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ne Rare | ae: C. A campaiga for a consumer «pea fs + boveott of California grapes was 2s ‘ell yout tore manager munched in B.C. last week when t's bandle these scab prapee the B.C. Federation of Labor's Join eur consurser picket lines. execulive council decided 1 320 rear friecés aud greape eat Give full support tothe Calilormia te ay) Causernin sropen eps peckers who sppealed to Another leaflet issuec by the C. labor for support. B.C. Federation of Labor on Scpport trom B.C.'s labor Sebi rk federation came alter 2-year. PeMail af te grape workers eld Tony Mendez. an orgatuzer for the United Farm Workers in Caifornia, described the incredible conditons faced by {6 Erape workers. It povais out | pickers, The grape workers Rave sel up headquarters in Vancouver to promote the consumer boycott and seek support for their fight. A leaflet being widely distributed in B.C, heated, “Don't muy scab Califortua.”* says: eat a grape you approve of families living on $115 per Month, poor education for our , children. You believe in slavery, You condema poor workers. “California grape farm workers have now been on sirike for 34 months for not oaly wages, . but for decent living conditions. Grapes are picked under slave conditions ubat still exist is the tweeuels century. “A California grape grower worn, Yor a tamily of Son $2,500 a year, which us below U.S. poverty level. +“Farm workers have no rights- no laws - no protection from the Federal sovernment - miserable lavlog euratitvons."* ‘Tre leaflet conctudes with an appre! io ve 7osue to support the grape voraera im their struggle for jusuce: path. eapem ad Qty Ree IW is rina d 1) WG a grape workers are compelled lo support a family em $215 @ moot, Ust some hase ‘deen jailed, (or exercising tres specch, shot, besten up, and ren own, The BCFL lezflat points out ibat grapes sols in Vancouver have buen picked by minke breakers. Under the leeJershiy of Cesar Chavez, the United Farm + Workers Org.razing Cammuttee, AFL-CIO. waged a valiant ‘struggle lo improve tbe lot of California farm workers against the economically powerful and teactionary biz growers. Thcy won partial success in the wine ¢ Grape indusuy in Cabforzis. ‘Now the campsiza bas turned to the growers of table grazes, and 3s happened before, the growers have adopied an adamant Pesition, ‘They have refused io meet with the union, have imported aeab labor, union orzcnizera “have bees barassec aod physically attacked. New the workers have takec their mpaign to the people af the U.S. and Canada, Fartser informztiea sbect ther sirescta a= the tayeon af Calleraia saps in avcciable by phoning the Vanceaver Laber \ Council, TR S2qp2.