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Since 1962, Cesar Chavez has been creating the Unit. . ed Form Workers Organizing Committse, AFL-CIO, fo bring American larm workers eut of 8 cantury of poverty and peternalism. ° Farm workers feed America ond in raturn receive the lowes? woge ($2700 @ year—family income), the most mise end hazardous working conditions (300% higher accident rate, poisoning from pesticides), and a file expectancy ot 49 years—21 years less than anyone else. Deliberately excluded from the protection ef the National Labor Asiations Act ef 1935, form workers are forcad fo resort te strike and boycott to ebtain the right to fair wages and safe working conditions, Most conglomerate growers refuse to talk with farm workers about their rights, On September 16, 1970, » Sal- inas, 6. i te the lettuce Some say this lettuce strike and boycott is » fight between two unions. The fact is: the dispute betw two unions has been settied for months. A definite statement of that settlement came at the October mesting between AFL-CIO President George Meany and Frank Fitzsimmons, acting President ef the interna- otherhood ef Teamsters. According te the October 27, 1970, LOS ANGELES TIMES, “The Teamsters will been active in for years, and the Farm Workers Union will stay-with thi ers.” The teamsiers' position now is not to sign any more contracts covering tield workers, to give recisions of their contracts lo any grower who asks for them, and to refrain (rom any enforcement ef field-worker.con- tracts, in with the help of citizens jd economic allies. Where do This sirugcie, then, like the grape strike a cet which the farm w across the nation, is a st corporate growers snd their pewertul politics! you stand in this moi ue of human rights? PLEASE SUPPORT THE BOYCOTT QF LETTUCE FROM CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO WHICH DOES NOT BEAR THE UNITED FARM WORKERS’ AZTEC EAGLE UN-ION LABEL ff you want more information, contacts CINCINNATI CITIZENS FOR THE UNITED FARM WORKERS 1018 Vine Street, Rim, 106 Phone: 621-1846, 621-9432 Kani Frat, Chrm,— Rev. Jann Bank, Merced Valder and George Sheriden, UFWOC Sia “ON ‘ —— raz