Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immigrants are simply sent back across the border, but many return. They have become a special curse to the A.F.L.C.I.O. United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, which is waging an uphill struggle to organize migrant laborers. Illegal workers, the union charges, have been hired by union-hating farmers to break strikes. About 2,200 wetbacks have been arrested in the past six months in California's Kern County, the scene of a bitter strike against growers of table grapes organized by Cesar Chavez, leader of the farm workers. Other strikebreakers, the union alleges, have been recruited illegally from among "green...
...strike in a situation like this is like an atom bomb," Sullivan said. "As soon as you drop it the threat is gone. The important thing is to exploit the threat...
Petitions being circulated all last week by an ad hoc committee set up at Radcliffe pledged support of the strike, and urged students not to strikebreak by serving themselves in the event that there was food but no waitresses...
According to Deborah A. Batts '69, president of RUS, Sullivan had requested that the students take no action until plans for a strike were definite, saying that it would look like "bad faith" on the part of the Union. RUS had agreed to cooperate with the strike once it was announced, she added...
...campus discipline and that it wants university officials to deal harshly with protestors. Colleges which seem to be "coddling" their demonstrating students will probably face serious reprisals, especially if a President Nixon is blessed with a Republican House. Reactionaries in the Senate have already demonstrated their capacity to strike back at uncooperative administrators: any college which refuses to allow military recruiters on campus will be denied NASA research grants, as a result of a Republican-sponsored amendment to an appropriation bill this summer...