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...AFL, defeated by a 2-1 margin last year, will probably attempt to unionize University employees again this spring...
...AFL "feelers" claim there is more enthusiasm for affiliation with their union than ever before. "May be this is the year," Edward Sullivan, head of the AFL building service local, said...
...production, which played, at the Barbizon Theatre, was picketed by members of the AFL Musicians' Union and the Stage Employees' Union. A two-night stand last year in Bronx school auditorium did not bring pickets, but failed to fill the house...
With the situation as confused and misunderstood as it now is, the AFL's chances of moving in seem better than they have been before. Nobody is really satisfied with the University's decision to end maid service in the Houses, not even the University itself. Certainly the president undergraduates join with the maids in lamenting the loss of service scheduled for next fall. But faced with the soaring costs of running a college, the men in University Hall must economize. Rather than deprive the student of something less expendable, they decided on the maids...
Naturally the maids, and all the other University employees, would welcome some guarantee of "security." Whether the AFL can really give them this is certainly dubious. The decision between the rival unions, is, and should be the workers' alone. It should be made on the basis of real and relative benefits, not exaggerated claims...