Word: farah
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...behavior sometimes invites squabbles like the New York magazine one. For four years, she has carried on a rather public liaison with Warren Hoge, city editor of the New York Post. Once, in an interview with another Washington newsman, she proudly described her story about Iran's Empress Farah this way: "It took me four days to get the interview, and then I had to promise my body over and over to the higher...
...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...
...other points in the ad are similarly vague. "Opportunities for advancement," "modern manufacturing plants," and "dignity and respect" all look nice in print, but these items were evidently not abundant enough to prevent 3000 Farah workers from walking out 15 months...
Moreover, the boycott triggered by that initial walkout has spread from coast-to-coast, forced down the price of Farah stock, and clearly shoved the Company up against the wall. How else to explain the surprising appearance of this ad in a newspaper some 2000 miles from the Company's plants in El Paso, Texas...
...reference to "freedom of choice" is its most obnoxious aspect. In practice, this phrase means the freedom for the Farah ownership to choose that their employees not unionize...