Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since that time, a strike or lockout, depending upon which side is heard, has been in progress at the Harvard Club of New York. In its attempt to break the strike, the Harvard Club has hired non-union help at rates as high as $8 a meal; in trying to arouse the sympathy of the public and the members of the Harvard Club, the union has staged mass demonstrations of employees and employees' children. The police have on several occasions been called in at the request of the Club...
These clubs form an anti-union group in the hotel and club industry and the tactics of the Harvard Club in the current dispute leave little question that an attempt is being made to break the union. It seems to me a disgrace to the College that an organization affiliated with it should act as spearhead in such a movement or should insist on its God-given right to pay as little as 60 cents an hour for human labor in a city where wage rates and the cost of living are the highest in the nation...
...been presented almost entirely by the Union; but this in itself is a fact that works against the management, which has refused to offer on its side any important information beyond one statement that "for the past several months operations of the Club have been on a close to break-even basis," and another that it has granted a wage increase during the last year that was "considerably greater than the average wage for New York City clubs." Neither of these statements in any way answer the Union's claims, which show that up and down the line, the Harvard...
...poor shape, and that night was taken to the Royal Army hospital for treatment. A few minutes after Eaton was carried off the field, Hunt Mauran had his jaw broken, but he played out the remainder of the first half. Only that evening did an x-ray show the break, and the Harvard squad found itself minus two of its best running backs...
Speakers in favor of Eisenhower maintained that he was the only liberal minded man in the Democratic party strong enough to break the tradition of manifesting an incumbent President. According to the opposition, Douglas, as the only strong liberal in the presidential field, must be given all the publicity buildup possible...