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...major clothing manufacturers based in the Southwest should follow Farah's lead and give all their laborers-- Chicano, Indian, black and white--the right to unionize freely. This especially applies to those firms that were lucky enough to have escaped the Amalgamated boycott and have prospered, perhaps unfairly, at Farah's expense. Unionization will prevent large companies from moving from one region of the country to another in order to exploit cheap labor in runaway shops...
...most successful of the rock comics are Richard ("Cheech") Marin, 27, and Tommy Chong, 33, an energetic Chicano-Chinese duo whose freakish cast of characterizations includes Sister Mary Elephant, Ashley Roachclip, and Buster the Body Crab. Their first two albums have sold 4 million copies so far, and their newest, Los Cochinos, jumped onto the pop charts at 22, a feat usually accomplished only by top rockers. But several others are stalking comedy's new-found rock audience in their wake...
...Chicano strikers first walked out on May 10, 1972, to protest the dismissal of six workers who were attempting to organize a union in one of Farah's El Paso, Texas, plants...
...shutdowns are the result of an 18-month and nation-wide boycott against Farah led by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union. The union is currently attempting to organize 3000 Farah workers, 85 per cent of whom are Chicano women...
However, the Harvard Cooperative Society will continue the boycott of Farah merchandise which it started in July. "We cannot just sit back and not listen to our own members who have ambitiously supported the Chicano movement, even though they are a minority," Howard W. Davis, general manager of the Coop, said this summer