Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dispute over the Coop's selling of General Electric products will come to a head at the Coop's Board of Directors meeting Wednesday, when Coop Director Allen K. Austin will propose a boycott...
About 7 Cambridge policemen were called out, but they merely instructed the students not to block the sidewalk. Students near the door held signs stating that "Hazen's is elitist." They asked potential customers to join the boycott...
Student congress president Thomas Doherty called upon students to boycott classes to protest the suspensions. He claimed that a majority already supported the strike and had begun skipping classes Friday. Other were a bit more guarded. "We'll have to wait until Monday to see if the strike develops," one student said...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. has supported so many boycotts by member unions against employers that last summer President George Meany made a little joke about it. A loyal unionist's ultimate treason, he said, would be to eat grapes while flying over West Virginia in a National Airlines plane burning Shell gasoline. At that time, for various reasons, unions were battling against National, Shell, the growers of California table grapes and the state of West Virginia. But the A.F.L.-C.I.O. had never organized a boycott on its own-until last week. Then, on the first day of the Christmas shopping season...
...reason, of course, was the six-week-old strike against G.E. Whether the boycott will force the company to budge remains to be seen. Union boycotts generally have been ineffective. Indeed, at the scheduled start of the G.E. boycott on the day after Thanksgiving, no pickets showed up in major cities, though the unions promise that there will be many this week. Its determination is a sign of the growing bitterness in U.S. labor relations. Union men, whose pay raises in the past few years have barely kept pace with price boosts, increasingly feel that corporations and the Government...