Voters to Decide Farm Union War in California Ballot
Opponents push legislative route to grant farm laborers organizing rights as California voters weigh a 7,000 word ballot measure. Cesar Chavez and supporters call the plan a growers plot to crush the movement begun in Delano seven years ago. Debate centers on national impact and petitions signed by 388,540 voters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doug Wills
Associated Press
Sacramento
Calif
Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers Union
California
Ers
Chaved
Delano
Arizona
Kansas
Idaho
New York
Oregon
Chavez
Leroy Chatfield
Mike Gravelle
Gravelle
Chatefield
Chatfield
Complex oil and mineral leases tied to Holt Cremin firms
A lengthy docket lists numerous oil and mining lease transfers and interests in Secs 1 4 5 9 12 and nearby blocks across HGN and HaGN tracts, detailing parties such as United States Smelting Refining Mining Co Robert B Holt and Walter C Cremin with varying fractions 5 year terms and rental as low as 1.00. The record also references real estate parcels in Secs 2 9 14 21, blocks H&GN and HaGN with multiple subleases and royalties and rental figures including 60 ac 5 year terms 1.00 and 1.060. The compilation culminates with a political legal discussion on farm labor organizing strategies and related boycotts and penalties tied to state ballot measures impacting unions across several states.
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Mace
Walter NM
Walter
Waelore
Ferry R
Bass
Walter C
Perry R
Walt C
Cremin
United States
Mining Co
Robert B. Holt
H&gn
United States Smelting Refining & Mining Co
Jesse W
Bush
Adobe Oil Co
Virginia B. Hall
Et al
Walter C, Cremin
James E. Leker
Edna Crumm
Walter C. Cremin
Howard
Flag- Redfern Oil Co
Minnie McMurry
K.C. Garrett
Gulf Oil Corp
Midland National Bank
The
State National Bank of
el Paso
James R. Sullivan, Jr
Sunnyvale
Cal
Mitchell & Mitchell Properties, Inc
Farm-labor bill killed by House subcommittee vote
Washington AP A controversial national farm bargaining bill was killed 5 to 3 by a House Agriculture subcommittee. Backers said the defeat reflected concerns over bill details, not the basic principle. Rep B F Sisk the sponsor faced heavy criticism from National Farmers Organization and National Farmers Union as his revised bill altered board size and scope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Agriculture
Rep
B. F. Sisk
D-Calif
National Farmers Organization
National Farmers Union
Sisk
National Agricultural Bargaining Board
U S Russia trade pact aimed for month
Washington and Moscow declared progress in drafting a broad trade agreement during Kissinger talks. A September session in Washington aims to wrap up lend lease settlement and trade deal with tentative scope including joint oil and gas ventures and MFN tariff steps. Kissinger plans London and Paris stops after returning Friday.
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Peter G. Peterson
Nixon
Kissinger
Moscow
Communist Party
Leonid L. Brezhnev
Andrei A. Gromyko
Victory Louis
Kremlin
London
Paris
Soviet Union
Siberia
Russia
United States
D.U
Europe
Vietnam
Shriver Addresses Miami Union Endorsing McGovern Ticket
Sargent Shriver flies into Miami to address United Rubber Workers convention which endorsed the McGovern Shriver Democratic ticket. He meets leaders at a unity breakfast after touring Texas where he attacked Nixon policies and Connally. He also backed a Mexican American workers strike in El Paso and noted union endorsements in Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Sargent Shriver
United Rubber Workers
Shriver
Texas
UAW
George McGovern
Peter Bommarito
McGovern- Shriver
Democratic Party
Jamaica
Connally
San Antonio
Democratic
Nixon
National Democratic
Larry O’brien
el Paso
Houston
McGovern
Maggots Save Life of Woman After Car Crash
Denise Sprayson survived five days trapped under a car after a wreck that killed her husband Frank Sprayson and two friends. Maggots fed wounds helped prevent blood poisoning, according to Dr. G. L. Stewart, area coroner, as she shows signs of progress in hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guelph
Ont
Denise Sprayson
G.L. Stewart
Maxwell
Stewart
Sprayson
Frank
George Albert Price
Princeville
Gordon Willicombe
Hopesville
Big Spring dealer refuses to sell subcompact cars
Dewey Ray of Big Spring Texas declines to stock subcompact autos including Colt and Cricket after reviewing Insurance Institute tests and film footage. He cites extraordinary danger in head on collisions and urges consumer oriented, fact based advertising over price hype. Ray, 48, runs a Chrysler agency and says he directs buyers to other dealers if they demand subcompacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock, Ark
Dewey Ray
Big Spring
Tex
Ray
Chrysler Motors Corp
Plymouth
Dodge
Colt
Insurance Institute
Little Rock
Chrysler
Ford
Chevrolet
Toyota
Chrysler Motors
Salinas Lettuce Strike Ends After Wage Deal
A two week UFW strike against Inter Harvest Inc. ended with a wage package raising minimum pay to 2.07 per hour and top rates to 3.63 per hour. Negotiators Burciaga and company reps reached agreement Tuesday, idling about 1,500 lettuce workers in Salinas California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salinas
Calif
United Farm Workers Union
Inter Harvest Inc
UFW
David Burciaga
Burciaga
Hacked to death with sword shocks San Antonio crowd
A young man was hacked to death Wednesday night with a Japanese sword nearly three feet long in San Antonio. A teenager was seriously wounded. Police identified the victim as Richard V. Salazar, 21, with his skull split open.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
Richard V. Salazar
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Thoiry
Florida
Colorado
Farm Workers Union
Cesar
U.s.-Russia
Mitchell Sharp
China
John Connally
Ralph Nader
Philadelphia
Somerville
Mass
Westerly
R.I
Beacon
N. Y
U.S
Copenhagen
Hanoi
William
Hopalong) Boyd
Hollywood
William Boyd
Hopalong Cassidy
Garland
T. L. Holcomb
Southern Baptist Convention
Durant
Miss
Holcomb
Baptist Sunday School Board
Baptist Publications
Mills
Wilbur D. Mills
House
Ways and Means Committee
Lubbock Complex
Dallas
Lubbock
Troy W. Post
Gonzales, Tex
Texaco
Mobil Oil Distributors
Cardiff
Wales
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