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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John L. Lewis learned in 1947 that it is dangerous to play fast & loose with the courts. The lesson cost him and his United Mine Workers $710,000. Last week, therefore, ordered by a federal judge, he sullenly appeared before a presidential fact-finding board and explained his version of the coal dispute...
...Government went to court and got a temporary restraining order, a necessary preliminary to obtaining an 80-day injunction under the Taft-Hartley Act. The court ordered Lewis to refrain "from continuing the strike now in existence." But early this week the miners were still on strike and John L. was closeted with his lawyers...
...contract between the Harvard Club of New York and the Hotel and Club Employees Union (an affiliate of the Hotel Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, A. F. of L.) expired on the 29th of February, 1948. For two weeks preceding the expiration date, the union and the Club met in almost continuous conference in an attempt to reach a settlement; for 18 days after the expiration date, bargaining continued while the employees remained at work under the conditions provided by the old contract. The maximum offer made by the Club was the extension of the expired contract...
...entire Freshman class will gather in Sanders Theatre this morning at 9 o'clock to hear Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School, Frederick L. Hisaw, professor of Zoology, and Delmar Leighton, Dean of Freshmen, explain the mysteries of choosing a field of concentration...
That the Union--an affiliate of the A.F. of L.'s Hotel Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union--contains a minority Communist influence has nothing to do with the issues of the current case. The demands appear to be both just and modest; and the striking methods have been reasonably mild. Should the Club refuse the present offer to arbitrate, alumni throughout the nation should bring pressure to bear on its management. The name of Harvard should not be connected with the sort of cutthroat labor practices that such a refusal would make evident...