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Frank Steinhart, operations vice-president of Brentano's Books, which owns Phillips, flew to Boston yesterday and met with five Phillips clerks and the organizer, Bruce McMurray, a 1968 Ed School graduate...
...When Brentano's bought Phillips," claims Ann Williams '69-2, a former Brentano clerk and a member of the labor committee, "the wage scale at Phillips was higher than it is now. Since then," she said, "they have hired new people at a lower rate of minimum wage...
...Brentano office in New York was unavailable for comment on the group's charges. The Phillips store manager, Margaret Specht, said only that she expected "an amicable settlement...
Phillips is presently a subsidiary of Brentano's Books, whose New York office is in control of local labor policy. Of Brentano's 25 national stores, only the New York and Boston branches are unionized...
...threat of a picket line, however, will be the most effective," said Miss Williams. "Brentano's president, Leonard Schwartz, is sensitive about the store's image as a community center...