Halloween visitors to a See’s Candies store in the Seattle area included a large green goblin (ILWU longshore Local 19’s Keith Lowe) and friend (ILWU marine clerks’ Local 52 BA Andrea Stuller) who warned customers that Blue Diamond almonds were lurking inside those delicious confections. Volunteers up and down the Coast visited See’s stores around Halloween. They asked the candy company to use its influence as a big Blue Diamond customer and encourage the almond company to agree to a free and fair union election procedure for the workers at its Sacramento plant.

In Portland, “Rosie the Riveter” paid See’s a visit, warning customers that the almonds in their candy came from working women who can’t get respect from those heartless, anti-union Blue Diamond executives in Sacramento. In downtown San Francisco, the Almond Avenger and Sparkles the Clown joined the other volunteers who talked to hundreds of See’s customers, many of whom were supportive.