Word: scabbed
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...last two weeks scab lettuce emerged as a political issue, in the midst of much cynicism and many bad puns. (Would it have been inexcusably naive to expect anything else from a Harvard audience?) But the student organizers began with confidence that they could get enough people to take them seriously; after all,, they had a good cause and they were heading straight for the bureaucracy with it. Not a bad risk, really: administrative fumbles have provoked us to positive action, in the past...
Seventeen hundred people remembered grapes well enough to sign the petition against scab lettuce at Harvard. Once again, after moral arguments had been ineffective, Cesar Chavez called for a boycott to exert economic pressure upon the growers. The demands were not quite the same. The objective of the grapes boycott was to obtain the growers recognition of the farmworkers' union (one of the few not yet protected by national labor legislation). The unsettling complication with lettuce was that most of the growers could point to a contract they made with the Teamsters Union last summer as their excuse for avoiding...
Picketing of several Harvard dining halls to protest the University's continued purchasing of non-union lettuce has generally been successful, but most students seem to be unaware of the issues behind the phrase "scab lettuce...
...mandate on this issue," said David P. Levin '71, a member of the student group. "We went to the food purchasers last week with a petition signed by 1700 people, and we told them our reasons. But there is still scab lettuce at Harvard...
...Twenty per cent of the lettuce served in the dining halls is scab lettuce. Not buying it would be a small thing for the University to do, and it could positively affect the conditions for migrant workers...