Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
WASHINGTON--A bold plan by the Congress of Industrial Organizations to restore labor peace by welding all union groups into a new "American Congress Of Labor," was rejected tonight by American Federation of Labor negotiators who branded it "fanciful" and designed for "headline purposes...
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...
Behind it lies a story that can be duplicated wherever labor has organized. Once upon a time, the drawers of water and others who did menial jobs for Harvard were not treated in accordance with the liberal doctrines being taught in Sever and Emerson. There were even law suits, and the result was a lot of bad publicity for the University and a distrust on the part of employees which survived the advent of a more benign policy...