Word: hired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proclaimed Joseph Stefani last week at a meeting of the unions to which over 90 per cent of the Harvard cooks and waitresses belong. Apparently he had delved a bit into the contract signed last March, and had come up with the unique conclusion that for Harvard to hire its own students in its own dining halls to serve its own meals was an "unfair labor practice." If his mental somersault was merely for the purpose of boosting his prestige among the members of his flock, he cannot be very harshly criticized; but if he really contemplates a strike...
...complicated situation, one thing is perfectly clear: that a decision can be reached entirely apart from Union interference. Last March, with undergraduates behind the waitresses, they won many points. But the absurd suggestion that Harvard is not free to hire its students as it chooses will not find such friendly reception. The March contract specifically provides for such a possibility, if further proof were needed. In tenth grade English, it states that the contract applies to workers "except students who are or may be employed . . ." Harvard has granted its workers a mile; it will not be easy for them...
Engineer Halliday decided to hire enough black bucks to dam the Dangu and create an artificial lake. A whole village, more than 200 blacks, were hired at a shilling and tuppence (27?) a head per week. In the sweating jungle Congo belles wheedled out of their bosses split piston rings for their noses, rivets for their ears. Duralumin rings for bracelets. Soon blacks and whites were so friendly that each Briton had a nickname in native dialect. Radioman James Wycherley was named "King of the white men" because he sat at his dials instead of working...