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...first man to be tried for violating the 1980 draft-registration regulations. Eller, a member of the pacifist Church of the Brethren, offered no formal defense during the 3½ hour trial last week. "God called me not to register," he explained to District Court Judge James Turk...
...minds of tenant activists, however, perhaps HRE's most grievous offense is its staunch refusal to recognize the existence and legitimacy of the Harvard Tenants Union, now about a year-and-a-half old. "They seem to hope we go away," Turk said shortly after the union's first anniversary...
Last February, Turk mailed a letter to Zeckhauser asking her to "sit down with representatives of the union in an effort to reconcile differences." Zeckhauser ignored the return address listed on Turk's letter--the official address of the union--and sent her response to Turk's personal address. She did not directly refuse Turk's request for a meeting but stated that HRE responds only to "specific complaints and suggestions from specific tenants about their individual units and building common areas affecting them." She said in a subsequent interview that HRE would not alter its stance and recognize...
...traditional attempt at union-busting. And they find little comfort in Zeckhauser's suggestion that it tenants become dissatisfied with HRE's treatment, they can be "adequately protected by local and state laws administered by a wide variety of government agencies," including the Cambridge Rent Control Board Turk and other tenants point out that because of HRE's financial resources and its ability to hire attorneys, there is no balance in court or rent board fights between Harvard and tenants...
...They seem to hope we go away." Michael Turk, coordinator of the Harvard Tenants' Union