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...sitting next to Schroder, Peter Van Delft, will do most of the talking; he is an organizer of District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America, a New York-based clerical workers' union with which Schroder is affiliated. Van Delft is an extraordinary-looking man, especially when he is sitting down. Although he is short, wears non-descript clothes--corduroy trousers, a shirt open at the neck--and is getting paunchy, he is impressive from the neck up. He has a huge, craggy head and a bushy brown beard that blends into his bushy brown swept-back hair. His eyes...
Peter Van Delft, a District 65 organizer who is apparently the wunderkind of the university clerical workers organization, was once again in town this week, spreading the word at Phillips Brooks House, among other places...
...person behind the unionization drive is Peter Van Delft, general organizer for the Distributive Workers. Van Delft started dealing with the Med School group in the fall, and is trying to organize clerical workers into the Distributive Workers' fledgling college division at the University of Chicago and several Ivy League schools. Van Delft is a veteran unionizer who is too crafty to reveal exactly the extent of his operations, but he has been spending much time lately flying around to various universities...
...secretary in the Physics Department went to one of Van Delft's meetings with the Med School workers this spring and first thought of doing something similar on this side of the river; she has since then conferred with other secretaries throughout the University about it, and says the drive is progressing well, if a little slowly...
Meanwhile, Van Delft is in touch with at least one other group in Cambridge, and possibly more--he won't say exactly whom he has talked to. "Let me beg off on this," he said last month. "It's premature right...