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...exception of janitors, maids, students, and unskilled help. The Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association is an independent union, unaffiliated with any outside group like the AFLCIO and it exists only at Harvard. Twenty-five years ago Harvard had only one labor union, the Harvard Employees Representative Association. The craftsmen -- carpenters, plumbers, painters, truck drivers, and electricians -- who believed they were inadequately represented by the allinclusive union, created the BGMA to bargain exclusively for their interests...
Despite his strong ambition to "organize" Harvard, the closest Sullivan has managed to get is Radcliffe where the BSEIU represents the janitors, maids and waitresses, as well as the craftsmen...
Kenneth Anger, 34, is the wild man of the movement and one of its most creative craftsmen. A fanatical occultist, he practices the blood rites of devil worship and has splashed the walls of his San Francisco pad with a Nazi banner and words written in blood. Anger's notorious Scorpio Rising is a jaggedly cubistic piece of black cinema that examines the big strong she-men who gun along with the cycle cult. The movie concludes with a satanic black-jacketed bacchanal that looks like the last stages of an amphetamine nightmare...
...spite of this situation social policy makers were required to operate in the dark, so that however much or little impact their programs might have neither they nor anyone else would have anything more than an intuitive, craftsmen's judgment of what worked and what did not, there would be nothing much else...
Notoriously Lethargic. The strains show elsewhere. Though the A.F.L.-C.I.O. claims to have reversed a seven-year trend of dwindling membership, it has been notoriously lethargic in recruiting the unskilled. Last month, in New York State's Catskill Mountains resort area, ten A.F.L.-C.I.O. locals, representing such craftsmen as carpenters and electricians, actually opposed higher minimum wages for busboys, maids and other nonunion hotel employees, complaining that the increased costs might force some hotels to close and cut down on employment of trade-unionists. Though some member unions have taken at least token steps to ease discrimination against Negroes...