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...Fore River Student Labor Committee, Harvard boasts a group that applies the theory of classroom and debating-club to the practical problems of labor organization. This Committee is not political. It subscribes to the democratic principle of industrial unionism. It recognizes that a mutual understanding between students and laborers is essential to the defense of democracy now and its extension later. The task of organizing the Fore River Shipyard of Bethlehem Steel provides an ideal situation for the field work of the Committee and a happy direction in extra-curricular life at Harvard in general...
...election that the N.L.R.B. will hold at Fore River on October 22 is a "yes" or "no" vote on the question of unionism. C.I.O.'s Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers is the only shipyard union recognized by the N.L.R.B. and the only union that will appear on the ballot. A defeat for the C.I.O. would cut off 17,000 Quincy workers from collective bargaining for at least a year, and jeopardize Fore River's chances to match the record-pace of defense output in the union yards. In nine of eleven Bethlehem yards already represented by C.I.O. production...
...years ago, the N.L.R.B. outlawed a "union" at Fore River on evidence of company subsidization and outright corruption. The same horse exists today in a different color, and as the Independent Union, attempts to incite anti-C.I.O. sentiment in Quincy with the worn device of red-baiting. Early this week, an Independent publication went out of its way to dub the student organizers "ra-ra pinks." A deliberate endeavor by anti-labor forces to counteract the activity of students can only mean that the Committee is making its influence felt in the campaign for unionism at Fore River...
There was the Fore River case. This spring, he said, Palmer notified him that 1,050 housing units were needed immediately in the Boston area for workers in Bethlehem's Quincy shipyards. With no time to build, FWA had to purchase from USHA for $4,856,203 an 873-unit slum clearance project 8.7 miles from the shipyards. Carmody told Palmer at the time it was a "preposterous" idea. Result up to Aug. 26: 400 units were occupied, only 225 by shipyard workers...
...Fore River Weekly," in opposition to the CIO's attempts to gain a union shop in the Quincy shipbuilding yards warned the workers yesterday against the "pink boys and girls of Harvard, M.I.T., Radcliffe and Simmons". "Oh, dear! What next?" the paper commented...