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...story is Davenport's most comprehensive attempt to present that idea. But here the author fails, partially because he gets too pedantic, in both his language and his ideas, and partially because he shifts from the present action to an excerpted translation of van Hovendaal's works on Samuel Butler's utopic Erewhon and his own concepts of Utopia which are rightly described as "some of the strangest in modern thought...
...Butler says that he has not confronted the organizers yet, but with an NLRB election in sight before the winter, he is apt to run into them nose-to-nose in a hearing room, perhaps before the end of the year...
Labor officials met with Harvard administrators last month in one of the first steps in an investigation that could end in a suit against the University in U.S. District Court. But John B. Butler, director of personnel and the overall supervisor of salary and wage levels, has said there is "no situation that I am aware of where the facts support what has been alleged" in the complaint. Butler and Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, discussed the complaint with White this summer in an effort to avoid going to court...
...John B. Butler, director of personnel, says the University would not contest the Harvard Employees Organizing Committee's efforts to form a union if the committee represents all the University's clerical workers; Butler considers any sub-group of the clerical workers an inappropriate unit for unionization. So although the committee will have to labor mightily to start a successful union, it will not have to deal with University opposition, as the Medical Area group will if it makes a separate unionization...
Although the clerical workers committee will probably not get past the organizing stage for a while, Harvard's labor relations will hardly be placid this fall. Two of Harvard's union contracts expire in November and December, and negotiations on both will begin late this month. Butler says he expects settlements with the 600-member Harvard University Employees Representative Association and the 340-member Metropolitan Boston and Vicinity Craft Maintenance Council, but the University and the unions are still likely to sit down at the bargaining table with substantially different ideas about wages...