YOU DID IT!
The Grape
Boycott
is Over
But the farm workers' bitter struggle still goes on.
In August of 1970, nearly 6,000 of the 7,000 lettuce workers
in Salinas, California, under the leadership of Cesar Chavez and ;
the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, went on strike.
The strike was the most effective in history. Lettuce shipments
dropped from 350 to 35 boxcars a day!
But in the third week of the strike, Judge Anthony Brazil
(who helped destroy the Salinas lettuce strike of 1936) issued a
far-reaching, vicious injunction prohibiting picketing and commu–
nication with strikebreakers.
As the volume of lettuce shipments has begun to climb, the
strategy has once more shifted to boycott. One company (the Inter–
harvest Company) has signed a contract. UFWOC's Union Label \
(the black eagle) appears on wrapped lettuce bearing Inter–
harvest's "Chiquita" and "Amigo" labels.
BOYCOTT ALL LETTUCE NOT BEARING
UFWOC'S UNION LABEL. DEMAND SUCH
LETTUCE TO BE SOLD IN YOUR MARKET.
We need money to buy food and clothing for families out of
work. Please send checks payable
to
"Un'ited Farm Workers Or–
ganizing Committee" to:
Lettuce Strike Fund
UFWOC
Box 130
Delano, California
93215
