Word: stones
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About 70 demonstrators--mostly members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers [HUCTW] and other sympathetic unions--demanded at the noon rally that Stone cut the University's ties with the mining company by resigning his post either at Harvard or at Pittston. Stone is one of seven members of the Corporation, which owns all Harvard property and which is responsible for University policy decisions...
...Stone is legally one of the owners of Harvard University," Bliss Professor of History John Womack told the assembled protesters. "If you talk about corporate responsibility at Pittston, you've got to talk about corporate responsibility at Harvard...
Protest organizers said Stone--who attends about 15 board meetings a year--has rejected opportunities for a settlement with the strikers. They said they may take further action at Harvard if Stone does not accede to their demands...
...Robert Stone works in a luxury corporate office in Manhattan," Zinn said. "He doesn't have to look into the eyes of coal miners who have black lung disease because their health benefits have been cut off by his company. If he isn't going to come down to the coal fields, we'll come up here...
Other unions involved in the rally included the AFL-CIO and Local 26, the Harvard dining hall workers' union. Representatives of both those groups and HUCTW said their organizations would continue to lend support to efforts against Stone...