--which produces 40 per cent of California wine and recently signed a contract with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters--is "in trouble" because of the UFW-organized boycott of liquor stores selling its wines. He said Gallo has had to cut back from three daily working shifts to two since the boycott began...
Over 2000 supporters of the United Farm Workers (UFW) rallied at Government Center Saturday and heard Richard Chavez, a UFW vice president, call for a more stringent boycott of Gallo wines and and supermarkets that retail non-UFW lettuce and grapes...
Supporters of the boycott maintain that Gallo's agreement with the Teamsters is a "sweetheart" contract--a contract signed with an unrepresentative union to try to head off more militant organizing...
...Joey Gallo's career must have been a disappointment to him. Despite the most strenuous criminal efforts, he never did find a place above the salt at the Mafia's endless family banquet. His alternate gambit, as a kind of self-taught existential hero on Manhattan's celebrity circuit, did not amount to much either. And of course he ended up dead of assorted, uncredited gunshot wounds in a clam bar in Little Italy a couple of years back...
...safely said about Italians involved with organized crime is that they are mostly dull and stupid people. Movies such as "The Godfather" have glorified the life of criminals. Most criminals follow a dull routine which involves constant risks. Few of them read Sartre and Camus like Joey Gallo was reputed to have done; getting through the Daily News each day is a major accomplishment for most. Because of the code of violence they live under, people involved in organized crime does take and whatever businesses it is involved with, it is not a pleasant way of life...