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...picketers, including members of the Radcliffe-Harvard New American Movement and the Democratic-Socialist Organizing Committee, support the UFW and its claims that the Gallo Co. signed unfair labor contracts with the Teamsters' union in 1973. Gallo spokesmen deny the charge and say the company considers the boycott unfair...
...figure does not include housing, room, and board but does include the rural areas of the south and elsewhere, which I referred to in my article, where poverty among farmworkers does exist. Now compare this to the figure of $1400 for a whole year's work given by the UFW. My contention was that the UFW was distorting the facts to gain public support. You seem to have proven my point, especially since grape and lettuce workers earn much more than your national median figures. And it's not just income that they have distorted, but migrancy, farmer's incomes...
...UFW claims that Gallo signed an unfair contract with the Teamsters union in 1973; Gallo refutes the charge and says it has always supported unions and democratic elections...
...local store-owners say they feel victimized by a boycott here when the real dispute is in the California fields. Nevertheless, the battle-lines are being drawn Gallo and the local distributor plan to fight UFW and its student sympathizers with lawyers and ads. The retailers are trying to hold onto an increasingly difficult position as Gallo sales drop...
...boycott strategists say they hope retailers will put pressure on the distributor to in turn pressure Gallo into talking with the UFW...