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Last Tuesday, C. Pappas Co., the Boston-area distributor of Gallo wines, and the Avenue Liquor Mart of Fresh Pond filed complaints against the United Farm Workers and the Harvard Boycott Support Committee, charging they are conducting an illegal boycott in their attempts to enforce the nationwide, UFW-sponsored boycott of Gallo wines...
...complaint filed by the Provision Co. was filed too late in the day to be made available to the public. But Alan Schlosser, lawyer for the UFW, and Nick Jones, UFW's coordinator for the northeast, are defendants in the new suit...
...earlier suits, the one filed by Pappas would have the greater effect, stopping picketers at all the stores Pappas serves. The suits seek only to keep the UFW and its supporters from picketing and do not include requests for damage payments...
...explained that the Pappas suit is similar to a suit the A & P Co. brought against the UFW last year. "They invested $50,000 in that case," Jones said. "And when we got into court we kicked their pants. All our activity is perfectly legal...
...UFW and several support committees throughout the Boston area have been picketing for several months against stores selling Gallo wines, but only the Harvard Support Committee was named in the suit...