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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...
...DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE STATISTICS: It is very easy to play with numbers as Ferrara has proven. He uses numbers of a national survey to account for a problem which is Californian in nature: the boycott of scab grapes, Gallo wines and iceberg lettuce. According to the same source (U.S. Dept. of Ag.) there are well over 200,000 farm workers in California (1967, latest statistics available). Of these 1/3 are migrants. In 1968, the average hourly wage in California for a farm worker was $1.75 per hour. This included permanent and seasonal workers. BUT, farm workers in the table...
...farm workers will continue to struggle against the Teamsters and Gallo and other growers and they will win. They will win for the very simple reason that their cause is just. Time is on their side...
...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...