Picketers March Outside Stadium To Protest ABC

A small force of pickets will greet the expected crowd of 35,000 at Soldiers' Field this afternoon.

The pickets, all members of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, are protesting ABC's televised coverage of the Harvard-Princeton football game. The NABET strike against ABC, now in its seventh week, in volves 1500 television workers across the country and is presently under Federal arbitration in Washington.

Yesterday four lonely pickets stood outside the stadium. Max W. Crouch, spokesman for the group, said that working conditions--not wages--were the issue of the strike. "We work a nine hour day, seven days a week, ad have no vacations," he said. He explained that the picketers arrived in Cambridge Tuesday from New York City, where they are members of Local No. 16.

Meanwhile, an ABC crew was at work setting up broadcast equipment in the stadium's booth. Joe Bush, unit manager of the crew, refused to comment on the strike; but he said that ABC would definitely carry the broadcast.