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...United Farm Workers (UFW), led by Cesar Chavez, has called for a nationwide boycott of all non-union lettuce. The UFW is the same group that organized the recent grape boycott...
...teamsters have publicly announced their support of the UFW. They want to get out of their contract with the lettuce growers, but it's to the growers' advantage to hold them to it. The teamsters probably won't be able to get out of the contract until the boycott is as complete as it was with grapes," Levin added...
Earlier this week, the group presented to the University food purchasers a petition signed by nearly 1700 students asking that Harvard buy only UFW lettuce. The purchasers informed the students that although 80 per cent of Harvard lettuce is union-picked, any decision to buy only union lettuce would violate both Harvard's neutrality and its economic obligation to the students...
Relative lettuce prices are responsible for Harvard purchasing policy, Robert S. Mullen, Director of Purchases, said yesterday to members of the ad hoc student group supporting the UFW...
Though impressed by the petition, L.Gard Wiggins, Administrative Vice President, said that any commitment to purchase only UFW lettuce would jeopardize Harvard's neutrality...