Word: unionized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a long and stormy history, the Harvard Union seems finally to have found its place in the College. Originally part of an effort to "democratize" Harvard, the solid building on Quincy Street caromed from function to function for almost thirty years. Then in 1931 it entered its present role as freshman dining half and more important, as the center for most organized freshman activities...
...beginning however, the Union promised to be the fulfillment of a furious crusade for democracy in the College. The turn of the century saw Harvard wrestling with a two-fold problem: high school graduates and scholarship students lived in the economical Yard, while the rich moved off to "Gold Coast" quarters on Massachusetts Avenue and Mount Auburn Street: moreover, find and "waiting" clubs were forming, with luxurious new clubhouses also erected on Mount Auburn Street. Harvard College, both physically and socially was splitting into two camps...
...site proved the initial trial to Harvard University democracy: Gold Coasters pressured for a Massachusetts Avenue site, while Yard dwellers suggested a lot near Memorial Hall. In a gesture of compromise, the building was erected on Quincy Street, a four-minute walk for both rich and poor. The Harvard Union's dedication in 1902 was an impressive display of class and College spirit. Poet Charles Warren breathed...
...than ever to the harsh pressures of supply and demand. In 1961, when the world wheat glut reached a record 1 billion bushels, the surplus consisted exclusively of U.S. and Canadian produce stored at North American facilities. Today, surpluses are also piled high in Australia, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Soviet Union and Common Market countries. Most of the new exporters lack both the storage capacity and the inclination to retain their surpluses in order to stabilize world prices. As a result, the 1968 International Grains Arrangement, which was aimed at fixing minimum world prices, has all but collapsed...
...untrained and inefficient workers. The Government collects no figures on job vacancies to match against its thorough reports on the number of workers unemployed. More surprising, no one really knows how rapidly wage costs are rising this year. The Government currently tallies only wage-and-benefit gains in union contracts covering 5,000 or more workers, and these contracts affect only 10% of the U.S. Labor force. Fuller wage data is compiled only yearly, if that often, and it does not cover fringe benefits. No figures at all are collected on the pay of state or local government employees, although...