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...second handbill--a larger one--states in part: "Let's all roll up our sleeves ... '57 is AFL Year at Harvard ... Let's bring a REAL, militant fighting union into Harvard... Your group should be with...
...second time in four years, the AFL is waging an all-out campaign to enlist unskilled University employees. In 1954 the national union was soundly defeated; this spring Local 254 of the AFL Building Service Employees' International Union has assigned five full-time organizers to see that it does not happen again and to assure the addition of 1,100 new members to its ranks...
...employees affected--janitors, groundsmen, maids, maintenance men, and other unskilled groups--have been represented since 1938 by a company Union, the Harvard University Employees' Representative Association. The officers of that group assert that they know of no serious dissatisfaction among their members, and claim that "the AFL hasn't a prayer of a chance here...
...several employee groups have withdrawn from the HUERA within the past few years. Just this month the bindery workers voted to join an AFL craft union, and employees of the Department of Athletics would enter Local 254, if the State Labor Relations Board upholds the Local's protest on two decisive votes cast in a jurisdictional election...
...AFL organizers have built their campaign around charges that the company union has represented its members ineffectively. As a result, they claim, the University has fallen behind MIT (whose employees belong to Local 254) in wages, working conditions, and fringe benefits...