California IN BRIEF : BAKERSFIELD : Showing of UFW Film Restricted

A Kern County judge has prohibited the United Farm Workers union from using scenes of cancer-stricken children in a film promoting its table grape boycott. The film urges people to boycott California table grapes until growers stop using certain pesticides. The UFW claims the use of pesticides is linked to a cluster of childhood cancer cases in the Kern County community of McFarland. Three childhood cancer victims and their mothers sued the UFW to stop the union’s use of television footage shot of them in the union’s film. Bakersfield Superior Court Judge James G. Bowles’ ruling said a film showing the children could not be used to promote the boycott.