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Grape boycott recalls memories
of 1970s protests at University
By Stephen Maher
Of d» bMnU
The current grape boycott and
visit by Osar Chavez is not the
first time the issue has touched
base at the University and in
Eugene.
Sparked by the lack of a con
tract between farm workers and
grape growers, a national
boycott of non-United Farm
Workers lettuce and grapes
erupted in 1973. At the Univer
sity the EMU’s policy of buying
non-UFW lettuce sparked pro
test activities and heated
maneuverings between the ad
ministration and students.
University President Robert
Clark and EMU Director
Richard Reynolds insisted that
the University buy both UFW
and non-UFW lettuce and let
students decide which one they
preferred Students countered
that farm workers were living in
poverty and. to buy non-union
lettuce perpetuated the
problem.
"President (Mark's position
was 'freedom of choice.' ” said
Bill Lutz. Clergy and l-aity Con
cerned development director,
who was a student organizer at
the time. "Our position was
that UFW didn’t have a choice
— you either worked under
miserable conditions or you
didn't work at all."
in response, students set up
their own food stands on the
EMU terrace outside the
Fishbowl and urged students to
boycott EMU food services.
"It was something that
anyone who went into the EMU
saw," said Herb Everett, a
Eugene printer who was a stu
dent at the time and a volunteer
with the UEW.
"It was like Saturday Market.
A lot of the (present day)
organizations got their financial
starts there." Lutz said.
"We ended up sending the
UFW a couple thousand dollars,
raised people's consciousness
and cost the EMU $150,000."
Lutz said.
‘We ended up sen
ding the UFW a cou
ple thousand
dollars, raised peo
ple’s consciousness
and cost the EMU
$150,000. ’
— Bill Lutz
Everett'* wife. Nancy Bray,
also was involved in boycott ac
tivities and remembers all the
work that went into keeping the
tables going.
"People would have to get up
in the middle of the night to
make sandwiches and pick up
juice.” Bray said.
The administration countered
the student move by contacting
the Environmental Health
Department, who consequently
revoked the boycotter’s food
license. But the student pro
testers continued the food sales,
and no charges were ever filed
by the state.
Lutz recalled one incident
when a health department of
ficial visited the terrace.
“The EMU manager called
the health department on us.
and he came and found a few
minor things. And then he went
into the EMU and came out with
a big list of violations." Lutz
said.
Also at the forefront of the
protest activities were the so
called “lettuce Trials" of 1974.
In February of that year. 75
chanting fro-UFW
demonstrators appeared at a
luncheon for the Oregon
Newspaper Publishers
Organization in the EMU
Ballroom and disrupted the
featured speaker, Newsweek
columnist Shana Alexander. A
couple of days later, two of the
protesters were cited under the
Student Conduct Code for
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disrupting a University event.
‘‘The University, through the
Student Conduct Board, said it
was disruptive. So they tried
them,” Everett said.
The "lettuce Trial” was ac
tually a hearing before the
three-member Student Court.
And after seven hours the two
students were acquitted.
“There were about 300
students there — the place was
packed.” said Michael Golds
tein, a Eugene attorney who
defended the students as a
University law student at the
hearing.
“We brought a member of the
UFW executive committee to
testify, which didn’t please the
administration at all,” Everett
said. "It was a big victory for
the movement at the time.”
The second Lettuce Trial”
occurred in May of 1974. The
Student Conduct Office charged
fiye students with "misuse of
University property” for using
EMU tables on the terrace. The
second hearing also ended in
acquittal, but this time the court
condemned the administration
for a "politically motivated"
hearing.
In 1975, students took over
the old EMU television lounge
and set up a concession.
“The weather turned bad so
they decided to take over the
room and turn it into a boycott
room." Goldstein said.
“The administration was very
reluctant to throw us out
because of the support from the
students," Everett said.
A student referendum on the
lettuce issue in 1974 revealed
that 71.4 percent of the students
supported the EMU boycott.
The boycott also extended to
the community with Safeway
stores as one of the targets.
“We had a good boycott of
the stores — and had sizable
rallies," Bray said. “We'd have
several people, and we'd go up
and say. ‘We’re asking you not
to shop at Safeway.' and we'd
tell them of other stores.”
"We had a pretty good suc
cess rate at getting people to get
back in their cars and leave."
she added.
By 1975. the tide had turned
in favor of the UFW. The
California Legislature passed
the Agricultural I.abor Relations
Act. giving farm workers the
right to hold free elections on
unionization, and the UFW
began winning contracts with
growers.
In Eugene the boycott efforts
also wound down.
"It seemed like there was no
longer a need for us to be doing
what we were doing." Bray
said. "1 guess it was mostly the
passage of the act."
“As an organizer, the farm
worker movement developed a
lot of the methodology used to
day and set a standard for grass
roots organizing." Lutz said.
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