Word: benenson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the two workers asked for help, SDS representatives met with them and offered the active support of their organization. The chances of successfully organizing a union looked dim. Harold B. Benenson '67, an SDS organizer, recalled that first meeting: "There were only five of us then. We sat around and despaired...
These hospitals have interlocking boards of directors. Benenson and other members of the Labor Committee fear that if they just hit one of the hospitals at a time, the others in the council will be able to relieve the labor pressure with money and by sharing facilities. For example, if one hospital were struck, it might be able to resist worker demands by transferring many of its patients to another hospital and waiting out the strike. Of course this couldn't happen if all the hospitals were in danger of being struck simultaneously...
...Benenson claims that the GBHC has met to discuss a unified strategy against the movement, but so far the hospitals have resorted to a pretty conventional bag of tricks to discourage the workers. They have threatened to fire workers who become involved in the movement. They have not carried out the threats, realizing that such action would just unite the workers behind the movement...
After Monro had left. Harold B. Benenson '67, an SDS member who had seen Dean Monro privately last week, said "I'm really distressed that people laughed and hissed . . . It looks like we just told Dean Monro that we aren't going to stick together when it comes times to push and shove...
...Benenson said that he and three other SDS leaders had told Monro just the opposite and that unity was needed to make demonstrations like last week's successful...