Word: petitioner
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Dean Elder said yesterday he would accept the Federation as speaking for the teaching fellows who signed the petition, "but certainly not as any sole bargaining agent."
The Federation's three-member executive committee delivered a petition signed by 498 teaching fellows to John P. Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The petition calls on the University to meet with Federation representatives for discussions on increasing teaching fellows' pay and redefining their work...
The resolution, passed by a vote of 9 to 1, endorses U Thant's proposal to end the war, recommends self-determination for the Vietnamese, and pledges support of Sane's petition campaign to stop the bombing of North Vietnam.
The Federation, which grew out of a series of meetings among teaching fellows this fall, set itself up as a formal organization Feb.16. At that meeting, the TF's drew up the petition, and have occupied themselves primarily since then in a campaign to accumulate signatures.
Local demonstrations should be organized including possible local civil disobedience but with a special emphasis on involving and reaching people beyond the usual anti-war constituencies. Petition campaigns might be used to provide popular support for the demand against invasion and to interpret it to large number of people. It...