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Last night over 500 of the UFW's Boston-area farm workers and their supporters gathered to hear Dolores Huerta, vice president of the UFW, report from California via a telephone loud-speaker connection. Huerta spoke about the conditions facing the UFW's strikers there...
California police are jailing over 500 strikers a day who are defying an injunction which prohibits picketing near the fields. Despite the injunction, Huerta reported that nearly 9500 farm workers and supporters are manning picket lines...
...United Farmworkers, under the leadership of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, are slowly changing all that. The grape strike and boycott of the late 1960s won contracts from all major California and Arizona table grape growers by 1970. But the other produce industries remain to be tackled, one by one, until the growers will agree to provide wages, security, working conditions and benefits that have been considered basic in most industries for decades, and more importantly, until they recognize the workers' own choice of union representation. That can only be done by putting consumer pressure on the non-union growers...
...explode in the latter stages of the season, scoring four goals against the Bruins, more than either highscoring Harvard or Penn. Although the Big Red could manage only 19 Ivy goals versus 31 apiece for the Quakers and for the Crimson, its forwards, led by All-Ivies Victor Huerta. Chris Agoliati and Bill Murray should, theoretically at least, be as potent a line as any in the Ivy League. Harvard, however, is counting on the offensive explosiveness of Adedeji, Vujovic, Hinze, and Papaginnis...
Agoltan moved into the ranks of the top five scorers with a three goals performance against Brown pacing Cornell to a 41 victory. With the game knotted in the first half on goals by Victor Huerta of Cornell and Ferdinand of Brown Agohalt exploited to drive home all three of his goals in the span of 13 minutes...