Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grape Strike...
...strike of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), which Chavez heads, against the table grape growers of the west coast is in its forty-ninth month. The national boycott of table grapes organized by the UFWOC has reduced domestic purchases by 30 per cent, Chavez said...
...Defense Department, Chavez said, is using its "overwhelming power for the sole purpose of breaking the strike...
Cesar Chavez. organizer of the California grape strike, also spoke at the meeting, after finishing his own speech in Lowell Lecture Hall. Chavez extolled the role of students in this country and said that there was a feeling of solidarity between farm workers and students...
Over the summer, Osborne added, when the McCarthy campaign people working on the Moratorium invited SMC to participate. "We told them that we would prefer to call it a strike. They told us do your own thing...