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Farah pants
The Farah pants boycott has been so
successful, at least in areas outside
Lincoln, that it's backfired.
By 1971, Farah Manufacturing Co.
President Willie Farah, son of a Lebanese
dry goods merchant, had steered his
father's business to record sales of $164
million and a $6 million profit that year.
In contrast, 1973 sales were $132
million, with miniscule profits of
$43,000. Additionally, the price of the
company's stock has sunk to $5 a share,
down from $30 before the strike.
Based in El Paso, Farah has been
described as the world's largest
manufacturer of men's slacks, But for 20
months' the company has been sparring
with about 2,000 strikers, who demand
to be. represented by the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America. Most of
the strikers are Mexican-American. Their
pay range reportedly is $1.80 to $2.25
an hour, considered low for factory
work. The public was asked to show its
support of the strikers by boycotting the
Farah product.
Since the boycott is imposing a
financial squeeze on the Farah Co.,
perhaps it may be considered effective.
However, it has backfired in that four of
nine plants have been closed, and five El
Paso plants are operating with a reduced
work force. Accordingly, effects of the
boycott are being felt in the pockets of
newly laid-off, low-income workers.
In the effort to boycott the Farah
products, Lincoln once again is dragging
its feet. The pants still are piled on
shelves at stores such as Magee's, Miller
& Paine and Brandeis, and a Farah sales
representative last autumn reported that
Farah sales in Lincoln stores had not
been affected. '
Last week an administrative law judge
of the National Labor Relations Board
ruled that Farah is "flouting the
(National Labor Relations) act and
trampling on the rights of its employes
as if there was no act, no board and no
Ten Commandments."
The issue does not promise to be
resolved for some time. Meanwhile,
don't buy Farah slacks.
Mary Voboril
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hard to bring a little class and beauty to the
students (mostly poor like me.)
I mainly want to express my appreciation
for a job weli done and especially commend
Rae Jean Lewandowski on her efforts and all-
those who work with her.
Lynn rvk Purdy
Dear editor,
I am a senior at the University of
Nebraska and have never felt an immense
desire or need to publicly praise a campus
student organization.
I realize the fault is mine, but I do wish
to make amends and express congratulations
for one job well done.
The organization is the Nebraska Union
Art Lending Library. For once we have a
Dear editor,
The front-page cartoon of Hitler (Daily
Nebraskan, Jan. 31) displayed not only a
lack of good taste but also a lack of any
sense of humor.
I suggest that the cartoon only mirrors
the overall quality of your publication:
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only a
paper recession
The President has flatly predicted there will be no recession
this year. Doesn't he ever have any good news for us?
Instead of a recession, he's promised to do his very best to give
us another record year of inflation. This shows how seriously the
President has misjudged the public mood. What the public wants
is good, decent, solid Depression.
The public is tired of inflation. The only people who still
enjoy it are housewives.
"Do you know what that lamb chop cost?" housewives keep
asking their weary husbands as they sit down to dinner. "Guessl
Just guess!"
"A dollar?" says the husband, trying to remember what the
last lamb chop he had 12 months ago cost
"Hah, $1.98!" cried the housewife tri'jnphant'y. "See?
You've no idea what prices -? lil" these dyr.
But the happin- n .-. ho.ji.Aives is certainly not worth
continued inflatir- .ue, we'll alt have more money to buy the
things we r-1-. no longer afford. But what we really want is to be
able to di'tord all the things we no longer have the money to buy.
It's a question of bargains.
With a good solid Depression going, even housewives would be
happy. "A dollar?" guesses the weary husband, staring at his
annual lamb chop.
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"Hah, I got it for only 32 cents!" cries the housewife
triumphantly.
She's happy. He's happy. Bargains make everybody happy.
JVith a good jolid Depression going, your 1974 dollar would be
worth at least two dollars. This would not only restore
Tdnfrjence1rithe doHaf'Snd ease our balance of payments
problem, but it would eliminate poverty. Even a family of four
earning $3,200 a year would be well off.
The ecological benefits would be enormous. It's a well-known
fact that Depressions produce less garbage, fewer babies and a
sharp reduction in industrial wastes. And what could better lick
the energy crisis and clean up the air than the 2-family car?
Sociologically, a Depression is desperately needed to restore
togetherness in the American family. A Depression will give our
aimless, drifting youth something to do-like looking for a job.
Moreover, it will provide them with a subject to talk to their
own children about whert they grow up, such as, "When I was
your age, my allowance was only ..." And what else is there to
talk to children about?
More important, there's no end to inflation. Prices keep going
up forever. But-ahl if prices only dropped 7 per cent a year
instead, we could look forward to the happy day when everything
is free and we're all living on easy street
So to restore public morale, it behooves the President tc
re-address the nation. "Depression," he should say, "is just
around the corner! I pledge two chickens in every garage and ..."
Hold it! I've just been looking at what we economists call the
economic indicators. Unemployment's up, car sales are down, the
stock market is confused and soaring oil prices threaten to
bankrupt every industrialized nation.
I think the President just said that about no recession so we
wouldn't get our hopes up.
(Copyrl-jht Chronicle Pobllhlng Co. 1974)
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