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Three thousand Farah workers, most of them Chicanos and many of them women, walked out of Farah's El Paso plant 17 months ago, striking for better wages, work conditions, and union representation. That fact, despite a flurry of Farah propaganda to the contrary, indicates that something clearly is wrong in El Paso...
SEVERAL Harvard Square-area stores -- including the Harvard Cooperative Society and the J. August Company--over the summer agreed to cooperate with the ongoing boycott against the Farah Pants Company. They refused to order Farah slacks until a labor dispute at Farah's El Paso, Tex., plant is settled. The Coop and J. August should be commended for this decision and other Boston-area stores should follow suit. Additionally, students and other consumers should continue to respect the boycott...
Mary Lassen '74, organizer of NAM's lettuce boycott, urged students at last night's meeting to support the United Farm Workers, campaign against non-union lettuce and against stores that sell Farah pants...
...Farah, the largest manufacturer of men's pants in the country, is allegedly engaged in an antiunion campaign in Texas and New Mexico...
...groups already engaged in boycotting items (Gulf Oil, grapes, iceberg lettuce, Farah pants) saw some action this summer. Following what Howard W. Davis, general manager of the Harvard Cooperative Society, called "continuous and intense concern" of Coop members, the Coop decided July 19 to discontinue its annual $100,000 in purchases from Farah clothing. On July 23, J. August, a Harvard Square clothier, also discontinued its orders. Almy's clothing store in Central Square dropped its order from over $1 million to under $100,000 as a result of informal discussions with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union...