Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invasion of the union organizers last year began in November when the A. F. of L. locals 186 and 112 launched a drive to sign up 416 workers in the dining halls. Demanding a closed shop, union chairman Joseph Stefani was able to secure a $2 pay increase for kitchen employees on salaries of $20 a week or less...
...December the kitchen workers were about 80 per cent organized under the A. F. of L. and insisting on a closed or preferential shop. The University refused to do anything but recognize the local units as sole bargaining agents, which they were required...
Watching with envy the success of the kitchen workers union and believing that the rest of Harvard's service employees were an easy market for unionizing, local 30 of the A. F. of L., led by international representative Robert H. Everitt announced a drive to sign up maids, janitors and maintenance...
...return march was marked by no event of interest. All were really getting some rest on the way home. A large number were scheduled for "Kitchen police" duty over the week-end for too large a preponderance of "demerits...
...more : sometimes called "Washington Service Station,'' "The Twins of Evil," etc., but better identified as the Administration's unofficial legal firm, Corcoran & Cohen. These persons, with one or two more (see col. 2) constitute what in President Jackson's time was called the Kitchen Cabinet. No name more colorful than the Inner Circle has yet been given this Roosevelt II group - except General Hugh Johnson's accurate but awkward "White House Janizaries...