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...voted to strike for five days to protest the Indochina War and to support the Mass Hall takeover. A variety of resolutions passed urging students to participate in local antiwar actions, work for antiwar candidates in then upcoming Massachusetts Presidential primary, and support the black students by joining the picket line circulating in front of Mass Hall. It also created a central coordinating committee to direct strike actions...
...meeting adjourned without considering whether to picket classrooms or to demand a release from exam or class obligations. This was largely in remembrance of the fiasco that followed the 1970 strike when students dissipated their energies by trying to persuade classmates not to attend class instead of engaging in constructive antiwar activities...
...participated in a march from the Boston Common to Post Office Square. The next day, Saturday, April 22, many thronged to New York to join 40,000 protesters who clogged the streets there in the largest national antiwar demonstration in almost a year. Others remained behind to man the picket line in front of Mass Hall. Still others were out in the hustings for antiwar primary candidates Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.) or Rep. Shirley Chisholm...
Dock workers say that they have had their fill of picket lines. Harry Bridges' West Coast longshoremen were out for 134 days before signing their contract; Thomas Gleason's East Coast and Gulf dockers were idle for eight weeks. Though no group won all it wanted, the approved wage raises averaged 12%, far more than the 5.5% that the Pay Board normally allows. The board permitted the outsized gain partly to avoid a strike, and partly because the dockers pledged to raise productivity by changing work rules...
About 75 people marched to University Hall to present the petitions to Dean Dunlop. The group formed a small picket line outside University Hall, and marched for about 20 minutes chanting "Kiss off, Kissinger," while representatives of the Committee presented the petition at Dunlop's office...