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...letter may have been sensible from the standpoint of an executive who must get along with the Arabs, but as could easily have been predicted, it was a public-relations disaster. Californians promptly began a grass-roots boycott of Standard's Chevron gas stations. A group of 30 pickets, including several Jews for Jesus, marched outside Standard's San Francisco headquarters; some advocated burning Chevron credit cards. One night bags of red dye, symbolizing blood, were spattered against the headquarters building; an anonymous caller told the Associated Press that the act was designed to get Standard to retract...
...Massachusetts House of Representatives withdrew its support for the United Farm Workers union boycott of non-union grapes and lettuce yesterday...
...boycott of all Farah products must continue until the Company's workers win what they consider a fair settlement of their legitimate grievances. We commend the Harvard Coop and the J. August company for ending their orders of Farah products, and we urge them to take their present stocks of Farah products off the shelves until the dispute is settled...
Moreover, the boycott triggered by that initial walkout has spread from coast-to-coast, forced down the price of Farah stock, and clearly shoved the Company up against the wall. How else to explain the surprising appearance of this ad in a newspaper some 2000 miles from the Company's plants in El Paso, Texas...
Union-busting is a particularly repellent strategy the rich and the powerful use to retain their supremacy. This strategy must continue to be blocked. Boston's Humberto Cardinal Medieros and the leaders of the Massachusetts state federations of Jews and Protestants have endorsed the boycott. We urge that the boycott continue...