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Show UTAH FARM BUREAU Page 8 January 1969 NEWS yesterday, beef today Boycott-grap- es Farm Bureaus sign on a Hereford heifer last month in Kansas City at its national convention, Grapes Today, Beef Tomorrow?, became accurate sooner than many thought. The sign now should be changed to Grapes Yesterday, Beef Today. Following an election on union representation in several Southern states in which the majority of the workers rejected the union, the AFL-CIcalled for a boycott against the meat packing firms products to pressure the firm into a union shop contract. area have removed grapes from their shelves because their executives said they feared for the personal safety of their employees and customers from threatened disand harrassment orders, ait-ifrom union pickets. cago ns It was reported last week that some Dubuque stores have removed grapes from their shelves. Shuman explained the grape boycott situation as follows (based on inf xmation from Allan Grant, California Farm Bureau president): O In another development in the grape The nationwide boycott of all California grapes perpetrated by the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) was invoked because of an alleged strike against .just one grower Giumarra Vineyards Corporation, owning and operating vineyards in the Delano area. -- boycott, Charles B. Shuman, American Farm Bureau president, has offered to pay the expenses of Chicago Mayor Daley to fly to Delano, Calif., and to view the actual living and working conditions of table grape workers. Shumans invitation camp after the mayor last month ordered city institutions not to buy California table grapes. Since the farms grapes could not be distinguished from others, the boycott was called against all California produced table grapes. This action im Shuman reported that four major food store chains in the Chi mediately affected all the state's 3,355 grape growers. The average size table grape vineyard in California is 31.7 acres and the Delano grape growers are sons and daughters of immigrants who came to America one or two generations ago from other grape growing countries (Italy, Yugoslavia, Armenia, etc.) and saved and worked to build up their vineyards. The sole purpose of the boycott Is to force grower recognition of the UFWOC and to order their workers to join the union. The grape pickers in iSe Delano area, in spite of harrassment and intimidation for 4 years, have refused to join the UFWOC. Even with $500,000 and $1 million per year available for its organizing work, the union group has a total membership of less than 2 percent (about 2,000) of all farm workers in California, largely of workers picking grapes for wineries. The issue is not about the work ers right to decide whether or not they want to join a union. The State Labor Code of California recognizes the right of every workto er including farm workers organize and bargain collectively. Delano grape pickers earned an average of between $2 and $2.1? per hour during the 1967 season. Workers who are employed nearly the year around have incomes in the $5,000 to $6,000 range. The grape pickers in the Delano area are not migrants. Nearly 90 percent of the more than 5,000 pickers hired at the peak of the harvest in Delano are residents of the area and many own their own homes and their children attend local schools. In California, there is a minimum wage for farm workers of $1.65 per hour and all farm workers must be covered by workmens compensation and disability insurance. Both farm labor housing and transportation are strictly regulated. 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