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About 2000 clothing workers and labor officials marched outside Boston's largest department stores yesterday to demonstrate support for striking Farah workers and for a nationwide boycott of Farah pants...
...Farah management secured a court order four months ago that required pickets to remain 50 feet apart. Over 700 employees have been arrested, ostensibly for violating this order. The alleged violations are a misdemeanor and are reported to carry a usual bail of $25. However, $400 has been the bail imposed on each arrested worker...
Labor officials allege that Farah is disregarding a Federal injunction against the firings, and that it is harassing Chicano strikers with armed guards with unmuzzled police dogs...
...clothing workers boycott has been joined by a Citizens Committee for Justice for Farah Workers, chaired by Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.). Included among the group's membership are Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.). Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54, (D-Mass.). Cesar Chavez, Representative Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.), New York Mayor John V. Lindsay and Morris B. Abrams, former president of Brandeis College...
Emily Penzell, coordinator of the committee, said yesterday that Farah sales have dropped 43 per cent nationwide since the beginning of the strike...