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...more pressure on holdouts, the National Organization for Women since February 1977 has been urging supporters to hold conventions and other meetings only in states that have approved the amendment. But the boycott has produced no new votes for the ERA and is being challenged in court by Missouri and Nevada as an illegal restraint of trade...
...itself. A sense of excitement and importance galvanized the meeting. But the eager excitement quickly turned to anxious hesitancy as it became readily apparent that the members of the minority groups meant business. The minority groups were there to force the convention to pass the clause by threatening to boycott or actively work to defeat the constitution when it comes up for ratification. The minority students participated in the floor debate, during which basic issues involved in the Bakke case now before the Supreme Court incited histrionics on both sides. The minority students found it hard to believe that there...
...could think of to crack J.P. Stevens & Co. Inc., the nation's second largest textile maker and citadel of Sunbelt antiunionism. It has used direct organizing campaigns, protests to the National Labor Relations Board and the courts, demonstrations at annual meetings of Stevens stockholders and an attempted nationwide boycott of Stevens products. Nothing has worked. Now the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union is trying a new pressure tactic: isolating Stevens from its friends in the business and financial community. Last week it won a victory of sorts by forcing two Stevens representatives off the board of directors...
...York Life Insurance Co., and E, Virgil Conway, chairman of the Seamen's Bank for Savings in New York, to quit the Stevens board. That may not force Stevens to sign a union contract quickly, but management is under financial as well as personal pressure. The boycott may be telling. Though Stevens' sales have been rising, profits dropped 14% in the past fiscal year, ending in October, and another 7% in the first quarter of fiscal 1978; the stock is selling for about $14 a share, far below its book value...
Cries arose from most of the 50 minority students who had attended the meeting to argue for the clause, and to threaten the convention with a boycott of the upcoming ratification...