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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1981)
Boycott Libby's, pickers say Campbell and Libby products should be boycot ted, says the founder and president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. Baldemar Velasquez was in Eugene to speak at a monthly Peace and Justice Forum Thursday night sponsored by Clergy and Laity Concerned. Velasquez is advocating the boycott after negotiations and a three-year strike failed to bring better pay and better working conditions to farm workers in the Midwest. Low wages, no benefits, poor housing conditions and health dangers due to chemicals used on crops have sent farmworker organizations seeking collective bargaining agreements with growers and companies. A successful boycott might enable farm workers to “feed, clothe and educate our families,” Velasquez said. Velasquez says the strike failed because companies can obtain tomatoes and cucumbers from California, while larger growers can use mechanical harvesters in lieu of pickers if they produce a drier, less nutritious tomato. But Velasquez says most of the 3,400 union members are still on strike. The FLOC’s effort in the Midwest is part of the nationwide effort to change the agricultural system by creating a national organization. Currently, : legislation for worker’s rights J specifically excludes farm- J workers. "We’re talking about | a public policy that has gone 1 unchanged since the Civil p War," Velasquez says. IFC gives group lawsuit funds The Incidental Fee Com mittee Thursday allowed the Physically Limited Union of Students to pool most of its 1981-82 funds to pursue a lawsuit alleging higher educaton system violations of equal access laws for disabled students. PLUS director Chester Falter initially asked for a hearing next week for ad ditional funds but was told by IFC members and ASUO budget director Alan Con treras funds are unavailable. “Even if there is money, we wouldn’t be able to give it to you. It would be vetoed by the exec (ASUO Executive),” vice chairer Xavier Romano said about an alternate request for funds. Enrollment is down and probably will not be up winter term, meaning less incidental fees coming in, Contreras explained. “Extra” funds would reimburse 2 percent cuts in ASUO program budgets announced Tuesday The committee also ap proved 1982-83 goals for PLUS and the Undergraduate Economics Association. Representatives of the University chapter of American Advertising Federation failed to appear for its hearing. In other business, the committee approved a resolution calling for com plete financial disclosures by ASUO-funded organizations. Hearing set on WOW Hail fate Eugenes WOW Hall, famous for its performing arts activities, has reached a sink or swim situation. WOW Hall, which became the publically controlled, non profit Community Center for the Performing Arts in 1975, has been “in a hole” finan cially from the beginning, says CCPA board chairer Jan Bohman. But operating losses in fiscal year 1981-82 and the resignation of executive board director Carol Caulk have forced the CCPA's directors to consider several options - including the possible sale of the WOW Hall building. UNIVERSITY THEATRE PRESENTS EURIPIDES NOVEMBER 208.21 DECEMBER 2345 0CX) IN TH( K)f< TK KI1N AND INFORMATION ( All Uot O 686-4101 Before the board takes any action, however, it is holding a public hearing to discuss options. The hearing will be held Monday at 7 p.m, in the hall, located at West Eighth Avenue and Lincoln Street. Options include leasing or selling the hall and raising the $22,000 balance of the WOW Hall’s $220,000 mortgage. “We need to raise between $22,000 and $50,000. That would definitely do it,’’ Bohman says. “No arts association ex pects to operate without a deficit.” Bohman says her group is not able to meet monthly expenses and staff i operating costs. “We re just \ not able to make it all.” * The general poor economy J is forcing fewer people to 1 attend concerts or to promote ! them, she says. The end result [ is fewer dollars coming in to i meet costs. Bohman says the WOW Hall has provided a “wide variety of low-cost performances,” and the CCPA would like to do “even more.” “I think it would be a real loss,” she says of the sale or lease of the building. an evening of Dawg music with The David Grismao Quartet h/ with special guest Robbie Basho Sunday. 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