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Stop and Shop Yields; Grape Protestors Win

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Stop and Shop, the largest supermarket chain in New England, yesterday agreed to buy no more Giumarra grapes until the California farm workers national boycott against Giumarra has ended.

The farm workers, organized by the AFL-CIO, began the national boycott in late August after Giumarra, the world's largest producer of fresh grapes, refused to let them unionize.

James R. Morrell 2G attributed the achievement to heavy daily picketing, mainly by SDS, of the more than one dozen Stop and Shop stores in the greater Boston area.

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