Word: representations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The answer is that the table grape, Vitis vinifera, has become the symbol of the four-year-old strike of California's predominantly Mexican-American farm workers. For more than a year now, table grapes have been the object of a national boycott that has won the sympathy and support...
(This article, and the one on the next page, represent two views of the Harvard class of 1969. They appeared in the CRIMSON on the morning of their authors' graduation with that class.)
The union's assistant director, Larry Itliong, predicted that the men who had offered to negotiate "will be subject to scorn from certain growers who are determined to destroy the union at all costs." Indeed, Jack Pandol of Delano, where the strike began, reiterated a familiar argument that Chavez...
Jack Baillie, head of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Corp., an organization representing major California fruit and vegetable growers, denounced the ten who agreed to negotiate. Baillie said that nothing should be done until Congress sets up machinery enabling agricultural workers to choose which union, if any, is to represent them...
Sponsored by the National College of State Trial Judges and financed with a $67,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the sessions were also attended by 21 convicts selected to represent a cross section of inmates in Maryland prisons. They were paid $3 per day...