Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noisiest spot along the gradually integrating border of the Deep South last week was the little (pop. 2,200) coalmining and farming community of Clay, Ky. There white students continued to boycott the Clay school while National Guardsmen and state troopers escorted three frightened Negro children into the nearly deserted school building each morning...
...since then, the strike has degenerated into the nation's oldest, ugliest major labor dispute, bringing vandalism, bloodshed and violence to the pretty beer-and-bockwurst city of Sheboygan (TIME, April 18, 1955). Unable to budge Kohler from its adamant stand, the U.A.W. is now moving the biggest boycott in U.S. Jiistory against the company. All over the land the U.A.W. is preaching to other unions and pressuring plumbing contractors with the message: "Don't buy Kohler...
Cloak & Dagger. Clearly the boycott is hurting Kohler in some areas. As soon as the union hears from its agents inside the plant that Kohler has landed a large order, a U.A.W. stump man is sent to badger the prospective buyer. Last December Los Angeles' State Plumbing & Heating Co. ordered $100,000 worth of Kohler plumbing for an addition to the Los Angeles County General Hospital. Immediately, State's President E. J. Weinberger was solicited by the local plumbers' union to pressure Kohler to settle its differences. Fearful that his plumbers would slow down, Weinberger canceled...
...stronghold. Construction of St. Mark's Catholic parochial school there was held up for two days by pickets until the contractor, N. A. Thomas of Racine, trucked away 34 pieces of Kohler plumbing worth $3,500. In some areas even state and municipal governments have hopped on the boycott bandwagon. The Massachusetts Legislature and Boston's City Council condemned purchases from Kohler. So have the councils of Bridgeport, Waterbury, and Ansonia, Conn., and Lincoln Park, Mich...
Principles & Precedents. How hard the boycott really hits Kohler is uncertain, for the family-owned firm publishes no earnings report. The U.A.W. said that Kohler sales are down 37% since the boycott began last November.* Still, Kohler now claims to have 2,800 nonstrikers at work v. 3,300 before the strike, many of them on overtime. The company also says it sells everything it can make, earned more last year than in the strike's first year...