Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue that arouses as much -» passion as the California grape strike, the subject of TIME'S cover story this week, inevitably poses a doubly difficult task for journalists. The simplest facts become fogged by rhetoric; rumor and innuendo abound and every source, it seems, has chosen sides. To meet this challenge, TIME'S Los Angeles bureau deployed nine correspondents and stringers across the Southwest. For several weeks, they toured the towns and vineyards, traveling thousands of miles and talking to hundreds of people for their report to Writer Keith Johnson and Editor Laurence Barrett...
...side of the dispute. Most of the' time, she could only interview the growers at night, after their 15-or 16-hour day, and she went away suspecting that tempers were short largely be cause the owners worked such killing ,hours. Curiously, no one ever offered her a grape...
ITEM: In Honolulu, the Young Americans for Freedom organizes an "emergency grape lift" by jet from the mainland, inviting "all of those starved for the sight of a California grape to come to the airport...
...after more than a month of secret meetings, a major-and unexpected-breakthrough is in progress. Ten growers representing about 25% of California's table-grape production have announced their willingness to negotiate with Chavez. One farm workers' organizer said: "It's so beautiful I can hardly believe it." The union quickly agreed to talk. Last week, at the request of both sides, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service consented to help the parties come to terms, and negotiations began in Los Angeles...
Guimarra Vineyards Corp., the state's largest table-grape producer with 10% of the crop, also continues to oppose negotiations adamantly, along with many smaller operators. But the union, buoyed by its initial success, is equally determined. Says Union Counsel Jerome Cohen: "We're not going to let up an inch until we have a contract with every single grower in California." Meanwhile, la huelga and el boicoteo will continue...