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Harvard supporters of the United Farm Workers (UFW) decided last night to switch the main thrust of their effort from the A & P store on Linnaean St. to the company's store on Mass Ave in hopes of gaining greater support from Harvard Houses and the Yard...
...group, consisting of about 14 Harvard-Radcliffe students and two members from the Cambridge branch of UFW, also outlined plans to increase student participation in union activities...
Marry Lassen '75, an organizer of Harvard support for UFW, proposed that an information slide show be presented in each of the houses soon after the start of the second semester...
Cambridge supporters of the UFW have been picketing restaurants, stores and fruit stands for the past nine months. Picketers try to educate customers about the UFW's boycott of non-union lettuce, grapes and Gallo wine. In addition, the picket lines provide pressure for stores like A&P to cooperate with the boycott...
Recently the right of UFW supporters to picket has come under attack. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is expected to rule this week on the union's right to picket in shopping centers. According to "Shopping Center World," a retail trade journal, over 50 per cent of the annual retail consumer sales are made in shopping centers in the three most urban New England states--Mass., Conn., and R.I. In an article in the November 4, 1973, Globe, David Rogers states that one of the key conflicts involved is between "the property rights of center owners and the First Amendment...