Word: gallos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Corporate farms in California account for 90% of the melon crop and 30% of the citrus crop, two of the main areas of UFW activity. Two corporations control over a third of the nation's production of leafy green vegetables, another key area of UFW organizing. (National, 6/15/71). And Gallo wine, currently the main target of the UFW boycott in Cambridge, produces at least 37% of all domestic wine (Fortune 9/71), and is worth an estimated $250 million (Business Week, 9/19/70...
...liquor store's managers said yesterday in a formal statement, "Our customers will dictate what we will carry, not what we will not carry." They added they think the Gallo dispute is an inter-union problem...
...United Farm Workers claim that Varsity Liquor, Broadway Supermarket, Thrifty Liquor, Sage's and several other Cambridge liquor dealers have either taken Gallo off their shelves or will not order more when current stocks are depleted...
...group of 70 demonstrators picketed outside the Provision Co. on Mt. Auburn St. Saturday night, urging customers to stay out of the store until the management takes Gallo off the shelves...
...United Farm Workers Union claims the E. & J. Gallo Winery of Modesto, Calif., signed unfair contracts with the Teamsters union in 1973. Gallo claims the contract was legal and fair, and states that the current UFW-sponsored boycott of their wines is unjust...