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Several board members agreed that the union's demands were justifiable but would cost $53 million per year and, as Board Member Mrs. Louis Malis bluntly put it, "there is no money." The board offered only to renew the present contract for six months. After 20 fruitless negotiating sessions, the teachers struck. Efforts soon followed to set up emergency schools. The teachers union itself helped organize 38 of them in churches, storefronts and library branches, enough to handle about 4,000 pupils...
Once again the middle weight matches were Harvard's weaknesses. Struggling Mike Dee (150) deadlocked Maine, 2-2, and wrestled a fruitless third round against MIT, losing 3-4. Rock Henkel blew his chance to pick up his first season win when he fell to Maine...
...employees--nurses, orderlines and kitchen and maintenance workers--voted to strike on October 31 after three months of what they called "fruitless negotiations...
...cannot be said that the ward work was fruitless or that it exhausted all MHC's energy in its first 17 years. Jonathan Koaol '58, now known for his work on free schools, ought English to a supposedly outside girl he discovered who had simply not been tonight to speak...
However, six weeks of fruitless contract negotiations between HSWOC and Cronin ended in a strike...