Word: ufw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Farm Workers working on the J.P. Stevens boycott? The UFW, which has worked for the past 15 years primarily near its base in California, is moving into other areas...
...union wants to organize agricultural workers in the South, an area with a very anti-union sentiment. While the UFW has been organizing in the fields of California and Arizona, textile workers in the Carolinas and Georgia have been attempting to organize in the fabric mills and apparel factories...
Most violent in its illegal resistance to the struggle for unionization has been the J.P. Stevens Company. As long as there remains such strong resistance to the unions, and while companies such as J.P. Stevens still retain their hold on southern workers, the UFW's organizing work in the southern fields will have to wait. Instead, the farmworkers will support the struggles of the textile workers, in order that the workers of the South, both in the fields and in the mills, will realize that the fight for unionization must be waged together...
...UFW has recently shifted its emphasis from the farm workers' movement to the Stevens boycott, following the UFW's national policy...
Roger Wallach '79, chairman of the HR-UFW, said yesterday HR-UFW, said yesterday HR-UFW showed the films in an effort to mobilize more students for their protest in Central Square on March 18, and for the up-coming New England-wide rally on April...