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...fall of 1941 the CIO was running an organizing campaign at the Bethlehem Fore River Shipyard. Many Harvard men may remember that a Fore River Student Labor Committee was organized here to help the union in canvassing workers, passing out leaflets, and other educational work. Over a hundred men participated...
...CIO union lost the NLRB election that year, and the yard has remained unorganized. But this fall the two years which the Wagner Act demands must elapse between NLRB plant elections will be up, and the CIO has already started a new organizing drive. And the task is all the more important today because of the disgraceful production muddle existing at Fore River, of which much-publicized "absenteeism" is one manifestation. It is imperative that a responsible union become bargaining agent for the workers if the problems which now cripple production are to be solved...
...unions at fault, and neither the CIO nor the AF of L have any national ruling against Negro workers. In fact, the CIO is actively engaged in stamping out such practices whenever they are noticed. The AF of L is the main offender. Labor leader Green merely shrugs his shoulders and pleads impotence when a union under his organization such as Kaiser's record-breaking shipbuilders refuse an equal voice to all races. Negroes can join and pay dues, but they have to hold separate meetings and they are allowed no representation in national conventions...
...would desecrate November 11, were met by the statement that the talk was in no way an Armistice Day address. The University took no action and the speech will go on as scheduled. Bridges, who is attending a luncheon in his honor tomorrow, will be in town for the CIO convention...
...meeting, which comes at 8 o'clock and is open to the public, is under the join auspices of the Liberal Union and the Harvard Teachers Union. Bridges will be in Boston to attend the annual CIO convention...