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...Washington, D.C., the Consumer Federation of America is setting up a "retail employees price watch" to encourage reticent clerks, buyers and checkers to blow the whistle-anonymously-on companies that surreptitiously boost prices. Mark Frederiksen, one of Ralph Nader's consumer watch-birds, is feeding the pre-and post-freeze price lists of 77 Washington-area stores into a computer. The print-outs will be turned over to consumer groups and labor unions. In New York City, 1,000 shop stewards of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees descended on local supermarkets last week to monitor...
...group of Washington lawyers sponsored by Ralph Nader took on General Motors and inaugurated the consumer movement for corporate social responsibility...
Opinion v. Opinion. Myth No. 3: America is "the citadel of reaction." Revel's reply: Nothing quite as unreactionary as Ralph Nader or the mass opposition to Viet Nam has ever happened in Europe...
...target seems too large or formidable for Ralph Nader's lance. The latest to feel its thrust is the state of California. A team headed by the energetic consumer advocate has completed a 15-month study of the anatomy of California's land and water resources and political power. The findings are disturbing. According to the report, the nation's most fecund state is virtually controlled by a closely knit power structure that is systematically stripping California's resources for immense profits. The report claims that a mere 25 landowners-24 of them corporations-hold...
...other hand, the tax on imported goods will almost certainly raise the cost of living for many consumers, especially those who can least afford it: the poor, who buy imported clothing and shoes because they are cheap. Says Ralph Nader: "Imports are the only real competition left for many American firms." It is the low-income American, too, who will lose most in the deferral of welfare reforms and revenue sharing. Although many Americans have finally accepted the fact that the nation's "peace dividend" would be far less than once believed, few are likely to feel comfortable with...