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...resolution passed yesterday modified a strongly pro-UFW resolution passed by the House and the Senate last Wednesday after Cesar Chavez, director of the UFW, was introduced on the House floor...
...resolution, introduced after State Representative John F. Melia made a motion to reconsider the earlier resolution, avoids any specific mention of the UFW. It does, however, support the UFW position on the right of the farm workers to choose their own union in "free and fair" elections, and it condemns growers who force their workers to accept a union chosen by the grower alone...
State Representative Barney Frank, a speaker at the UFW rally on the State House steps last Tuesday and firm supporter of the original resolution, said yesterday that the new resolution was a defeat for the UFW. "It was a compromise," Frank said, "But in the current context, the new resolution still supports the UFW as opposed to the Teamsters...
Nick Jones, an official of the Boston office of the UFW, told last night's meeting that the boycott, coordinated with the California strike, will force the growers to deal with the UFW...
Sprague emphasized "the essentially religious nature of this struggle," and said that the New England Protestant establishment is behind the UFW "100 per cent...