Farm Labor Law Enacted in California
Gov. Edmund Brown Jr signed the farm labor bill urging federal adoption as a national model. The measure creates state supervised secret ballot elections, outlaws recognitional strikes, allows secondary boycotts, and takes effect August 28 to cover fall harvests in Salinas Valley and San Joaquin Valley. Chavez praised it as the best labor law yet.
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Sacramento
Calif
Edmund Brown Jr
California
Brown
Salinas Valley
San Joaquin Valley
Chavez
E & J Gallo
Gallo
Witness For Saxe Trial Walks Away From Prison
FBI says escape of Robert Valeri from Chester County Prison weakens case against Susan Saxe in the Boston and Philadelphia robberies tied to Weather Underground. Valeri testified in the Bell Savings Bank heist trial. three others convicted already. Powers remains at large as authorities link the crimes to radical activities.
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Philadelphia
FBI
Robert Valeri
Susan Saxe
Saxe
Valeri
Chester County
Thomas Frame
Miss Saxe
Bell Savings and Loan Association
Waters
Pennsylvania
el Reno
Okla
Evanston
Massachusetts
Boston
Katherine Ann Powers
Denver
Weather Underground
Kennedy Defends Kennedys Amid Casto Plot Allegations
Senator Edward Kennedy in New York rejects links between his brothers and CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro. He says no direct evidence ties them and notes Rockefeller Commission findings await. Kennedy also declines 1976 Democratic presidential nomination.
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New York
Edward Kennedy
Fidel Castro
Massachusetts
Democrat
Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Central
Inttelligence Agency
Castro
Rockefeller Commission
CLA
Robert Kennedy
Kennedys
Costa
American Cancer Society
Gurney Aide Groot Pleads Guilty Tests Against Ex-Senator
James L. Groot former top aide to Sen. Edward Gurney pleaded guilty in a bribery conspiracy case involving a $233,000 slush fund and agreed to testify against Gurney. He admitted taking $50,000 from fund raiser Larry Williams and faced leniency in exchange for truthful testimony.
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Tampa
Fla
James L. Groot
Edward Gurney
Groot
Gurney
Senate
Builey
Joseph Bastien
K. Wayne Swiger
Ralph Koontz
Een
Star
Larry Williams
Florida
Williams
Washington
Wiliams
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Hugh C. Tosteson
Puerto Rico
Tosteson
San Juan
Scripps Howard Newspapers
Hugh
Colegio
San Jose
San German
Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers of America
The
Teamsters Union
Stony Island
Detroit River
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Detroit
U.S
Jeffrey Miller
Albany, N
Brandeis University
Waltham, Mass
Somerville
Mass
Palaman Francis Y. Schroeder
Northwest Fabrics
Edgewood Plaza
Anderson
Kenne Kennedy Brothers
Gurney Aide
Winter Park
George Anderson
Earl M. Duke
Crittenden
Republican Party
Jim Groot
Ben Krentzman
Omaha
Neh
United States
Krentzman
Warcumis
Winacus
Dune
Hoyt Wright
Dad
Farah
West
Meridian Plaza
Moundsmall
Muncie Mall
God
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