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When the union first began organizing in 1974, the average salary for a Harvard secretary stood at slightly more than $400 a week. Now the focus has shifted, with District 65 emphasizing fringe benefits and the democratic advantages of unionization. District 65's own periodical pamphlet, The Working Solution, lists tuition assistance and sick pay before wages in its September 30 issue. The passage entitled "Money" states, "We all expect a raise every July," adding that the only times Harvard has granted wage increases besides July 1 came when the threat of the union was heating...
Then, the same pamphlet dispenses a barrage of statistics: It quotes the Bureau of Labor as saying that unionization for clerical workers translates to an average of $47 more per week in pay; it notes that Boston's clerical workers are the fifth-lowest paid of the 15 largest U.S. cities; and it puts forward the alarming fact that 90 per cent of all working women receive no pension whatsoever. Those who do have a pension receive an average of $70 a month less than their male counterparts...
...travel more than 100 miles away to the village of Greenfield, Mass., in the event of a nuclear attack, the city council decided to take a stand. The body refused to distribute the federal plans, and instead assembled its own blueprint for avoiding nuclear disaster: a mass-produced pamphlet detailing the case for disarmament...
...only city liberals, however, have been jumping on the anti-nuke banwagon during this year's campaign. Perceiving the overwhelming popularity of the city's disarmament pamphlet, nearly every incumbent city councilor has attempted to grab a share of the credit for its distribution. city councilors can only gain from supporting students' efforts to stop nuclear research at MIT, Harvard and private laboratories. Because of the non-binding status of Question #3, as well as the potential unconstitutionality of banning all nuclear studies, most older voters will probably shrug off this issue with a laugh...
...possibly two--jobs. Only one, David Wylie, can use the power of an incumbent and he has done it well, staking out his own ground over the past year with a well-publicized campaign against nuclear arms. He has not hesitated to take credit for the pamphlet the council produced, largely at his behest, calling for disarmament. And he has also not hesitated to picture himself as the weakest incumbent, apparently in hopes that supporters of other candidates or undecided voters will come to his aid at the last minute, (a tactic that saved him in 1979). Wylie...