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Rarely has a judge from the National Labor Relations Board ever spoken out so passionately over a classic confrontation between a company and a union. Last week Walter H. Maloney, an NLRB administrative law judge, ruled that the Farah Manufacturing Co. is "flouting the [National Labor Relations] act and trampling on the rights of its employees as if there were no act, no board and no Ten Commandments." The El Paso-based company, one of the nation's biggest makers of men's pants, has been struggling for 20 months with some 2,000 strikers, mainly Mexican Americans...
...SCHOOL, AMPHITHEATER E, Films about Farah workers and farmworkers, proceeds to strike support committees...
...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...
...Although Farah replaced the strikers, the company has been hard hit by a national boycott endorsed by the AFL-CIO and several large religious organization...
Plummeting sales and profits have forced Farah to close down almost half of its plants in the Southwest...