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...screamed the middle-aged man from one of the bridges over Boston's Charles River. "Get those broads off the water!" The young women, smoothly stroking an eight-oar shell down the waterway once considered the private domain of the hallowed Harvard crew, are used to such abuse. Ever since Radcliffe recently organized its first rowing team, the oarswomen have had to endure sniggering as well as a more serious problem: lack of financial support. No matter. Women's rowing has not only been launched as a national sport, but it is scudding along at an astonishing pace...
Competing with an Earth Day Rally at the other side of the Common, union spokesmen described what they called the "hazardous safety conditions in Shell refineries which cause air pollution and "rainbow lung"--a lung disorder caused by chemicals that affects workers in the refineries...
Spokesmen from the Boston Area Shell Boycott Committee, who organized the rally, said that they hoped to convince the legislature not to by-step the 1970 Federal Industrial Safety and Health Act in favor of a state...
...OCAW strike erupted last January when Shell rejected the union's proposed health and safety program--a program which would establish a safety committee composed of refinery workers and managers...
...union is also urging people to boycott the Gulf Oil Company, from which Shell buys most of its crude...