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...Stevens & Co., the second largest U.S. textile maker, which for more than 16 years has fought off unionization despite repeated warnings by the National Labor Relations Board and three contempt citations by federal courts. Labor regards cracking Stevens as the key to organizing the largely nonunion South. The ACTWU aims at isolating Stevens by making it a pariah to other business and financial institutions. Says Rogers: "The ultimate goal of the corporate campaign is, if necessary, to totally alienate and polarize the corporate and Wall Street communities away from J.P. Stevens...
Last winter the ACTWU organized a campaign that led labor unions to threaten to withdraw more than $1 billion in pension and other funds from New York's Manufacturers Hanover bank unless it dumped two of its directors, who also held seats on the Stevens board. The bank quickly caved in and failed to renominate Stevens Chairman James D. Finley and David W. Mitchell, chairman of Avon Products. Two weeks later Mitchell, deluged with letters from union sympathizers threatening a boycott of Avon goods, also quit as a Stevens director...
...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 union has allotted $1.5 million a year for the next ten years for the Stevens campaign, and has a pledge of full support from...
...after a court ruling that management had to bargain in good faith with the union; Stevens says the mill was shut because demand for its product "declined drastically." In 1974 the union won an election at seven Stevens plants in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., but 2½ years later ACTWU officials still have not been able to get the company to sign a contract. Stevens accuses the union of making "impossible" demands. ACTWU officers reply that Stevens adamantly refuses to accept arbitration of grievances or a checkoff system for dues collections, and that without those provisions the union cannot function...
...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 their side, ACTWU officials vow a battle to the death. After 14 years the struggle is more bitter than ever...