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meee > pe A ao | wou) - : Lag -" _ a-St3 PAaNpIAS! 3 MN ear 7 Lewinsky Wu Pia\ra4 a age foes 2 i. Loud GE id Onna iG YW A campaign for a Consumer + boveott of California grapes was erapce, Tell vem sore matte launched in B.C. last week when wet te handle these scab grapes. the B.C. Federation of Labor's ezeculive council decided to give full support to the Calilornia afape pickers who appealed tc ELC. labor for support. Sepport from B.C.‘s labor federation came alter 24+-year- old Tony Mendez. an orgaruser fer the Unmited Farm Workers in Caifornia, described the incredible conditons faced by . pickers. The grape workers have sel up headquarters ia Vancouver to promote the nore f Moree es wee ee ed Nae. s.c. O or , AUG 16 1868 on Joly eur consumer picket lines. Tell year iriecds and groups uet te buy Caiifernia scrapes.” Another leaflet issued by the B.C. Federation of Labor on behalf of the grape workers appeals to the public: “Don’t buy sour grapes."’ It says that justice and equality do no exist for grape workers. It points out consumer boycott and seek — support for their fight. widely A leaflet being distrivuted in B.C, headed, “Don't muy scab grapes from Califorma.”” says: eal a grape you approve of: families month, You condemn poor workers. “California grape farm : workers have now been on strike for %4 months for not only wages. . but ior decent living conditions. Grapes are picked under slave conditions ubal still exist is the tweelieth century. “A California grape grower makes $12 million per year on table grapes, yet. farm workers earn, for a family of sit,_gniy. . $2,500 a year, which is below ibe U.S. poverty level. “Farm workers have ao rights - no laws - no protection from the Federal povernment - + Miserable livlog curuiuons.” The leafict concludes with an Ape! i0 it pew to Support the grane -vorzera im Lheir struggle for jusuce: “When you | living on $115) per ~ poor education for our , children. You believe in slavery. « “apo os” 3 SCG tp Io “196 ; dG that grape workers are compelled to suppori a family en $315 a mooth, thal some have been jailed, for exercising tres specch, shot, besten up, aod ren } owe . ome dee The BCFL lecflet poicts out ubal grapes sold in Vancouver have been picked by sinke breakers. Vader the leeJorshiy of Cesar Chavez, the United Farm ' Workers Orgusizing Cammuitec, AFL-CIO. waped a valiapt Brugge lo improve the lot of California farm workers against the economically powerful and Teactionary big growers. They won partial success in the wine ) grape imdusuy in California. Now the campaiza bas turned lo " the growers of table grapes, and <3 happened before, the growers have adopted an scamant fasion. They hove refesed io meet with the ufuon. have imported seab labor, union aricaizers “bave beea harassed and physically attackec, Now the workers have takes their campaizn to Ge peopie of the U.S. and Canada, - Farther jaformstion sbect ther stresses == (he bo yeon af Calterada traps is avcilable by oe oe