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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since early August, 2,855 Youngstown steelworkers and their families have gone on relief (average payment: $20 per month per person), but the strikers on relief, mostly Negroes and Puerto Ricans, make up only 9% of the city's 31,000 steelworkers. The others are scraping along on the savings that they hoarded up in anticipation of the strike and on the liberal credit granted by Youngstown's strike-seasoned merchants...
...foolish to station six or seven people earning $1.30 per hour or more, behind a counter to dish out food when three could do an adequate job. An automatic milk dispenser would serve as well as a part-time employee--and is there a real need to station a person behind the coffee urn at luncheon when one-fifth or less of the students may want a hot drink? Since labor does make up such a large part of the board rate, primary economies should be made in this direction...
...with food. There would be no need for a serving line--and thus the number of servers could go down. The second idea involved buffet-style dining. Servers would dole out meat, soup, and possibly dessert to people in the line; for all other items on the menu-each person could serve his own portion...
From the point of cutting food costs at the same time, the buffet plan has a distinct advantage. If a person, say, did not appreciate creamed cauliflower, he would not be forced to take some as would happen with the pre-filled tray. The amount of food prepared might be reduced, and almost certainly the amount thrown away would be minimized. Result: less expenditure for labor, and possibly less for food, with the added advantage of individually-determined servings...
...Annex, each on-campus resident must work a certain number of hours per week, either at bell duty or waiting on tables. Taylor conceded such an idea would require detailed planning, but with so many students in each House, he per person...