Wednesday, January 11, 2012

All the Young Dudes

In 1962, Grove had sales of about $2 million but lost $400,000 due largely to legal bills. By 1964, they were making good money. By 1967, Grove had, unbelievably, insanely, gone public, and the firm built its own deluxe headquarters. (The book gives the address as "the corner of Bleecker and Houston streets"; it was at Mercer and Bleecker.) In 1970, the staff of more than 150 began organizing. That April, Barney Rosset fired some of the union organizers, by telegram. The following Monday morning, there was not only a picket line outside but an occupation, by a group of nine women, of the executive suite, led by Robin Morgan, who was among the pro-union forces and who had been fired. These were, Seaver concludes, "sadly misguided" women. They had a broadsheet of demands: "We were guilty of 'oppressive and exploitive practices against our own female employees.' Nonsense!? " (Among the women?s demands: child care at work, though as The Grove Press Reader notes, some were "far-reaching," including that profits from Malcolm X's book be "diverted to the black community.") Under advice of counsel, Rosset called the police; the women departed. Outside at the pickets, Seaver went from person to person, from Aaron Asher (editor or publisher, at times, of Roth, Miller, Bellow) to the author Julius Lester, shaming them into dispersing.

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