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...woman's name is Traudi Schroder, and she is a secretary at Harvard too. She is a German emigrant, 34 years old, and for the time being, devoted to the idea of forming a union for Harvard's 4000-odd clerical and technical workers. The secretaries coming into the room with their lunch trays are here to hear about the unionizing effort...
...sitting next to Schroder, Peter Van Delft, will do most of the talking; he is an organizer of District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America, a New York-based clerical workers' union with which Schroder is affiliated. Van Delft is an extraordinary-looking man, especially when he is sitting down. Although he is short, wears non-descript clothes--corduroy trousers, a shirt open at the neck--and is getting paunchy, he is impressive from the neck up. He has a huge, craggy head and a bushy brown beard that blends into his bushy brown swept-back hair. His eyes...
...District 65 several years ago got the idea of organizing clerical workers in universities. Every organizing meeting is different, of course--the secretaries here are older than their Cambridge counterparts, have been working for Harvard longer and are more suspicious about the idea of joining a union. When Schroder says, in her mild German accent, that District 65 is "the first union that has really looked at women's problems," the secretaries just sit passively. At a Faculty of Arts and Sciences organizing meeting, the women might have murmured their approval...
...Medical Area group, which works cooperatively with the HEOC but maintains a separate unionizing drive, will ask for a union-forming election among Medical Area clerical and technical workers next month, Schroder said...
...Schroder said that if Harvard challenges the Medical Area group's unionizing effort successfully, the two groups will then join forces