Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting of the Junior and Senior Common Rooms at 10 a.m. today will consider whether to elect a Houses strike Committee...
...meeting was not a victory because a majority of those present supported continuing the strike. The group at Soldiers' Field was not competent to decide whether the strike should continue, since it included people who did not support the demands which the strike is designed to win. If the strike had "lost" yesterday, it would still not have ended. The strike will not end until the people who support the strike demands decide...
Yesterday's meeting was important, rather, because it clearly indicated the extent of community support for the radical demands and for the strike. Of the six thousand people voting at Soldiers' Field, an overwhelming majority voted to demand that Harvard stop dealing with ROTC. The same majority demanded a meaningful back studies program at Harvard, a restructuring of the decision-making process within the University, and a set of socially conscious policies toward the local community outside of Harvard...
...some 2800 of the people at soldiers' Field declared their willingness to strike until these demands...
...majority of the people gathered in Soliders' Field yesterday afternoon approved by a large voice vote all teaching fellow demands on the University and voted by a much narrower margin to continue the student strike for another three days...