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Labelled the "Cambridge Cowboys" by a Fore River scab labor paper, 50 Harvard and Radcliffe students canvassing Bethlehem shipyard workers in the interests of the CIO found themselves this week in the thick of a closely-fought battle which will culminate in the NLRB elections on October...
...Fore River Weekly," in opposition to the CIO's attempts to gain a union shop in the Quincy shipbuilding yards warned the workers yesterday against the "pink boys and girls of Harvard, M.I.T., Radcliffe and Simmons". "Oh, dear! What next?" the paper commented...
Accompanying the "pink" boys and girls, I found that they were sometimes greeted by, "Get out. So you want my husband to join the CIO! Get out!", well garnered with expletives in Italian, Swedish or American. Usually I found that the workers received the students very hospitably and would often invite us in for dinner, tea, or a drink of Italian wine...
...couples consisting of a boy and a girl will interview every employee and his family in each of the six Quincy awards affected. The men will talk things over together, while the women will withdraw to another part of the room and do the same. Suggestions received from the CIO hint that it is often more advisable to convince the wife, since she can bring greater pressure to bear...
...CIO victory is practically assured," declared Robert H. Orcliard '42, one of the ward captains, "because Bethlehem has come out in favor of giving the CIO what they want." Since all the other Bethlehem plants on the eastern coast are already under the CIO, or will be soon, Orchard said the company would prefer to have all its units organize rather than being forced to figure a system of wages...