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Four students from the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) and the United Farmworkers (UFW) met yesterday with Milton P. Brown, Filene Professor of Retailing, and asked him to use his influence to persuade Jordan Marsh stores to stop selling textile goods manufactured by the J.P. Stevens Company...
...UFW Benefit Dinner--Cinco de Mayo Festival, Gutman Library Conference Room...
...union wants to organize agricultural workers in the South, an area with a very anti-union sentiment. While the UFW has been organizing in the fields of California and Arizona, textile workers in the Carolinas and Georgia have been attempting to organize in the fabric mills and apparel factories...
Most violent in its illegal resistance to the struggle for unionization has been the J.P. Stevens Company. As long as there remains such strong resistance to the unions, and while companies such as J.P. Stevens still retain their hold on southern workers, the UFW's organizing work in the southern fields will have to wait. Instead, the farmworkers will support the struggles of the textile workers, in order that the workers of the South, both in the fields and in the mills, will realize that the fight for unionization must be waged together...
...this end, the UFW has resolved to support the nationwide boycott of J.P. Stevens products, recently organized by the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. The boycott has been organized under the belief that it provides the only effective means by which consumers may express their opinions and voice their outrage at the conditions in the factories which produce their textile goods...