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...council voted unanimously to prevent the construction of a McDonald's Restaurant on the site of a 125-year-old landmark in Central Square. In April it even endorsed the United Farm Workers, requesting the city manager suspend all city purchases of boycotted lettuce and grapes and proclaiming a UFW Week in Cambridge. However, as summer approached, the council voted to prohibit concerts on Cambridge Common...
...heard folk-singers Bob McCarthy and Allan Taylor, which reminds me that I've rarely heard anything so scandalous as the story of the Teamsters' betrayal of the United Farmworkers in California. You can help by boycotting non-union grapes, lettuce, and Gallo wine. For more info on the UFW, call 536-9465 or 288-9347. Through Sunday, June 2 at Passim. Call 492-7679 for information on the show...
...Sigman, the lawyer for the UFW in Boston, said yesterday that part of the UFW's agreements with the Boston stores includes the right to inspect their storerooms periodically...
Spokesmen for First National, Purity Supreme, Star Market, and Stop and Shop, the four chains with UFW pacts, all corroborated Sigman's statement yesterday...
...UFW currently controls about 15 per cent of the lettuce grown in the United States...