News & Views
NEWS & VIEWS J.P. Stevens, Co. As the North Carolina Anvil has noted, not everyone thinks J.P.Stevens Co. is a bum employer. Take James Finley, chairman of the board of directors. His...
...Whitney Stevens, company president, made $296,00, which is pretty good too...
...We're concerned about the right of J.P...
...It's a reasonable position...
...table linen (Simtex...
...Sworn this day, July I I , 1984...
...On the face of it, the situation seems impossible," said Catherine Morris of the Catholic Worker community...
...Laurent and Angelo Donghia...
...Stevens' workers have been seeking to organize for 13 years, and the effort by religious groups to help them is humane, not ideological...
...A reprieve came at the eleventh hour...
...lmld#' Jimminel/ It's open season, obviously, for the punsters on little Amy, big Jimmy and the rest of the Carters...
...Belph~ //mu/s The Los Angeles Catholic Worker Community runs a clinic and hospitality house, and serves up to one thousand meals a day in an old two-story hotel in the city's skid-row sector...
...His salary last year was $184,000, with a bonus of another $184,000...
...Well, miracles still happen in California...
...Then it hunted for other accommodations in square-mile skid row...
...Washingtonian editor John Limpert thought it nifty satire...
...The community first tried negotiation...
...Placed by "Overprivileged Kids, Inc.," the ad asked funds so that children like Amy can spend "two weeks with real people...
...The letters chronicled the goings and comings of the "Carters," including Uncle Stinkweed Carter, Cousin Nehmiah Honest Carter, Auntie Gutpump Carter, Great Auntie Eulalia Moonshine Carter, Uncle Snob Carter III, Private Chickenhaid Carter and other assorted "relatives...
...Says the military in defense of its neutron bomb: "We want to deter attack and defend territory without destroying what we want to save...
...An appeal went out, and within two weeks the Los Angeles Catholic Worker Community had its $55,000, through contributions small and large...
...Florence Little of the United Methodist Church's World Division put it this way: "The support of the union is not our basic concern...
...Punch, accordingly, was hauled before a watchdog committee to answer an accusation of unethical conduct...
...In addition the company has been under investigation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for alleged multiple violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and has lost a series of federal district court cases involving discriminatory employment practices...
...We don't have a lot of wealthy or powerful friends to turn to...
...But the White House was not amused, and the Postal Service immediately dropped its mail sacks to begin an investigation into possible violation of laws against solicitation on behalf of fraudulent organizations...
...no luck...
...The variant featured a picture of a scruffy Amy, cradling a cat, and, in the Daily News's words, "looking misty, much like the kids who stare out at you" from bona fide appeal ads...
...It's the good-news story of summer...
...By contrast, workers who retired from Stevens in 1974 received lump-sum payments of $770 and no pension...
...14, else the Los Angeles Catholic Worker Community would be out its $9,000 and out the building it knows as Hospitality Kitchen and Zedakah House...
...It's no St...
...Meanwhile, Punch, the irreverent British magazine, was off the press with a series of spoof letters purportediy written by Miss Lillian, but actually the work of Punch deputy editor Alan Coren...
...our friends are the people we live with and serve...
...3Olin DEF.~Y 5 August 1977:482...
...Both will be entitled to a pension of $91,000 a year...
...For how long suddenly became the question...
...Company officials caught heat from several shareholders at last March's annual meeting, and four Catholic organizations collected more than 5.5 percent of the shares voted on resolutions relating to the company's labor policies, including racial and male/female employment practices...
...The new owner sat down with community representatives and accepted $9,000--the last of the Christmas donations fund and all the money in their savings--towards purchase of the property...
...Needed now was $55,000 by Aug...
...Joseph the Worker outfit obviously...
...no success...
...Well, it's one thing to spoof the Royal Family and other venerable British institutions, but you don't bite the hand that feeds you...
...Washingtonian . magazine started it with a variation on the familiar Save-the-Children-Fund advertisement...
...The pressure has been on J.P.Stevens for some time...
...J.P.Stevens is the giant textile outfit 45,000 workers at 85 plants---that has been fighting to thwart organizing efforts of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union . . . and that also has been found guilty of violating the National Labor Relations Act 13 times, being forced to pay $1.3 million in back wages to 291 workers...
...Says I: "Orwell is alive and well and working at the Pentagon...
...At the same time all...
...Stevens products and their brand names include: towels (Fine Arts, Tastemaker, Utica...
...The word on the streets is that the Worker has the "best food on the row" and some of the best services...
...carpets (Gulistan, Contender, Merryweather, Tastemaker...
...blankets (Forstmann, Utica...
...Mailing address for contributions turned out to be that of Democratic National Committee headquarters...
...Six months ago the building's ownership changed hands, and the rent shot from $475 to $1700 a month...
...But we are trusting that people who see our need and the urgency of the situation will be moved to stand with us...
...Stevens employees to engage in collective bargaining without harassment...
...Building up now is a boycott of Stevens products, an effort supported by Coretta Scott King and the Catholic Committee of Appalachia, among others...
...sheets and pillowcases (Beauti-Blend, Beauticale, Fine Arts, etc., including designer labels: Yves St...
...Eviction papers were filed and on June 29 the marshals were to arrive...
...maintenance was suspended...
...hosiery (Big Mama, Finesse, Hip-Lets, Spirit...
...Odds and Ends ---Said the military on the razing of a South Vietnamese village: "We destroyed it in order to save it...
Vol. 104 • August 1977 • No. 16
