Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation, the Mole of a year ago would still be a vast improvement. In Washington, D. C. the Free Press and the Quicksilver Times still fill their pages with full page pictures of nude couples and psychedelic judges. It is not the kind of information on which a university strike could be waged, much less the revolution they say they advocate...
During the last spring's strike, the Mole came close to the concept of a revolutionary newspaper. It reported facts which it felt would clarify the issues, and by the nature of the information, move the populace toward militant action. Its publication of the stolen documents from University Hall sharpened the struggle. Although it did not report about the split within the Strike Committee between WSA and the New Left Caucus, the Mole successfully avoided becoming solely a propaganda tool. It provided news which could be obtained from no other source. Its factual accuracy helped to maintain its credibility...
...aftermath of the Student strike, the string of investigating committees began to proliferate. First the Faculty appointed the Committee of 15, composed of both students and faculty, with the triple purpose of investigating causes, disciplining students, and recommending changes in Harvard's governance. Immediately after, the Freund Committee, headed by Law Professor, Paul Freund, began to study the possible "misconduct" of 14 teaching fellows or faculty members arrested during the take-over of University Hall...
During the Truman Administration, Dunlop served on panels which investigated the 1950 coal miners' strike and mediated labor disputes for the Atomic Energy Commission. He was also chief arbitrator for the construction industry from 1948 until 1957, and President Eisenhower named him chairman of an emergency fact-finding commission during a railroad strike...
...Friendly Committee, headed by Judge Henry J. Friendly, was created in the middle of the April strike to study "those factors in the University and in society which made possible the recent events and to recommend such action as may be appropriate...