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...hostile to unionism than other Dixie employers. That was a monumental miscalculation: Stevens fought back so hard as to lead the National Labor Relations Board to accuse it last year of "unfair labor practices of unprecedented flagrancy and magnitude." To this day the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) does not have a contract at even one of Stevens' 85 plants, most of them in the Southeast. The intensity of the company's resistance, however, has only confirmed unionists in their view that Stevens is the key to organizing all the South. Now they are launching...
First Taste. Last week, as a record 550 shareholders jammed into the cafeteria and three other rooms of the Stevens Tower in mid-Manhattan for the annual meeting, management got its first taste of the new offensive. In the street below, 3,000 ACTWU sympathizers-butchers, seamen, teachers, Princeton students-waved picket signs and chanted union slogans. At the meeting, several former Stevens workers accused the company of firing them for union activity. Many Roman Catholic nuns and priests and Methodist ministers, members of five religious organizations that had bought shares of Stevens stock in order to have a voice...
...protest got nowhere: a resolution calling on Stevens to explain its labor policies drew only 6% of the shareholder votes. But the demonstration was only part of the union attack. In mid-1976 ACTWU announced a nationwide boycott of Stevens products and in the past few months it has intensified the effort. With the support of church, student and civil rights groups, it hopes to call on community leaders and get them to urge retailers to take Stevens goods off the shelves. This is the same tactic, and the same coalition, that broke the impassioned resistance to unionism of Farah...
...that much of Stevens' output is unfinished cloth sold to other manufacturers, and the company's own consumer products sell under a bewildering variety of private labels and brand names, including Utica blankets and Gulistan carpets. Some, like Yves Saint Laurent sheets, bear designer names. Nonetheless, ACTWU is printing up thousands of wallet-sized cards listing labels, and plans to take ads in local papers to persuade housewives to boycott Stevens...