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Student porters will not replace maid service next year, Daniel G. Mulvihill, Harvard Employees' Union head predicted yesterday...
Mulvihill, in the union's first statement since vice-President Reynolds announced that student porters may be used instead of maids, said that he was "confident that the maid contract will be settled to the satisfaction of both University and union--and I am also confident that there will be maid service next year...
...most recent agreement between union and University was reached last spring when a five-day work week for the maids brought an hourly wage increase from 75 to 82 cents. Mulvihill noted that "with the four-cent weekly pay increase the University ceased to engage the usual number of maids, increasing the work of each maid by adding an average of four extra students to those whom she already had been working...
...present amount of work asked of each maid and the supervised inspection of their work has caused many to leave their jobs, said Mulvihill...
When union president Daniel G. Mulvihill requested another wage increase for University maids, he did not expect to touch off a purge of gracious living. But the University immediately announced its favor toward the Tech plan of a porter service, of, by, and for the students. The traditional Harvard maid was dusting on towards extinction...