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...silent majority takes its final steps as Harvard students, a smaller more vocal group will probably linger outside the gates around the Yard to hand out anti-Cotrell and Leonard literature and to enlist support among Commencement participants. Such a group, made up of officials from the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and student sympathizers, picketted Cornell's commencement ceremonies last week. And ILGWU officials have repeatedly warned the Harvard community that if anyone wears Cotrell and Leonard gowns during Commencement, the union will set up "informational picket lines...
...International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) staff member and student organizers of the Cotrell and Leonard graduation gown boycott yesterday picketed in front of the Harvard Coop and offered a second alternative gown to graduating students...
...March 31, 1980, Coop General Manager James Argeros announced that the Coop would offer an alternate cap and gown rather than boycott those of Cotrell & Leonard. The International Ladies Garment Workers' Union had brought the issue to Argeros' attention last October in a letter informing him of the horrendous working conditions at Cotrell & Leonard and of a National Labor Relations Board's complaint against this company (for unfair labor practices). Five months later, Argeros finally responded--but not with the boycott requested by the ILGWU and by some Harvard students. He resolved instead that the Coop would provide an alternate...
...jobs to walk and could not afford cabs. Anna Mack, 53, drove to her job as a cleaning woman in Rockefeller Center and had to pay parking fees of $8.50 a night, equal to about one-fourth of her take-home pay. A quarter of the city's garment workers, most of them non white and poor, could not get to their jobs...
...what a band they have been. In the inner circle is Shapiro, son of Lithuanian immigrants (Father was a pants presser, Mother a sweatshop garment worker), who got a law degree on loans from the University of Minnesota, and says, "I've always wanted to be sure that I didn't take more from the system than I was putting back." There is Shapiro's friend Reg Jones, a British-born intellectual, who has been similarly motivated to repay the society in which he climbed to become chairman of General Electric. And Citicorp's Walter Wriston...