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...California's vineyards and truck farms. Last week, before television cameras, the two unions signed a peace treaty that gives the field hands to the U.F.W., and the canners, packers and farm-truck drivers to the Teamsters. The unlikely allies pledged to honor each other's picket lines, support each other's organizing efforts and cooperate in seeking legislation to strengthen the right of farm workers to union representation. "Both of us were fed up with fighting," said an exultant Chavez as he signed the agreement with M.E. Anderson, director of the Western Conference of Teamsters...
...Last week, as a record 550 shareholders jammed into the cafeteria and three other rooms of the Stevens Tower in mid-Manhattan for the annual meeting, management got its first taste of the new offensive. In the street below, 3,000 ACTWU sympathizers-butchers, seamen, teachers, Princeton students-waved picket signs and chanted union slogans. At the meeting, several former Stevens workers accused the company of firing them for union activity. Many Roman Catholic nuns and priests and Methodist ministers, members of five religious organizations that had bought shares of Stevens stock in order to have a voice, expressed concern...
...United Farm Workers union is on the move, still powerful, still convinced of eventual victory, but a victory which will be hard-won. La Causa continues the good fight, in the fields where a massive organizing effort is underway, on the picket lines, over the conference table with intransigent growers, and in the day-to-day scramble to survive. Yet those of us who assumed the strike had been won are needed again. The great majority of people who pick the food for our tables are still unprotected by a union contract, still subjected to brutal work conditions in order...
...something everyone knows. There is all kind of talk about the country's not being able to stand the shock, but the script insists on quoting some of the infamous documents that are preying on Lancaster's mind. There is nothing in them worth picking up a picket sign to protest, let alone knocking over a missile base. In short, the movie's not in considerable possibilities for innocent entertainment are undercut by the feckless desire of small minds to make a big statement...
...Forum. At UCLA, in 1975 the SYL as part of the Committee to End University Complicity with the CIA, organized a demonstration demanding that all complicity with the CIA be terminated and that all UCLA-CIA correspondence be published. An SYL-initiated committee at U Cal. Berkeley organized a picket and demonstration drawing over 250 participants around the slogans "CIA/NSA Recruiters off campus!" and "Abolish the CIA/NSA!" At Yale, an SYL propaganda campaign protesting the upcoming appearance of CIA recruiters on campus resulted in the cancellation of those scheduled interviews. Here in Boston, the super spy agency must be opposed...