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...United Farm Workers (UFW) support group in the Cambridge area is intensifying its efforts to gain Harvard students' support for the union's drive to organize California's migrant laborers, a spokesman for the group said yesterday...
...group believes it is important to alert students to the ongoing boycott of non-UFW lettuce, grapes and Gallo products because the UFW "efforts in Boston and at Harvard provide the organization and the money that keeps the movement going," Hershenbaum said...
Steve Aldrich '78 agreed yesterday that "the response has not been over-whelming," but added that he expected that an intensified effort by the support group would make the UFW a more prominent issue...
Mark Johnson, a member of the Cambridge support group, said yesterday the UFW has concentrated its efforts in the last year on passing collective bargaining legislation in California, rather than on publicizing the boycott...
Hershenbaum said the UFW has won 70 per cent of the elections it has held in California, but said, "The boycotts will continue until every farm worker gets his job back...