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James Fitzgerald, of the Maintenance Department, pro temporo president of the Association, let it be known at the end of the meeting that in the course of the evening he had accepted 54 new applications for membership, swelling the roll from 926 to 980, or approximately 36 percent of the total number of the service employees in the University...
...same time a strong possibility developed yesterday that waitress and cooks, now 85 percent unionized, might stage a "surprise party" on Thursday night at the hall hired for the second meeting of the rival Harvard group...
Figures on the percentage of unionization among House waitresses were disclosed last night. It was also said that 90 percent of the bus boys, cooks, salad men, truckmen, and dishwashers were A.F. of L. members. Statistics follow: Dunster 100% Lowell 100% Leverett 100% Winthrop 80% Kirkland 80% Adams 75% Eliot 4 girls
Measuring up to the predictions of heads of Locals 186 and 112, the strength of the organization appeared to be about 80 percent among waitresses, 90 percent among cooks and kitchen workers...
...same time 100 percent support was given to a motion demanding that all cooks and waitresses wear their union buttons next Monday in a mass demonstration of their strength and overwhelming majority. Joseph Stefani, union leader, claimed that the University had continued to grant concessions, pointing out the straight watch now conceded cooks and the hiring of new help...