Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California governorship marked the end of his public life. In politics as well as business, the most common rationalization is that the loser has refused to pay a "price" for winning. Henry Clay, who spent 20 years trying to occupy the White House, finally produced that famous sour grape: "I would rather be right than President." A sweeter reaction, "Now I can see my family," was used by William Scranton in 1964 and Nelson Rockefeller in 1968. How would the Great Scorer judge Eugene McCarthy? After losing the Indiana and Nebraska primaries, he sent no congratulatory words to the winners...
...conspiracy to destroy a Federal agency sounds farfetched, but the political climate is dangerous. Most people believe that unions are disruptive and already too powerful. The dollar-an-hour wage of the grape workers belies this, but the recent strikes by teachers, telephone workers, and government employees have done little to help...
...Delano area then began to lay the groundwork for the National Farm Workers' Union. Beginning in the Mexican-American community in the small farm town of Delano, they established a credit union and a food cooperative, and began making plans for further community services. Then, in 1965, the Filipino grape pickers in the Delano area spontaneously went out on strike. The National Farm Workers were unprepared for the move, with only $52.50 in the union treasury, but voted anyway to join the Filipinos in a massive walkout of some 5000 grape pickers...
SINCE THE first strike, and a wine boycott against the Schenley company, the farmworkers have held and won union elections on seven of the grape ranches in the area, including Schenley and the California giant, DiGiorgio Farms. The remaining holdouts have proven more resistant, and the target of the present boycott, Giumarra Vineyards, has issued statements indicating that it never intends to negotiate with the Farm Workers on any basis. Still, the union has established itself in California as the strongest organization of agricultural workers since the thirties...
...PAST MONTH, the grape strikers have become increasingly concerned over the probability of Nixon's election. Whereas Humphrey has endorsed the boycott, Nixon has strongly opposed it, terming it "a descent into lawlessness...