Word: pittston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are a host of political questions bearing on the Harvard community that still need to be addressed. The council should consider taking positions on the Pittston Coal dispute, Corporation elections and the proposed construction of a hotel on the site formerly occupied by the Gulf Station...
SITTING on the sidelines of the conflict is Robert G. Stone '45, a member of the Harvard Corporation, the University's governing body, who has been a director of Pittston since 1984. Pittston was no corporate saint when Stone came on board, and it hasn't improved much since. Whether Stone is unwilling or unable to influence his fellow directors, we don't know. Regardless, Stone's day of reckoning has arrived...
...Stone has three alternatives. First, he should persuade the other Pittston directors to return to the table and negotiate a new contract with the UMWA in good faith. If he is unable to do so, he should resign from the board in protest. His continued presence there would only demonstrate complicity with Pittston's union busting. If Stone is unwilling to resign from Pittston, he does not belong on the Harvard Corporation and should resign...
...case, Harvard, the 19th-largest stockholder in the Pittston Corporation, should divest itself of the 311,800 shares it holds...
Because of Stone's membership on the Pittston board and of Harvard's ownership of Pittston stock, Harvard is a silent accomplice to Pittston's efforts to break the United Mine Workers. As members of the University, it is our responsibility to express our disapproval with Harvard's complicity. We urge everyone to join the rally today...