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Lincoln greeted me and took me into the White House kitchen. I don't remember how much I ate. . . . Mr. Lincoln keeps talking, asking me about the battle. I sleep all night there on the kitchen floor...
This means that approximately one hundred waitresses and kitchen workers must others pay all back dues up to twelve dollars or leave both employers' kitchens and employees' unions...
After April 30, therefore, Harvard's cooks, dishwashers, bus-boys, pantry girls, glass and silver girls, butchers, bakers, pot washers, store room men, steam table men, kitchen men, salad men, and short order men in the grilles will no longer be able to cash in on union benefits without taking the responsibility of membership...
Another expense would be the construction of steam table units in the House dining rooms to serve as service counters at which the students would pick up their food. It might be possible to use the present kitchen counters for that purpose and to route the lines of students through one door in the kitchen, past the counter, and out the other door...
...result that the dining room would lose much of its social character. Trays on the tables, and boys carrying food back and forth would add to the confusion. A new system of ventilation would have to be installed over the food counters lest the dining room smell like the kitchen. Members might well be unwilling to ask their guests to come to the House for a meal and sling their own hash. Last but not least is the argument that a self service system would mean the abrupt dismissal of almost all the maids...