Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accusing the University officials of conspiring to organize a company union in violation of the Massachusetts State "Baby Wagner Act," Robert H. Everitt, New England representative of the A. F. of L.s Building Service Employees' International Union, yesterday told Local 30 that "we'll have to be harder on the University if we want to get anywhere," and threatened to ask the State Labor Relations Board to investigate Harvard's "inside" union...
...roof be placed over prices? The government can, of course, use its power as a purchaser to bring prices down. But it would have to face the same sort of reaction that greeted the Walsh-Healey act. The refusal of big steel to bid on navy contracts came pretty near to being a sit down strike. And the government can try to instill new vigor in America's puny consumers cooperatives movement...
...preceding Freshman dance, fourteen ushers will be picked from members of the class. Mrs. Delmar Leighton will act as head patroness, with the other four patronesses to be named later...
...constitution provides for a "Labor Relations Board" this title is tentative which will investigate all grievances of members and take action with the University in the departments in which it is empowered to act. The board will be composed of representatives of each department of employees in the University. So far as possible all grievances will be ironed out by representatives of the department in which they originate...
...four major issues of the day big business and little business stand shoulder to shoulder, proving that in some respects their interests are not incompatible. Both appear dubious about the merits of the wages and hours bill; both approve the Housing Act; both demand that credit facilities be extended; and both feel that labor unions should be held responsible in contracts. Through representative groups perhaps the differences between big business, little business, and government might be settled so that all three could turn the Utopian corner called Prosperity...