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...counter-exam on Vietnam, published by members of Students for a Democratic Society, is their most effective written protest to date. The publication, which was distributed to students on their way to Saturday's draft deferment exam, is a shocking, informative, documented presentation of the SDS position on the Vietnamese war, posed in question answer form. Paul Booth, National Secretary of SDS and one of the authors of the exam, said when he was last at Harvard, that SDS's tactics were to hit people in the vitals; by handing out the exam while students waited in line...
About 40 off-duty workers, representing the Jewish Memorial Hospital Workers' and Patients' Betterment Association, joined the 12 SDS demonstrators. Many carried signs reading, "$40 a week is not a living wage," "Time and a half for overtime," and "Together...
Emily S. Perkins '66, chairman of the SDS labor committee, has been working closely with the Workers' Association for about a month. Last week SDS helped the Association draw up a list of demands. These included a minimum wage of $1.65 per hour, time and a half for overtime, and Blue Cross-Blue Shield protection for all employees...
...Monday, hospital director Murray Fertel fired Keaty for attempting to organize the workers. The Association met with SDS again Monday night and decided to picket the hospital for the rest of the week. If Fertel does not offer to recognize the Association, Keaty said, "we'll have to try more drastic measures...
...SDS representatives suggested an immediate walk-out, but Keaty insisted that to abandon the patients would attract unfavorable publicity and allenate uncommitted employees. Instead, he advised pulling out non-essential workers, such as porters and kitchen employees, to fore the hospital to bring in expensive catering and housecleaning contractors...