Word: halls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pointing out that the effect of the walk-out will be the complete breakdown of the dining hall systems in the Houses, at the Union and graduate school eating places, Stefani announced that A.F. of L. teamsters had pledged their support and will refuse to deliver food to the College. At the same time the strike will have the active backing of the Cambridge Central Labor Union, an organization of 30,000 workers in the city...
Last year, he said, the "company union" tried to obtain sole bargaining rights for the dining hall workers even though the A.F. of L. had already obtained certification of their exclusive privilege. Stefani found the H.U.E.R.A. labor group an "insidious" and "destructive force" which has "no hope of bettering working conditions...
...Spain in Arms," a talking motion picture showing the military action on both sides of the Civil War, will be shown free at 8 o'clock tonight in the New Lecture Hall. Hugh Whitney '25, authority and lecturer on Spain, will preside at the meeting...
Nothing could be more indicative of a healthy state of affairs on Harvard's labor front than the threat of a general walk-out which the kitchen and dining-hall workers hurled at the University early yesterday morning. Hasty, aggressive and doubtless ill-considered, it nevertheless showed a majority of workers democratically exerting their rights without fear of reprisal: in short, the ideal personnel...
...this distrust which led to the kitchen and dining-hall workers' affiliation with the A.F. of L. In a spirit of mutual cooperation they signed a contract with the University which at the time was agreeable to both sides. Through it the University benefitted in efficiency and the workers in a wage increase of upwards of two dollars...