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...beginning a massive campaign to unionize Stevens and the textile industry. They plan to fight the campaign on two fronts: first, unlike previous attempts to organize a few plants at a time, the unions will try to organize in all 85 plants simultaneously. Second, a nation-wide boycott of J.P. Stevens products is beginning, aided by support from church groups, civic leaders, politicians, and many others...
...boycott is a risky tactic. First, unlike the Farah pants or Gallo wine boycotts, Stevens makes no single product. Stevens goods are sold under a variety of brand labels--eight brand names of sheets, three of towels, and carpets, hosiery and linens under a mix of labels. Supporters of the boycott will have trouble making the consumer aware of what brands not to buy. In addition, only 34 per cent of Stevens's sales are in consumer products; the rest is in sales to the government and in unfinished textiles to other manufacturers. As a result, the boycott may focus...
Surveying the nation, TIME correspondents found that those 1973 gasoline lines forced by the Arab boycott, and the plant and school closings caused by natural-gas shortages last winter, had not receded as far in public memory as many skeptics had thought. The support for Carter's crisis-mood approach cut broadly across partisan and regional lines. A surprisingly prevalent refrain was: "I'm all for it, but most other people won't go for it, and Congress will kill...
Rose said yesterday she found the heated student reaction at the meeting "unexpected," and added she thought the boycott issue was less important than the reform proposals...
...Many people wonder why the freshmen broke the boycott at all," he said, adding he thinks some committee members see the boycott as the last vestige of a "dying" student protest movement...