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...recognition of the necessity of wage rises to meet inflated living costs and again in its tardy acceptance of the principle of the five-day week the University has come a long way from the almost feudal attitude it has indicated toward labor problems in the past. And the announced intention of the dining hall department to recruit a sufficient number of additional employees removes the possibility of the old employer racket of merely spreading workers thinner on the same jobs after a reduction in hours...
Dining hall workers have won a revision of their existing contract with the University, Edward Reynolds '15, Administrative Vice-President, announced yesterday. The revision, which will take effect immediately, will lead to a five-day work week in place of the present six-day week, with no loss of take-home...
Before this five-day week becomes an actuality for the A. F. of L. unions which have represented the dining hall workers here since 1938, the dining hall department of the University will have to recruit 16 percent more employees than it has at present, Reynolds said, and in the meantime the current workers will continue on the six-day week at straight time...
Ballyhoo for the Harvard Dramatic Club production, "Adam the Greater," reached national proportions this week-end as the University thespians prepared to open tonight for a five-day run in Sanders Theatre...
...drawer messages were heavy with the economic lore behind the $3,750,000,000 credit and its wedded trade agreements. During the final five-day debate the House focused more attention on political expediency. Commented the New York Herald Tribune: "The honorable gentlemen no longer have their minds on the arguments; they have their fingers on the popular pulse...