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...lucky Snoopy button and a large supply of peanut butter, does not miss the social life that is ruled out by her training regimen. Says she: "There are lots of boys in the training group too, you know." Dianne Holum, a fiercely dedicated competitor who worked as a waitress last year to help finance a three-month training stint in The Netherlands, adds: "I don't mind the sacrifices. An Olympic gold medal is a life's ambition come true." Even so, the demands are such that many young skaters have to drop out of school and study...
...WAITRESSES at Cronin's restaurant first went on strike in the middle of December. At that time owner James Cronin yielded to pressure and agreed to recognize the newly organized Harvard Square Waitresses Organizing Committee (HSWOC). Negotiations then began over the waitresses' 24 demands. But evidently Cronin does not understand the meaning of 'negotiation'; a waitress spokeswoman said last week that he acceded to only one minor demand. He also failed to prepare a list of counter-proposals, breaking an earlier promise. After six weeks of hedging by Cronin, the waitresses had had enough. The picket lines formed again...
HSWOC sees the fight at Cronin's as a first step in a projected drive to organize waitresses at other Square restaurants. Waiting on tables is all too often considered as a demeaning job reserved for women. The low salaries ensure that waitresses must--in the words of waitress organizer Patricia Welch--"bow, scrape and kiss...
...They just want to stay out of it," an unidentified waitress at the Algiers coffee shop blurted out before ducking out for a phone call...
...Erdmann, formerly a waitress at Cronin's, said yesterday that all union member waitresses at the restaurant were fired earlier last week. She said the only reason given by Cronin was that the waitresses were guilty of "conduct while is prejucidial against Cronin's Restaurant...