Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In 1963 union organizers seeking to crack the Southern textile industry picked as their No. 1 target J.P. Stevens & Co., the nation's second largest textile maker. Their reason: before it moved most of its mills south, Stevens had union contracts in some of its Northern plants, and organizers...
First Taste. Last week, as a record 550 shareholders jammed into the cafeteria and three other rooms of the Stevens Tower in mid-Manhattan for the annual meeting, management got its first taste of the new offensive. In the street below, 3,000 ACTWU sympathizers-butchers, seamen, teachers, Princeton students...
The protest got nowhere: a resolution calling on Stevens to explain its labor policies drew only 6% of the shareholder votes. But the demonstration was only part of the union attack. In mid-1976 ACTWU announced a nationwide boycott of Stevens products and in the past few months it has...
So far the boycott has had no perceptible result. Stevens set records for both sales ($1.4 billion) and profits ($41 million) last year. But union leaders say that serious boycott preparations started only in January. One problem they face is that much of Stevens' output is unfinished cloth sold...
ACTWU is also trying to get people in union offices all over New York to tie up the Stevens switchboard with telephone calls. Says Campaign Director Ray Rogers: "We want to get so many phone calls going into the company that they can't make phone calls out." The...