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...members of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) were arrested yesterday on charges of "rude and disorderly conduct" while they demonstrated in front of two Cambridge liquor stores...
...UFWOC decided ten days ago to picket several Boston area liquor stores to promote a boycott of wines made by nine growers in Napa Valley. Calif. The boycott is an attempt to force the growers to negotiate with the UFWOC. Since January, the growers have refused to recognize the union, which represents migrant grape-pickers...
About half of the prospective customers are supporting the Boycott. George Sheridan, a member of the UFWOC, said yesterday...
...ROAD building that took place at Harvard began, rather appropriately, with a farm worker cause early in the fall. Working along with the United Farmers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) representative in Boston, a group of students, both Chicano and Anglo, decided to press Harvard into buying only UFWOC picked lettuce. The Ad Hoc Committee to Stop Scab Lettuce at Harvard designed a petition asking for only union lettuce, collected 1100 signatures, and presented it to the Harvard Administration. The petition was dismissed because it represented the wishes of only a small group of students. After some long-winded meetings with Administration...
Organizing at Harvard to demand that the University buy only UFWOC lettuce began last October with a series of one-night boycotts of dining halls to dramatize the demands. After the boycotts, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life voted to serve UFWOC lettuce exclusively...