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...protest got nowhere: a resolution calling on Stevens to explain its labor policies drew only 6% of the shareholder votes. But the demonstration was only part of the union attack. In mid-1976 ACTWU announced a nationwide boycott of Stevens products and in the past few months it has intensified the effort. With the support of church, student and civil rights groups, it hopes to call on community leaders and get them to urge retailers to take Stevens goods off the shelves. This is the same tactic, and the same coalition, that broke the impassioned resistance to unionism of Farah...
...member panel of freshmen that voted last month to end the six-year student boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities did not nominate anyone to the CRR at a panel meeting last week, but the reasons were pragmatic rather than ideological...
Although the freshmen have decided it is more effective to reform the CRR from inside the committee than through the traditional boycott, only six panel members showed up for the meeting Thursday night. So it still isn't clear what conditions, if any, the panel will attach to freshmen participation in the CRR, and won't be until the group's Tuesday meeting, when all 15 members may be present...
...Chicana women workers at the Farah pants factory in Texas won a two-year strike in 1974, to get recognition of the right to organize. While the women strikers had aid from support committees and a national boycott, it was again the tenacity and determination of these women workers which made victory possible...
...Historians] manage to discuss the reform of insane asylums in the first half of the 19th century without mentioning Dorothea Dix, muckraking without mentioning Ida Tarbell, and the Montgomery bus boycott without mentioning Rosa Parks...