Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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January 12: One hundred teaching fellows signed a petition saying they would strike if Paine Hall demonstrators were suspended. But the list of petition signers remained a secret, as those who circulated the petition said they would release the names only if it become "necessary to get a strike organized...
...MUST be said, in the administration's defense, that Harvard officials had a lot of things to do during April besides catering to the press. But the lack of professionalism which attended Harvard's treatment of reporters during the strike was just a symptom of a deeper and growing alienation and distrust between Harvard officials and reporters...
...April, there was a telephone strike and several Harvard students joined non-Union operators in helping to break the strike. The Mayor of Cambridge and several of the Union operators wrote letters to the CRIMSON denouncing the students...
...CRIMSON agreed that the students should not interfere, because, "Beyond the effect on themselves is the effect upon the reputation of the University. Harvard all too often is considered reactionary; too often are we named--and wrongly--a breeding place for capitalism. We need not favor the strike, but it is essential that our individual acts do not prejudice the University in the minds of the public...
...example, had an actual dream that really happened to me while I was asleep in my bed. This dream was that Harvard SDS and the Harvard workers--buildings and grounds, the kitchen people, and others--got together and formed a worker-student alliance. They went on a general strike together, and the workers were going around slamming kids on the back saying what loyal friends they were. Now that idea struck me, even while I slept, as being genuinely funny...