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Until two years ago Reuters got substantial revenue from the worldwide sale of news. War has cut off its market in Europe and China and has forced it to meet subsidized competition of Axis news agencies (DNB, Stefani, Domei) elsewhere, particularly in South America. War vastly increased the cost of coverage for Reuters as it has done for all press associations...
...Union defended its move by claiming that waitresses and cooks find it hard to get a job during the summer. "We have to eat 365 days in the year," said Stefani, "and because of this Harvard employees should have a higher wage level. The University pays its officers a yearly salary whether students are here...
...middle of last April, Stefani announced that he had reached an agreement with the University by which union workers in the dining halls would be compelled to pay their dues by April 30 or else be subject to dismissal...
...They're all willing to join up when we offer the four dollars a week more pay, uniforms free and laundered by the University, a $50 sick benefit, and $150 to their families in case of death," Stefani explained at the time. "Then, in a little while, they begin to backslide on their $1.50 a month dues. Till this month, the union had no method of forcing them to play...
More than a year later, last March 26, the A. F. of L. local renewed its contract with the University, and Stefani expressed himself as being "well satisfied with the new agreement". By that time only four percent of the dining hall workers did not belong to the A. F. of L., and it had virtually become a closed shop...