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...statement, the Administration makes clear that Harvard's participation in the boycott of non-UFW lettuce is an expression of support for the migrant workers...
...sympathetic to the state of the migrant workers and to the perfectly natural and proper desire of the many members of this community to support measures to improve their conditions," a CHUL statement-released yesterday-said...
...many nice guys in our sagt-in fact, we can't even focus all of our disgust on one antagonist which might be somewhat idle; anyway there's a boycott on. We decide we want to improve the conditions for migrant workers and we can join consumers and chain stores in organized activity. It worked once with grapes. In this frame of mind, we can be rather startled when our administrators defend their position on lettuce by admitting that their policy on grapes had been equally impervious to moral argument. We knew that Harvard had stopped buying grapes, but little...
...with lettuce, Harvard admits that 20% of its purchases (amounting to 660 crates of lettuce, costing $3000 yearly) must come from sources having Teamster contracts in order to preserve university neutrality. Realistically, to call that policy a definitive stand in favor of substandard conditions for migrant workers is to exaggerate. So the students have been asking for a relatively small thing, a symbolic expression of sympathy with the cause...
Harvard's position is not "neutral" -by purchasing non-union lettuce Harvard actively supports the oppression of migrant workers. The Administration has apparent disregard for the moral issues-what must be done now is convince Harvard of the extent of support for the boycott within the community. The small positive step of supporting the boycott will have a great effect in creating an atmosphere of trust within this community...