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...about 40 pounds, suffered vitamin deficiencies and the raft-man's excruciating equivalent of bed sores, their condition was far from critical when they were picked up by a Korean fishing boat 1,500 miles from the site of the sinking. The Baileys-he, a 42-year-old printer's clerk and she, a 33-year-old tax officer-were not particularly well equipped. Before Auralyn sank, they salvaged 33 cans of food, ranging from steak-and-kidney-pie filling to treacle, along with a variety of plastic containers for collecting rain water, a knife and a handful...
HARVARD'S JUSTIFICATIONS for the wage differential are as slick as those it invoked in 1929 to justify firing the janitors. Harvard claims that its employees enjoy unusual job security despite the fact that six printers on the night shift were permanently laid off several years ago due to automation. Harvard claims that its new pension plan, by ending the traditional $3.50 worker contribution to the fund, means that the workers are actually getting a 7-per-cent wage increase in each of the next two years. The strikers have a different viewpoint. The plan under which Harvard...
Instead of mutual denunciations or at least mutual indifference, coalitions among Harvard political organizations have been multiplying faster than Popular Front sliderules. The pro-printer coalition includes NAM, the Party for Workers Power, the Third World Coalition, and the Democratic Socialists. For all these groups even to talk with one another would have been almost unthinkable as recently as last fall, when the Democratic Socialist president mounted his attack. Perhaps even more importantly, no one seems especially interested--after a long time during which factional infighting consumed much of what political activity Harvard saw (and it surely saw much less...
...They have the same types of complaints on wages as do the printers, and there is the second factor of union solidarity," Luther M. Ragin Jr. '76, said yesterday. Ragin is acting as a liason between all organizations supporting the printer's strike. Union officials were unavailable for comment...
Should the typists vote to join local 300 and agree to support the strike, the outside company that prints The Gazette probably would support the strike. Unionized printers around Boston have been respecting the printer's strike at Harvard by turning down University printing contracts, Ragin said...