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Another recent, unprecedented example of civil mediation by an official ecclesiastical body occurred earlier this year in the work done by the U. S. Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on the Farm Labor Dispute between California grape growers and workers. The committee of five bishops brought some growers and union representatives together for the first time and effected the first break in the long deadlock through several contractual agreements...
...bread from wine -specifically $1.5 billion a year in domestic sales alone. Wine is also one of the country's most bracing exports, at $500 million. This year, after a worrisomely chilly spring, the weather turned ideal, with just the right blend of sun and showers. As the grape harvest neared its end last week, prospects for the wine business glowed. The bumper crop is expected to yield 57 million barrels of wine, up better than 34% from last year...
Swimming in Grapes. In the Champagne district, the vines are more bountiful than at any other time in this century. The profusion of Pinot Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and other Champagne grapes sometimes led to confusion among the vintners. Moët and Chandon and Piper-Heidsieck had to rent Marne River barges to store their vinous overflow. Others used abandoned water towers and even swimming pools. Assessments of the size and quality of the grape crop in other wine districts were only slightly less heady. A spokesman for the Institut National des Appellations d'Origine, the industry...
Toby Plevin, representing Lamont on the committee, responded, "Although we can't compare ourselves to the starving grape-workers, we do have the right to a sense of contributing to factors relating to our employment...
Chavez and the farm workers hope that the lettuce boycott can be as successful in convincing lettuce and strawberry growers to negotiate with the United Farm Workers Union as the grape strike was last year...