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TTHREE MONTHS AGO, the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union organized a nationwide boycott of products manufactured by the J.P. Stevens Company. The North Carolina-based textile firm, which for years has been fighting unionization efforts, is infamous for its poor treatment of its workers. Although it is the second...
J.P. Stevens' success in fighting unionization attempts thus far is due in large part to the company's ruthless reliance on a variety of unfair and illegal labor practices. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has found J.P. Stevens guilty in 15 instances of illegally discharging workers who were attempting...
So far the J.P. Stevens boycott has received the endorsement of the AFL-CIO and a number of leading southern civil rights advocates. Locally, a student committee last week sent letters to the Harvard Coop and the Harvard Student Agencies Linen Service asking them to observe the boycott. So far...
Novelists who have trained as journalists can usually be identified by their lack of plumage. There is something about trying to interpret the world in narrow columns that keeps the feathers compact and flat. Sentences tend to dart rather than gyrate. Effects are sought with tone and timing; ironies are...
At last week's annual meeting. Chairman Finley admitted that Stevens "has made mistakes of judgment." But officials show no signs of softening: the leaflet to stockholders asserts that union boycotters are "proving that they will readily sacrifice the interests of the employees ... to increase their own power." On...