Word: scabbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pique after three White House screenings of Love Story, Nixon orders "protective reaction nuclear elimination" of Latin America and Communist China. "Genocide means never having to say you're sorry," he explains. In response, SDS calls for a demonstration demanding: 1.) pro-rata exclusionary rebates for all scab lettuce; 2.) no reprisals against workers with overdue library books; 3.) restoration of the Sinai Peninsula to the Palestinians. "We will not leave these steps until Racist Boss Wiggins [known to his close personal friends as "Administrative Vice President L. Gard Wiggins"-Ed.] accedes to all our demands," SDS says...
...Committee will work with the Administration on details for an inspection system later this week. "It's not that we don't trust the Administration," Petrey said, "but the wholesale companies have been known to slip scab lettuce into the shipments, and you can never be too sure...
About 150 people rallied in the Yard yesterday at 11:30 a.m. to protest Harvard's use of scab lettuce and the increase in parking fees...
Radcliffe's willingness to honor the national boycott of scab lettuce represents a victory for the lettuce pickers, who have been striking for the right to join the United Farm Workers...
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...