Word: huelga
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Demonstrators in the Cambridge march carried signs denouncing California grape and lettuce growers, and calling President Nixon an eater of non-UFW grapes. They also chanted slogans, including "Viva la Huelga," "Hey hey whaddaya say, don't shop A&P today," and "Same struggle, same fight, working people must unite...
...diverse group of active AFL-CIO members, retired garment workers, socialists and students chanted "Viva la huelga!" and sang "Solidarity Forever" as they distributed boycott information to throngs of weekend shoppers who gathered on Tremont, Washington and Winter...
...scenes are straight out of the great grape strike of the late 1960s. In Southern California's Coachella Valley, Chicano laborers again cry "Viva la Huelga" (long live the strike) at flashy sedans roaring through vineyard gates, and priests who join them are arrested for illegal picketing. Cesar Chavez again summons his workers to talk up a grape boycott. But this time, his opposition is not confined to the growers whom he signed to contracts three years ago. Now Chavez's still tiny United Farm Workers Union (28,000 members at the end of 1972) is locked...
...Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, the recently settled grape strike was more than La Huelga, The Strike. It was La Causa-The Cause of economic parity and social dignity for Mexican-Americans. The Spanish-speaking field hands who harvest California's crops are, Chavez believes, his natural constituency. So Chavez declared war when growers in the Salinas Valley "salad bowl" signed an agreement, announced on July 28, stating that they had given the Western Conference of Teamsters organizing jurisdiction over some 10,000 workers...