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More than 1000 undergraduate and graduate students have signed a petition urging the University to be neutral in the upcoming vote on unionization of Harvard's 4000 clerical and technical workers, petition supporters said yesterday.
The petition, sponsored by the Committee for Economic Change (CEC), asks the University not to engage in anti-union activities and not to delay the union election, said Kimberly F. Ladin '87-'88, co-chairman of CEC.
Disney filed a petition with the City Council this week asking for cooperation fromthe city and its residents. At their regularmeeting on Monday night, Council members gave CityManager Robert M. Healy the power to grant therequest.
The Rev. Khoza Mgojo, head of the Methodist Church, said the petition would be mailed to Botha. The document was drenched during the confrontation.
In the petition addressed to President P.W. Botha and Parliament, the churchmen said in part: "No matter the consequences, we will explore every possible avenue for continuing the activities which you have prohibited other bodies from taking."