Word: plan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pending national legislation on social security, "the question of any changes in the pension plan (will await) further general developments...
...that 85 per cent of the workers are already members of the Union. But concession today cannot be interpreted as indication of probable weakness tomorrow. It was only because of the basic willingness to modify unreasonable demands--for an $18 wage, an immediate closed shop, abolition of the pension plan, and provision for summer employment--that such an eminently satisfactory agreement could be reached...
...must be remembered that every increase will mean either drastic restriction of Temporary Student Employment, or increased dining hall prices, or both. Certainly if the Social Security law is not amended to include educational institutions, the University will be obliged to increase the return now provided by its pension plan and to grant the Union's demand that it be put on a voluntary basis. Perhaps an employment office to provide summer work can be instituted. But if there should be any attempt to use the bargaining power of the closed shop as a big stick with which to beat...
...spite of the example that Harvard's Plan E offers, the Dartmouth faculty bravely comes forth with measures designed to reform governments in Hanover and the environs. So far this crusade has been successful but there are already indications of a growing animosity in the town against college interference. Since experience is probably the only true teacher, it may appear futile for Harvard to tender advice. But the faint hope that Dartmouth will heed this university's career in such spheres justifies some sort of warning...
...continue local reform at the expense of public relations, the chances of a successful drive should be carefully weighed. For it is absurd to create town-gown enmity without some sort of return for the sacrifice. So far it has been all sacrifice for Harvard this winter, as Plan E lies in the graveyard and town animosity has reached an all time high. The spectacle is sad; but, if it serves as an example and warning to Dartmouth, Harvard's suffering has not been entirely in vain...