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The Harvard Corporation owns 152,000 shares in Federated Department Stores (FDS), a holding company that is a major J.P. Stevens customer, Pam Woywod, assistant director of the national J.P. Stevens boycott committee, said yesterday.
The AFL-CIO is sponsoring a nationwide boycott of J.P. Stevens, the second largest textile manufacturer in the nation, because of alleged labor law violations.
Stevens believes the ACSR faces two major problems in deciding on questions of withdrawal. First, the committee must acquire "a decent base of information on which to judge," he says. "The second problem is you have to have some feel for what is net negative and net positive in South...
Says Stevens: "The charge has been made so often that the University has no policy. It has a very clear policy. It has one of the few clear policies that exist at any university-type investor in this country."
But Stevens acknowledges that the policies are still a matter of debate. "The question is not whether we have a policy or not, but whether the policy we have goes far enough," he says. Many people, including the hundreds of members of campus organizations and the thousands of students and...