Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a minority vote of 23 out of 87 voting the Leftists were defeated by a wide margin in their proposal to place the Union on record as defending Soviet action "as a necessary measure for self-defense." Wild applause and some heckling characterized the meeting and grew with the introduction and discussion of the amendments following the officership elections...
...views of the three Presidential candidates closely followed the three resolutions in nature. Alan Gottlieb '41 came out against Russian aggression, and was elected President. David Fleischman '41 supported the Soviet, and G. Robert Stange '41 declared that the Union should refrain from expressing sentiment on either side...
...after 10 o'clock when the instructions of delegates in regard to policy came up. Perlman read and argued for the following resolution: "Resolved. That the Harvard Student Union condemns the Russian aggression against Finland, and at the same time condemns those who would use this incident in an attempt to drag us into...
Olum, vice-president of the Union, then offered the following compromise resolution, which was later passed in addition to Periman's: "Since the actions of the Roosevelt administration and the American newspapers with the regard to the Russian-Finnish situation may serve to involve the United States in the war on the side of England and France by breaking down the intense desire of the American people for peace...
...Therefore the Harvard Student Union protests the Administration's request for a moral embargo imposed against the Soviet Union, and opposes the proposed loan to Finland of $70,000,000 to the Finnish government and the proposed moratorium on Finnish war debts...