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...codes that have been adapted only require companies to pay the minimum wage, which is often appallingly low and often forces the worker to choose between food and clothing," said Daniel M. Hennefeld '99, a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) steering committee...
...PSLM, an activist group within the Phillips Brooks House Association, promotes social and economic justice and supports organized labor...
Hennefeld said about 20 PSLM members attended the 1 p.m. rally. They handed out leaflets and chanted "no sweat" to protest sweatshops, "living wage" to call for a wage high enough for workers to pay for basic needs, and "full disclosure" for the full disclosure of information about the factories...
Yesterday's rally is the latest in a series of on-campus anti-sweatshop protests. In October, PSLM rallied for full disclosure. In April, more than 100 students gathered to call attention to sweatshop conditions in factories manufacturing Harvard insignia clothing...
Harvard's PSLM was largely responsible for bringing the conference to the school. At present, Harvard does not have an official DSA chapter. According to Jessica Shearer, a DSA member, one of the tangential aims of bringing the conference to the College this weekend is to generate enough interest to set up a chapter at Harvard...