Word: farah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...keeping with The Crimson's policy of attempting to air all sides of important questions, the ad has been run, although we regard it as a feeble attempt to bolster Farah's untenable position...
...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...
...Farah ad cites "an above average wage scale" as one of the benefits that accrue to fortunate Farah workers. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers, in response, have said that Farah has testified before the National Labor Reltions Board that it pays an average hourly wage of $1.80. The ad cites no figures, so it must be assumed that the Company has a nineteenth century definition for average wage...
...Pahlavi, Aryamehr, Shahanshah of Iran, scion of 2,500 years of Persian power and self-appointed (with U.S. encouragement) policeman of the Persian Gulf. He had two private sessions totaling three hours in the President's Oval Office. Then the Shah, 53, and his stunning third wife, Empress Farah, 34, were feted by the President at a state dinner in the White House (the 115 guests included a gusher of U.S. oil executives), and the Nixons attended a reciprocal dinner at the Iranian embassy. Perhaps most satisfying, though, was the morning the Shah was given with officials...