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A student group supporting the strike against General Electric has asked Harvard's undergraduate newspapers to join an anti-GE boycott.
In identical letters to the CRIMSON and the Harvard Independent, Benjamin I. Ross '71 of the Youth Committee to Support the GE Workers asked the two papers to turn down advertising from stores that sell GE products.
"The outcome of this strike is crucial in deciding the course of the American economy in the next few years;" the letter-which appears on page 2 of today's CRIMSON-said.
The major CRIMSON advertiser that now carries GE products is the Harvard Cooperative Society-which has in the past provided as much as 20 per cent of the CRIMSON's advertising. Ross's group has so far been unsuccessful in attempts to make the Coop stop handling GE products.
James M. Fallows '70, president of the CRIMSON, declined to make any immediate reply to the request.
The Independent's president, Morris Abrams Jr. '71, could not be reached last night to explain his paper's plans.
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