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Nearly three months ago student representatives and officials from the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) threatened to set up informational picket lines at today's Commencement exercises if members of the University refused to boycott the dispute-plagued firm of Cotrell and Leonard, the non-unionized manufacturers of Harvard's traditional caps and gowns...
...strike continued and the Faculty passed a couple of partial measures to free students for anti-war activity. Exams were deferred, cancelled or skipped in most cases, although seniors still had to fill requirements and pass courses if they wished to graduate. Amid the potpourri of distractions the "obstructive picket lines," the non-violent direct actions, the Free University in (until it was hit by fire, at whose courtesy one may speculate) Lawrence Hall, the leaflets, the meetings, the rallies, the hearings of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (as in, went SDS chants, "get some feathers, get some...
...Harvard students, a smaller more vocal group will probably linger outside the gates around the Yard to hand out anti-Cotrell and Leonard literature and to enlist support among Commencement participants. Such a group, made up of officials from the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and student sympathizers, picketted Cornell's commencement ceremonies last week. And ILGWU officials have repeatedly warned the Harvard community that if anyone wears Cotrell and Leonard gowns during Commencement, the union will set up "informational picket lines...
...Klux Klansmen have paraded around Florida lately, dispensing their old nativist bile and giving a bad name to an argument (AMERICA FOR AMERICANS, the picket signs say) that has more thoughtful and respectable proponents. The New Republic's columnist, TRB, a voice of intelligent liberalism, writes with some truculence: "Sooner or later, America must face reality. It is going to be painful ... The trouble is that huddled masses need jobs. The American frontier (worse luck) is gone." The American ideal of endless hospitality and refuge presupposed perpetually expanding resources. Now, says the argument, an emerging order of scarcity mandates...
...seat on the Chrysler board is a major milestone for the U.A.W., which organized auto-industry workers 45 years ago after a series of bloody picket-line battles with the major car companies. Nonetheless, Eraser's appointment has drawn little support from either corporate executives or other labor union leaders. Scoffed General Motors Chairman Thomas A. Murphy: "It makes as much sense as having a member of GM's management sitting on the board of an international union." Some rank-and-file members of Eraser's own union remain suspicious about his getting too close to management...