Local Resident Pickets at Kroger Store

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Picketers on the sidewalk in front of a Kroger supermarket in Oshkosh demonstrating for and against the grape boycott. Signs read, "Eat Grapes Best Medicine Against Communism," "Communism is the issue not unionism," "Eat Grapes," "Buy Grapes; Buy Freedom" and "Honor Picket Line. Meat Cutters Supports Grape Boycott." A photographer is kneeling in the foreground taking a picture. Grape boycotts in Wisconsin were organized by the local farm-worker labor union, Obreros Unidos (United Workers) an independent farm worker labor union effort in the 1960s. According to David Giffey and Jesús Salas, "opposition to the boycott picket lines came from corporations, police, politicians and right-wing counter pickets" who erroneously associated the boycott with an international Communist conspiracy. Residente local hace piquete en una tienda Kroger Manifestantes en la acera enfrente del supermercado Kroger en Oshkosh demostrando a favor y en contra del boicot de uvas. Los letreros dicen: "Come uvas, la mejor medicina contra el comunismo" ("Eat Grapes Best Medicine Against Communism"), "El comunismo es el problema no el sindicalismo" ("Communism is the issue not unionism"), "Come uvas" ("Eat Grapes"), "Compra uvas/compra la libertad" ("Buy Grapes; Buy Freedom"), y "Honora la línea de piquete: cortadores de carne apoyan el boicot de uvas" ("Honor Picket Line. Meat Cutters Supports Grape Boycott"). Un fotógrafo tomando una fotografía está arrodillas en la delantera. Los boicots de uva en Wisconsin fueron organizados por Obreros Unidos, un esfuerzo independiente del sindicato de trabajadores agrícolas durante los años 1960. De acuerdo a David Giffey y Jesús Salas "la oposición a los frentes de protesta del boicot vino por parte de corporaciones, policía, políticos y contra-frentes derechistas" quienes erróneamente identificaban el boicot como parte de una conspiración comunista internacional.