Word: scabbing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week ago, 70 demonstrators picketed at the Harvard Provision Co.--a liquor store on Mt. Auburn St. still selling Gallo--charging that Gallo uses scab labor in their fields in Modesto, California...
...DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE STATISTICS: It is very easy to play with numbers as Ferrara has proven. He uses numbers of a national survey to account for a problem which is Californian in nature: the boycott of scab grapes, Gallo wines and iceberg lettuce. According to the same source (U.S. Dept. of Ag.) there are well over 200,000 farm workers in California (1967, latest statistics available). Of these 1/3 are migrants. In 1968, the average hourly wage in California for a farm worker was $1.75 per hour. This included permanent and seasonal workers. BUT, farm workers in the table...
...picketers--numbering almost 70 at one point--claimed that the Gallo Winery Co. uses scab labor in its California fields and called for a boycott of the product and the store...
...Proposition, Boston's longest run, is on strike this week, and there's been more theatre on the sidewalk than inside, where a scab production has been put together...
...course, this Hunt, that will uncover a lot of things. You open that scab, there's a hell of a lot of things, and we just feel that it would be very detrimental to have this thing go any further. This involves these Cubans, Hunt and a lot of hanky-panky that we have nothing to do with ourselves. Well, what the hell, did Mitchell know about this...