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Three clerics in the Russian Orthodox Church visited the Divinity School yesterday and attracted a picket line outside the Faculty Club made up of members of a Christian organization who alleged that the churchman were secret police agents...
...work under Teamster contracts do so out of economic necessity, not free choice. Many, finding the contract unenforced, have refused to pay dues. When Frank Fitzsimmons, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, went to speak in Salinas. Calif... in June 1974. "Teamster" lettuce workers left the fields to picket his conference. When Cesar Chavez went to Salinas five days later, 3500 "Teamster" lettuce workers went to a UFW rally...
...against bad working conditions, poor material benefits, and racism. We have gone to stores in the Harvard Square area, asking them to stop selling Gallo wine, and all have agreed except the Harvard provision Co. The boycott can only be effective if the stores cooperate; it is impossible to picket against the wine 24 hours a day. Since it is the sores that profit from the sale of Gallo wine, they must make the decision to stop selling it, and when they refuse, it is our job to reach their customers, so that together, we can put economic pressure...
...There is not right to protest within a university building in such a way that any university activity is disrupted. The administration, however, may wish to permit some symbolic dissent within a building but outside the meeting room, for example, a single picket or a distributor of handbills...
...supporters, also, were willing to make concessions before the case came to trial--most importantly, limiting to six the number of people who could picket at one time...