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Rumors that this year's Freshman class is the dullest in recent years were blasted yesterday when University Hall released statistics of the mid-year grades. Although the number of "C" marks has declined from 46.7 to 44.5 percent, the number of honor grades has increased from 35.2 to 37.4 percent...
Labor leaders on the other hand insisted that the 300 A.F. of L. employee of the University has spoken and that "they won't yield an inch." They claimed their demand for a closed shop was justified, pointing out that the 10 percent who have not joined the union are enjoying the benefits of the Federation's bargaining and yet are refusing to contribute their share...
...strongly entrenched unions in the University dining halls today threatened to strike unless College officials conceded their demands for higher wages and a closed shop. As a result of a secret, almost unanimous vote late Monday night the cooks and waitresses, who represent 90 percent of Harvard's kitchen workers, decided to walk out on Monday unless the officials capitulate immediately...
...cooks and waitresses pay the union 75 cents a month and want their money's worth. For this reason labor representatives have not stopped at a reasonable agreement. Their current demands not only ask for what amounts to a 50 percent wage increase over the 1937 level, but also attacks the University's cherished pension plan and its aversion to a closed shop. True to the history of American labor, the locals are taking a mile. Or trying...
...Sixty-nine percent of all rural homes have radios, highest sectional percentage, 96%, prevailing on the Pacific Coast, lowest, 53%, in the South. Of the rural radio families, 82.1% have automobiles, 16.5% of them with radios. Some farmers have sets in barns, on tractors and even in backhouses...