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Why are the United Farm Workers working on the J.P. Stevens boycott? The UFW, which has worked for the past 15 years primarily near its base in California, is moving into other areas.
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...
To 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...
The boycott effort not only serves to increase awareness of the plight of the Stevens workers, but also provides economic pressure to aid the workers in the tasks of organizing and collective bargaining. Stevens' large size, 85 plants in several countries, would make it possible for them to outlast a...
The textile workers union and the rest of the AFL-CIO are waging battles on four other fronts in addition to the boycott. The union is still very active in the mill towns of the South. They continue to help the workers in their efforts to organize more plants for...