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...local affiliate of the United Auto Workers this week began distributing informational leaflets in offices on the main campus in an effort to organize 3000 University employees. A union needs signatures from at least 30 per cent of the proposed bargaining unit before it can call for a vote on organization. A Crimson survey conducted earlier in the week showed that fewer than 17 per cent of the 120 secretarial and technical workers polled said they would support a request for unionization, while more than a third said they would...
Jess Velma, president of the Harvard Democratic Club, said the group had collected 50 per cent more than the 1000 signatures they originally hoped to collect from the Harvard community. Vince Chang, secretary of the Democratic Club, said before the presentation. "The main point of the Watt petition was to increase our visibility and general awareness on campus...
While the number of dues-paying members is down 25 per cent from last year's peak of 120. Chang said he expects membership to rise in the next few weeks as some of the 300 people who signed up as "interested" join the club...
...problem with the Chinese grew out of Holland's considerable economic problems. Like most of western Europe, the Netherlands has experienced an extreme recession; unemployment has hit ten per cent and is rising at the rate of 100,000 per year, a substantial figure in a nation of 14 million people. The crucial ship-building industry, hit hard by Japanese competition, has suffered most of all. So when the Nationalist government of Taiwan approached the largest Dutch ship-building firm with a contract for two submarines in May, the company jumped at the offer and its promise of 3000 jobs...
Last spring, 64 per cent of the students surveyed at Harvard responded to the five-year survey, which is funded by a $650,000 grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. The sampling included 2200 women and a "control group" of 1000 men. Another 5800 women were surveyed at Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley...