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Longshoremen in San Francisco, refusing to handle scab products, let a $300,000 shipment of Schenley's grapes rot on the docks. During the winter the California growers began a counter-boycott against those merchants who refused to carry Schenley products, a good indication that the boycott was beginning to squeeze...
Last September the National Farm Workers Association, newest in a long string of weak, consistently unsuccessful farm unions, called a strike against several Delano grape growers, among them the giant companies Schenley and DiGiorgio. There was nothing new in that. Strikes had been called before in the Central Valley, several in the thirties, and more recently in Borrego Springs and nearby Bakersfield. But none of these previous strikes had been long-lived. Some had been violent, but all had ended with the farm worker in at least as bad shape as before...
Pickets were put out, and a boycott was begun against all of the Delano growers. Through the winter, however, the strikers began to concentrate on Schenley Industries, one of the nation's largest wine-producers (Roma, Schenley...
...strike against Schenley was just holding its own until the boycott began to take effect during the winter and early spring. Help was enlisted all over the country to urge supermarkets and liquor stores to stop carrying Schenley products. The NFWA circulated bumper stickers reading "Kool-Aid Sil, Schenley...
...Schenley Industries, Inc. named an able, amiable Canadian, John Mackie, 55, as president, succeeding Lewis S. Rosenstiel, 75, who retains his position as chairman and chief executive officer. Mackie moves to New York with professional background as an accountant who became chairman of Schenley's profitable British subsidiary, Seager-Evans. He considers his appointment as the non-American president of "an extremely American company" to be "amazing and wonderful. I can think of no precedent." But he has few illusions about the amount of control he will take over from Rosenstiel. Says he: "I have a tremendous amount...