Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"We've been working all our lives in the cotton mills, and you can't take no more. I just wish they'd get somebody up there that's got some sense to run the mill without trying to push the help to death." --Lillian Harrell, J.P. Stevens worker
J.P. STEVENS, the country's second largest textile industry, is notorious for its unethical and illegal labor practices. It pays its workers less than any other industry in the country. It combats workers' attempts to organize with blatant force or threats of dismissal. It lays off workers incapacitated with the...
Rise Gonna Rise describes the part that J.P. Stevens has played in the life of its workers through first hand accounts by the workers and through-documented evidence of corporate mismanagement and corruption. The personal narrative reveals the workers' wariness of unions which they believe would destroy the family like...
But Harvard probably won't be able to dodge a stand on the nuclear question forever. Lawrence F. Stevens '65, secretary of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), will face quite a few shareholder resolutions this spring from investors alarmed by the mishap at Three Mile Island.
The Council falsely claims that University support of a consumer boycott would endanger the right of the minority to use the product. In the first place, any student could still use the product privately. And second, refusal to recognize a majority referendum supporting a boycott effectively denies the majority's...