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Workers in the Gallo fields in Modesto, Calif., were members of the United Farm Workers Union until April 1973, when, the UFW charges, Gallo signed a contract with the Teamsters Union based on a non-democratic election. Gallo denies the charges...
...picket line was organized by the Harvard-Radcliffe Boycott Support Committee. Members of the R-H New American Movement, the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, the UFW and a number of non-aligned students stood on line from 7 to 9:30 p.m., carrying signs, singing and chanting...
...Cambridge police patrolmen at the scene made no attempts to stop the picketers, but did ticket a van carrying UFW organizers when it stopped in front of the Mt. Auburn St. store...
Last week four House masters announced that they were joining a boycott against Harvard Provision Co., a liquor store in the Square. The store has committed the crime of offering Gallo wine to its customers even though Cesar Chavez and his United Farm Workers Union (UFW) has called for a boycott of the product. Harvard Pro is the major liquor supplier for House masters and Yard proctors, and the four masters made the decision after two weeks of picketing and petition drives against Harvard Pro by student groups...
Another source of misrepresentations by Chavez and his supporters has been the subject of farmworkers' wages. In 1972, UFW vice president Dolores Huerta reported on public television, "The average earnings of a farmworker in the U.S. are only $1400 a year...