Nader Calls for Consumer Strike: One-Day Consumer Strike Called for by Ralph Nader
More than 2,000 participants at an inflation teacli-in at tlie Washington Hilton here call for a nationwide consumer strike and massive union write-in protest.</br></br>By Larry Kramer Washinetou Post Staff Writer Consumer advocate Ralph Nader yesterday called for a one-day nationwide consumer strike to protest what he called the failure of the Carter administration and the nationÛªs business interests to bring down inflation.</br></br>NaderÛªs speech came after United Auto WorkerÛªs President Douglas Fraser said he will shortly ask his 1.5 million members to take time out on the job one day to write Congress and</br></br>Both men spoke at an all-day session reminiscent of the anti-war teach-ins of the 1960s but with political rhetoric closer to the depression days of the 1930s.</br></br>Gari Alperovltz, an economist for the conference sponsor Consumers Opposed to Inflation in the Necessities (COIN), opened the teach-in with a summary of the particularly severe impact of inflation on the basic necessities.