Word: cypress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riding on a tide of successful labor uprisings throughout the State, Locals 112 and 186 of the American Federation of Labor met in Cypress Hall, Central Square, last night and approved a tentative contract with the University calling for a closed shop in the Dining Halls and kitchens and wage increases of from one to eight dollars...
...other hand, lost no time in branding their rival as a company dominated union and pointing out to bewildered waitresses the inequity of such an organization. The University, it is apparent, did not foster the Representative Association, but by neglecting to discipline its employees and letting Cypress Hall Ciceros go unchecked, it fostered a good bit of misinformation...
...indigenous to the bayou country as Mardi Gras are pirogues (canoes dug out of cypress logs). Louisiana's first mode of transportation, pirogues are still used by Cajun and Baratarian trappers to navigate the swamps and bayous south of New Orleans. Pirogues weigh from 50 to 100 pounds, are 18 inches wide, six to 20 feet long. Among Cajuns and Baratarians (descendants of Pirate Jean Lafitte's band of buccaneers) a pirogue is a family heirloom, the result of two or three years of painstaking labor. First the tree trunk is scooped out with a mattock and fire...
...meeting of 100 maids and janitors in Cypress Hall, Francis P. Fenton, New England representative of William Green, declared, "we'll make Harvard by law refrain from dealing with the Harvard Employees Representative Association...
Everitt told the 36 women who gathered in Cypress Hall yesterday afternoon that he was collecting "definite information" on members of the Harvard Employees' Representative Association who were threatening chambermaids with discharge if they did not join the Association...