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Cesar Chavez at Seiu Hall (1988) "Grapes of Wrath"
Date: 1/1/1988Call Number: CV 281Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Carol Ruth Silver a civil rights veteran and member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors speaks at a national gathering of Labor Councils. Cesar Chavez speaks detailing the “Grapes of Wrath” grape boycott that the United Farm Workers are organizing demanding that agricultural growers stop using 5 pesticides, and also demanding free elections - free of intervention and harassment. An initial pesticide ban sponsored by the growers in 1975, was reversed when Gov. George Deukmejian stopped enforcing it and opposed the expense of placing signs in the fields warning workers of active pesticide use.
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