Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After an hour-long meeting with the University-wide Committee on Discrimination and another hour of executive session, the Cambridge Civic Unity League last night declared themselves to be solidly behind the sentiment of the Club 100 protest...
Condemning the Club 100 for discriminatory practices in another resolution, Local 431 became the first faculty group to support the earlier student-wide protest. "The policy of the student committee is in complete accord with our own previous stands on racial questions," a Union spokesman said...
...also announced the existence of a report compiled on information filed by Hallowell Bowser '44 that he had been denied admission to the club last November. Bowser, along with Chester M. Pierce '48, was blocked at the door last Saturday night, precipitating a Student Council protest...
Without a Murmur. The CCF, which feels the standard socialist urge for state trading, thought this was wonderful. No one was surprised at that. The surprise was that men who believed in free enterprise and free trading swallowed the bill without a murmur. The only loud protest came from the Progressive Conservatives in Parliament who cried that the "Government was out to outsocialize the socialists." But the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, which represents the farmers, announced that they were "100% behind the bill." The Government had counted on the farmers' long-standing dislike of the feast or famine days...
...Buffalo was over, but the war went on. In Atlantic City, a committee of the powerful National Education Association (341,000 members) warned against any ban on teachers' strikes. Said the committee: "Teachers must not be coerced into working for substandard wages with no way of making effective protest." In New York City, where several of the city's teachers' groups began talking strike, Superintendent John Wade sent a carefully phrased note to all 34,000 teachers. He approved, he said, of the continued "professional campaign" for higher pay, but nervously threatened that "any other course...