Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MANY MONTHS AFTER students asked the University to support consumer student boycotts of J.P. Stevens and Nestle Inc. products officially, the Faculty Council last week ruled that the University should in no case recognize a student boycott even if a majority voted for a boycott in a referendum. The Council...
By refusing to back a consumer boycott, the Council guarantees that student boycotts will have little impact. In the case of J.P. Stevens sheets used in the University Health Services' infirmary, students have no way of boycotting without University support.
"When a giant textile concern like J.P. Stevens can treat its workers like slaves and thwart their legitimate organizing efforts" the continuing importance of labor unions is evident, McBride said.
"I have a message for J.P. Stevens and all the other Union-haters in America" that the labor movement is going to prevent "demeaning and degrading treatment of American workers," McBride added.
It was billed as a celebration of country music: two hours of pickin' and singin' to benefit Washington's Ford's Theater. Just about all of country's constellations were there to shine: Cash, Clark, Fender, Gatlin, Hall, Mandrell, Milsap, Monroe and his Blue Grass...