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With the exception of some scuffles in the late 1930's, Harvard's labor relations with its employees have been comparatively peaceful. This spring, however, Harvard--for the first time in its history--had to put up with picket lines around the University...
...time guards. Garbage was another matter. One East Side matron, accustomed to having the trash picked up twice daily from her back door, shrilled: "But where do I take it?" Many took it to their front sidewalks, but since sanitation-department drivers-good unionists all-refused to violate the picket lines, ripening hillocks of garbage forced nose-holding pedestrians into the street. Some West Siders demonstrated their disgust by instituting communal "toss-outs," and the heaps of cans, bottles and more malodorous detritus on the streets made much of the city look more like Marrakesh than Manhattan. Atop a garbage...
...union's officers notified the membership over the weekend to report this morning for picket duty. According to BGMA officers, the strike was called because of Harvard's "refusal to bargain with the BGMA's [collective bargaining] representatives, the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council...
Since the strike is being backed by an AFL-CIO affiliate, the University's cooks and serving ladies, all of whom are AFL-CIO members, normally would respect the picket lines. However, because most of the dining halls are closing tomorrow, the BGMA does not expect the kitchen personnel to respect the picket lines...
Teamsters usually respect picket lines, and the BGMA expects all deliveries to the University to end. Furthermore, much of the construction work being done by outside contractors is expected to stop...