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HUERA members forcibly ejected one of two AFL pamphlet passers from Burr Hall last night before a special meeting convened to discuss combatting the AFL's latest overtures to University employees...
University policemen then denied the American Federation of Labor organizers the right to pass out literature outside the hall on Harvard property. Heated arguing with the pamphlet passers preceded the meeting at which HUERA members voted unanimously to oppose the AFL...
...Mulvihill janitors have recently charged the AFL with plotting to destroy HUERA through a barrage of corrupting rumors. Edward T. Sullivan, president of the Building Service Employees International of the AFL, last week denied any action against the University union...
...group of janitors petitioned Mulvihill for the meeting, asking the HUERA head to present a full audit of the union's finances. When the pro-Mulvihill faction among the janitors heard of the petition, they called it an AFL plot to destroy the HUERA...
Sullivan tried to organize the maids and janitors last fall, but only a small percentage were willing to desert the HUERA. Sullivan attributed this mainly to the HUERA's exceptionally low dues of 50 cents per month; the AFL charges $2 per month...