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Gusmorino's worst moment occurred on April 22, when the council contentiously voted to condemn the Progressive Student Labor Movement for its Mass. Hall sit-in. Gusmorino was left exasperated as some council members attempted to disrupt the council's quorum by walking out of the meeting while others tried...
Throughout the course of the sit-in, Cambridge Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio regularly made appearances at PSLM? rallies, speaking vehemently against the Harvard Corporation and urging the University? governing bodies to follow the city? lead.
But student activists said they felt that the wage increases were moving too slowly and staged a sit-in last spring that resulted in the Johns Hopkins administration promising to accelerate the move to $7.75.
While the coalition existed even before PSLM? formation, the alliance between the student activists and labor unions became most pronounced during the sit-in. ...
Most powerfully, AFL-CIO president John J. Sweeney came to speak at the sit-in? largest rally, pledging his support to the students inside the building and lauding them for their courage.