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The 10 union members, during hall workers and students who attended the brief rally walked together from the John Harvard statue to the door of Rudenstine's Mass Hall office. There Reuss and HDS shop stewards Edward B. Childs and Larry D. Williams made impromptu speeches and listed demands.
"Every worker knows what a torture chamber [the Harvard Union] is to work in. It's a racist atmosphere." said Childs, who called Hicks "one of our most militant and aggressive stewards."
"I disagree with [the decision], but it's not going to be won in arbitration," said Childs, who has been vocal in his support of Hicks. "Most major cases we don't win through arbitration.... The case of discrimination, the case of racism and prejudice at Harvard is not going...
Childs said dining hall workers would continue to agitate on Hicks' behalf. He said members of several unions plan to picket in front of Holyoke Center on Thursday--Commencement day--to protest Harvard's treatment of its workers and Hicks' termination.
"We think it's a racist, anti-union firing and we're going to add pressure to Harvard to deal with the case," Childs said.