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Louis Lucas, a major grower of table grapes in Chavez's California base in Delano, said of Shultz's plan: "I think he is on the right track" vim But the United Automobile Workers' Walter Reuther found "no moral or economic justification" for separating farm workers-from NLRB coverage. Reuther, a longtime supporter of Chavez, complained: "The Farm Labor Relations Board proposed by the Secretary would operate under law so filled with exclusions and fishhooks as to render it meaningless. We call on the President to reconsider his position." In dozens of cities around the U.S. last weekend, Chavez's United Farm Workers Organizing Committee managed to drum up healthy turnouts for rallies in observance of International Boycott Day. Chavez supporters plan to continue their boycott of stores and supermarkets handling California grapes. Both growers and strikers have now dug into inflexible positions, and there is small chance that either the Government or the parties concerned will soon resolve so old and hurtful a dispute.