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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...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: City Council Boycott in Doubt As Local UFW Week Begins | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: But a Call To Endorse the Farmworkers | 4/27/1974 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin and Seth M. Kupferberg, S | Title: 2000 Gather for Demonstration Backing Farm Workers' Boycott | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin and Seth M. Kupferberg, S | Title: 2000 Gather for Demonstration Backing Farm Workers' Boycott | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin and Seth M. Kupferberg, S | Title: 2000 Gather for Demonstration Backing Farm Workers' Boycott | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

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