Word: chicano
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...FARAH PANTS Company has purchased an advertisement elsewhere in this newspaper which seeks to rebut charges leveled against the Company by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, various Chicano groups, and a variety of religious leaders...
...them in the seething South Bronx, where 877 gang arrests have taken place in 1973. In Chicago the gangs have largely graduated to big-time crime as profiteers in guns, extortion and gambling. Los Angeles has nearly 200 gangs, more than 40 of which are black or Chicano. Their clashes have caused 16 deaths this year...
...Black Capitalism's impact on the economic status of America's blacks has been minimal. While thousands of nonwhite firms have been created as a result of the Government effort, only a minuscule number of new jobs have been opened for black, Puerto Rican, Indian and Chicano workers. Racial minorities, which comprise 17% of the U.S. population, still control only about 4% of the nation's businesses, and these firms have less than 1% of total business receipts. The figures have not changed perceptibly in the past four years...
...resigned due to intense and unfair pressure applied on him by Howard W. Davis, general manager of the Coop. The National Labor Relations Board began an investigation of the Coop last fall after union organizers complained they were being "harassed" by Coop security guards. A group of local Chicano students led by Carlos M. Alcala, a third-year law student, in April called the Coop "racist" for refusing to discontinue the sale of Farah slacks. Farah is the object of a nation-wide boycott organized by employees who seek to unionize Farah's main plant--whose workers are primarily Chicanos...
...formulating freshman assignments, Yale also takes into account the placement of small minority groups, such as black women or Spanish-speaking students. For example, Chicano freshmen are put in four colleges one year, in four different ones the next and so forth...