Safeway boycott set
Leaders of the 4-year-old grape boycott have called for a National Boycott Safeway Day May 10.
"Safeway Stores is the second largest food store chain in the country and handles over $4 million of California grapes a year," said Ramon Pasillas, United Farm Workers Organizing committee representative from Delano, Calif.
Pasillas said twelve of the wine grape growers have recognized the union but the growers of table grapes have so far refused to heed the strikers pleas for higher wages, sanitary conditions, decent housing and insurance benefits.
"They're fighting us with everything they've got," Pasillas said. "They have money and political muscle.
"We're not protected by any laws, that's why we are trying to bring economic pressure on the growers and force them to recognize the union."
He said grape boycottts have been successful in many cities including New York, Chicago and Detroit, and that grapes are no longer sold in those cities.
Petitions, circulating for a month, have received nearly 100,000 signatures to send to Safeway headquarters in Oakland, Calif., Pasillas said.
The growers retaliate by
Pasillas said the first harvest of grapes will be around June 1, and the workers were preparing for strikes in Arizona and California about the same time.
sending more grapes to areas where there are no farm worker organizers, he added.
AAUP surveys students on academic, social life
An open report concerning a recent survey of student opinions on life at KU will be presented at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Cesar Chavez, director of the California grape strike, has moved to strike to the Coachello vineyards near the Mexican border. Pasillas said.
The survey was conducted by the Committee of Student Affairs of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
It contains nearly 200 questions seeking opinions on the quality of academic and social life at KU, the distinguishing features of good and bad courses and instructors, the role of the University in society and student participation in University affairs.
Typical of some of the questions asked in the survey are:
- How much influence should students have in deciding long-range University policy?
- Do you approve of the ROTC program at KU?
- Do you agree that universities should become centers for the radical reform of society?
The questionnaire was designed for the committee by graduate students in the department of social psychology under the supervision of Howard Baumgartel, professor of psychology, and was distributed and collected by the efforts of David Holden, Winona, Minn., graduate student in English.
The program tomorrow will begin with a brief presentation
by Arthur Skidmore, assistant professor of philosophy and chairman of the committee, of results at a preliminary level of analysis. Discussion concerning the report will follow, led by a small panel of committee members. Questions and comments from the audience are expected and encouraged.
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"Coachello is only 90 miles from the U.S.-Mexican border and it is easy for strikebreakers to come in," he said.
The meeting is open to students and the public.
Pasillas said "The immigration officials close their eyes when the 'wetbacks' enter the United States because it's against federal and state law to bring in strikebreakers."
Pasillas said he hoped that the students would be able to help picket stores May 10, and attend a really in Kansas City that evening.
Those wishing information may call Dave Goetze, Prairie Village sophomore, at VI2-6826.
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Two seminars and a buffet dinner were included in the program. Francis Heller, dean of faculties, spoke at the dinner before the planned program.
The KU Accounting Society, in cooperation with the Kansas City Chapter of the National Association of Accountants, held its annual Accountants' Day Monday.
KU Accounting Society holds annual banquet
Fifty upper class accounting students were guests at the dinner of National Association of Accountants and public accounting practitioners, and accounting classes were dismissed Monday afternoon for students who attended seminar sessions.
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