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...Labor found that nine out of ten migrant children fail to keep up with school work, and repeat grades. Dr. Robert Coles, of the Harvard School of Public Health, has summarized the consequences of child farm labor: "When a child is ten, he ceases to be a child." UFW contracts forbid child labor, while providing wages and benefits that allow a family to survive without...
...Ferrara doubts that workers want to be represented by the UFW, he should consider the fact that since 1966, scores of elections have been held among field workers: most were by card-check or ratification, and some were held with secret ballots. The workers voted for UFW representation in all but two elections. unfortunately, such votes are not binding for agricultural employers. In addition, the enormous amount of strike activity organized by the union is worthy of note. Ferrara presents nothing more recent than his misinformation concerning the 1965 strike...
...picketers, including members of the Radcliffe Harvard New American Movement, the Democratic Socialists Organizing Committee and the UFW, have been fairly successful in getting Gallo wines off the shelves in most other Square liquor stores and are urging a total boycott of the Provision Co. Until Gallo comes off the shelf there as well...
However the suit reads and whatever its success, the E & J Gallo Winery Co. has already begun to mobilize a nation-wide advertising campaign to refute the UFW claims, especially in Boston, New York and Toronto where the boycott has been most successful...
...reporter cites the lack of support of the workers for the UFW and uses examples such as the "Riverside ad" which was allegedly paid by "8,000" workers. That ad was paid by the growers, through a worker front, much like the dirty tricks of the Nixon administration. As further proof of the ad's phoniness, ELECTIONS TO RATIFY THE CONTRACTS SIGNED BETWEEN THE UFW AND THE TABLE GRAPE GROWERS IN THE COACHELLA VALLEY WERE HELD DURING THE DAYS THAT AD APPEARED. THE UNITED FARM WORKERS WON EVERY ELECTION OVERWHELMINGLY! Doesn't it seem strange that "8,000" farm workers...