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...submit the matter to binding arbitration, consistently refused to involve students in open discussions of the matter, and consistently refused to yield on wage demands until after the embarrassing arrests. Further, the university attempted to break the union by keeping a non-union dining hall open during the walkout; students sympathetic to the strike but unable to afford weeks of off-campus meals, were forced to cross picket lines. During a similar strike at the University of Pennsylvania last year, the university closed its dining halls and paid students to eat off-campus until the strike was settled...
Instead, the impetus for the student protest came--as it did in Brown's 1975 anti-tuition-hike student walkout--from a small, active group of students. Bicks estimates that of Brown's approximately 4000 students, "only about 1000" actively support the union in the strike...
...contract negotiations began June 3, the same day Harvard announced it was suspending three shop stewards--including Balsam--for their roles in a May lunch-hour walkout. That action followed a dispute between Balsam and the manager of the College Dining Hall over the serving of hamburgers...
...loss of business to the competition if it alone was struck, would do its best to meet labor's demands. Talks began in July, and Ford, as is the custom, presented a skimpy mettle-testing counteroffer to the U.A.W.'s platform. No problem so far; a walkout still seemed remote...
...South Carolina's Republican Senator Strom Thurmond is the man who, as a Democratic Governor in 1948, led a Southern walkout in protest against a civil rights plank in the national Democratic platform. Running for President as a Dixiecrat, Thurmond carried four Deep South states. He switched to the Republican Party in 1968, and later became an architect of Richard Nixon's 1972 "Southern strategy." Today he eagerly displays to visitors in his office a two-page list of "accomplishments in behalf of blacks." Items: "Assisted Mrs. Victoria DeLee in expediting day-care funds for Dorchester County"; "Cosponsored bill...