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...Suspends All in Building; OBU Held Faculty Club Earlier
...Nearly 100 members of the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) occupied University Hall for four and a half hours today, but left peacefully after the University obtained a temporary restraining order against the demonstration...
...order named six members of OBU and Afro-Leslie F. Griffin, Phillip N. Lee, Gregory K. Pilkington, Edward Sanders-Bey, Roderick J. Harrison, and Mark D. Smith-and applies to all others in University Hall as well. The text of the order, which went into effect immediately, is "to keep them from occupying, trespassing, or remaining in or about University Hall, the Gund Hall construction site, the Faculty Club, or any other building or premises of the President and Fellows of Harvard College...
...administration has repeatedly failed to deal seriously with the issues OBU has raised. There are some outstanding examples: One of the University's arguments in saying it could not agree to a 20 per cent figure on construction sites was that the United Community Construction Workers (an organization of black workers whom OBU had said would supply the black work force) could not come up with enough men. The UCCW has never failed to supply the men it promised (at Tufts or elsewhere) and there was no reason to assume it would fail this time. This was a feeble excuse...
...phone call; then that he could not without the consent of the Union; then that Harvard was willing to let a three-man panel from the black Contractors Association of Boston decide the helpers' case, apparently without the union; and now the administration has agreed to add three OBU representatives to that panel. The University seems to have been dodging the issue...