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a ape Po eb ae yt Tt is now time for a new offensive against Dow Chemical and this time the workers are leading it. In the past we have always known Dow as an oppressor of: Tthe consumer - We are continually deluged with mronaganda to package everythinoe anain and aqain. wmevar victims - Dow supnlie: the U.S. Denartment of Defense with napalm, defoliants and other agents used in chemical warfare. WB2ird world peorles - Viehly nnisonous herbicides and insecticides are sold on the onen market in Latin America without the safety precautions indicated on the tabel as is required for the same nroducts when sold in the' us. SBthe environment - Dow produces highly vollutant plastics and pesticides. Kow we discover that in addition to these offenses acainst the neonle, Dow Chemi- cai is a leader in the oppression of micrant farm workers. 17,900 acres of lettuce owned by Now and onerated by Dud Antle, Inc. have been struck by farm workers seek- ing decent wanes and working conditions as well as protection fro7 dangerous ovesti- Y cides. Antle is the world’s second laraest lettuce shinper: Dow “roduces many of : the deadly pesticides the farm workers want outlawed or nut under control. This produces a powerful bloc with which to break a strike amon oor farm workers. Dow provides Atle with all his wrapners, boxes, and chemicals and Tots of money. As a result Dow virtually controls Antle, aes To break the farm workers! strike, Antle secured an injunction to prohibit the — union, the United Farm Workers Oraanizinn Committee, from nickettina, leafletting, or talking to his employees. A similar injunction nrohibits the union from boycott- ina Bud Antle products and in fact orders Cesar Chavez, union director. to public- ly announce that neonle should buv Bud Antle products. Chavez has refused and so has been summoned to court December 4th to show cause whv he should not immediately be imprisoned for contermt of court. Dow has created a showdown with the farm workers who are trying to defend their rights as men. They are-readv. Sumnort the farm workers in their liberation struaale against carnorate aari-business. te ene mee e Soycott a1] Dow nrnducts. Povcott Bud Antle venetables. Write letters of indiana- tion to H.D. Doan, President, Row Chemical Corn., Midland, “ichiaan, 48649. Call the Washinston, 0.C. office dailv at 296-1915, Hein nicket the D.C. office at the Cyecutive Cuildina, 15th % L YY an bednesdav, Dec.2 from 11 a.m, to } nim. only bey ‘ Farm Workers Action Committee uation Lettuce mee phone 527-0510