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WAITRESSES at Cronin's restaurant first went on strike in the middle of December. At that time owner James Cronin yielded to pressure and agreed to recognize the newly organized Harvard Square Waitresses Organizing Committee (HSWOC). Negotiations then began over the waitresses' 24 demands. But evidently Cronin does not understand the meaning of 'negotiation'; a waitress spokeswoman said last week that he acceded to only one minor demand. He also failed to prepare a list of counter-proposals, breaking an earlier promise. After six weeks of hedging by Cronin, the waitresses had had enough. The picket lines formed again...
...HSWOC sees the fight at Cronin's as a first step in a projected drive to organize waitresses at other Square restaurants. Waiting on tables is all too often considered as a demeaning job reserved for women. The low salaries ensure that waitresses must--in the words of waitress organizer Patricia Welch--"bow, scrape and kiss...
Although Cronin's is presently the focal point of these women's struggle to restore dignity to their lives, to say nothing of earning a decent living. HSWOC does not single out Cronin as the sole offender. Other Square restaurants can expect similar actions in the future...
...Federal District Court for eastern Massachusetts also ruled that a written stipulation by the attorney for James D. Cronin, owner of the restaurant, permitting peaceful picketing, will sufficiently "cover" an earlier restraining order. The stipulation will clarify the right of members of the Harvard Square Waitresses Organizing Committee (HSWOC) to resume picketing...
Stephen R. , attorney for HSWOC, said yesterday that the negotiation for higher wages is not in conflict with the terms of the wage-price freeze if the wage hike does not go into effect us after the freeze has ceased...