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I'm right now, as I've mentioned before, too many people. You have Teamsters and other, uh, hired thugs singing on bullhorns in certain areas where grapes are being fixing to Mexican American farm workers. Bye bye, Blackbird. You have people that are armed with weapons. You have all

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kinds of you have a much more serious confrontation that is being faced. Everyone knows the United Farm Workers Union has remained and has always been a nonviolent organization. And yet violence off that nature is being perpetrated against them. I think the situation is so serious that

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it calls for this kind of move. Yeah, last because in the past things This is God who? Boy? Oh boy, e U. For several years now, Safeway has steadfastly resisted the demands of the United Farm Workers to sell Onley grapes picked by their union

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spokesman for the pickets here say they are prepared for a long fight and will extend the boycott to five other Safeway stores in Oakland. Ben Williams, Eyewitness News from Oakland