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Local organizers for the UFW yesterday distributed leaflets urging citizens to support the boycott at ten local Protestant and Catholic churches yesterday to mark the beginning of "Cambridge United Farm Workers Week...
After the vote, John E. McHale, another Cambridge Committee organizer, told The Crimson that Wylie sponsored the measure largely because UFW organizers had worked on Wylie's November campaign for the council. One of the organizers is also a close neighbor of Wylie's McHale said...
Virginia Jones, a UFW organizer, told the ralliers to remember 19 farmworkers she said were recently killed when an unsafe company bus drove into an irrigation ditch...
Demonstrators in the Cambridge march carried signs denouncing California grape and lettuce growers, and calling President Nixon an eater of non-UFW grapes. They also chanted slogans, including "Viva la Huelga," "Hey hey whaddaya say, don't shop A&P today," and "Same struggle, same fight, working people must unite...
...marchers--some of them members of AFL-CIO locals, the United Electrical Workers, and other labor unions supporting the UFW--periodically broke into "Solidarity Forever," "Union Maid," and other songs made popular by the labor movements of the 1930s...