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Cesar Chavez Calls for Strikes and Boycotts in Harvest War
Cesar Chavez leads the United Farm Workers in a clash with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters over central California grape contracts. Chavez urges nationwide supermarket boycotts and field strikes during the 1974 harvest as growers face choosing sides and violence flares in the San Joaquin Valley and Coachella.
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Joe Bigham
Associated Press
Delano
Calif
Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers of America
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Teamsters
California
San Joaquin Valley
Chavez
United Farm Workers
UFW
The
Coachella
San Joaquin