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Total number of signatures in support of higher wages and union recognition for waitresses, the kitchen force, and bus boys mounted steadily last night, according to undergraduate backers...
...Bus boys, according to union standards, should receive $16 a week with meals. Harvard pays $15 a week with meals. Pantry girls should receive $22 a week according to union scale; Harvard offers...
Problems discussed included an increase over the present wage scale for waitresses, a lounge for the bus boys for the 2:30 to 5:15 o'clock free period, and recognition of the union for all bargaining purposes...
Prior to yesterday's negotiations the unionizing drive had proceeded for several weeks. Organizers claim that almost the entire kitchen force is organized with Local 186 of the "Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association," and that approximately 75 percent of the waitresses and 100 percent of the bus boys have been incorporated into this union as an auxiliary...
Representatives of the A. F. of L. chosen as bargaining agents by the cooks, bus boys, and waitresses, sat down yesterday around the conference table with Mr. Durant and Mr. Westcott to arrive at some sort of an agreement concerning their mutual problems. Many students will agree that this represents a progressive and far-sighted policy, well in keeping with Harvard's liberal tradition. The meeting yesterday embodied the democratic method of ironing out conflicting interests by rational deliberation...