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...their meeting-room in Cypress Hall, Central Square, early in the year 1939, Locals 112 and 186 of the American Federation of Labor met to approve a tentative contract with the University asking for a closed shop in Harvard Dining Halls and demanding wage increases up to eight dollars a week...
...March 13 the Union announced it would give the University "until 12 o'clock tonight" to make its decision and draw up a satisfactory contract. On the following day, the strikers reluctantly agreed to postpone their strike for 36 hours...
More than a year later, last March 26, the A. F. of L. local renewed its contract with the University, and Stefani expressed himself as being "well satisfied with the new agreement". By that time only four percent of the dining hall workers did not belong to the A. F. of L., and it had virtually become a closed shop...
...contract set up a wage scale providing minimum wages and hours for 27 classes of dining hall employees, ranging from the vegetable cooks to the glass and silver polishers. The basic minimum wage for waitresses is $14 for the first year of service, with a graded increase until it reaches $16 at the end of four successive years of employment...
...housemaid; the concertmaster, a welterweight boxer. Songster for the Young Americans is Carolyn Cromwell, redhaired, 19-year-old Kansan. The orchestra has already made its first recordings; when RCA Victor's Music Director Charles O'Connell heard the Young Americans rehearsing, he put them under five-year contract. Because a radio sponsor is eyeing them, the Young Americans have made only one concert date, for their Manhattan debut next month...