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...have no kick about working conditions at Harvard, but we feel that the college can and should pay us more," a House dining-hall waitress and A.F. of L. member, said yesterday concerning her local's threat to strike Monday unless the University makes certain concessions...
Storm clouds are looming on the congressional horizon as President Roosevelt renews his campaign for an additional $150,000,000 for the W.P. A. Threat of a party split in House and Senate makes the issue one of the most important facing Congress with New Deal forces concentrating on the continuation of the relief program while a militant Republican minority allied with the Anti New Deal Democrats demands a reduced budget regardless is its effect on the delicately balanced relief structure...
...place of the extant unstable system of appointment, the Report recommends the substitution of a three-years term for all full-time appointees. Such a measure would eliminate the threat of dismissal which instructors must now feat at the close of each semester; the resulting increase in stability of working conditions could not help but produce a higher standard of work. As a corollary to this three-year plan, the Union urges that the University decide the question of permanent appointment after an instructor's eighth year of service. A definite policy to the appointees and to the department...
...diplomacy of military threat has had its opportunity, and Rome and Berlin, in spite of their brave words to the contrary, recognize this fact," he concluded...
Nothing could be more indicative of a healthy state of affairs on Harvard's labor front than the threat of a general walk-out which the kitchen and dining-hall workers hurled at the University early yesterday morning. Hasty, aggressive and doubtless ill-considered, it nevertheless showed a majority of workers democratically exerting their rights without fear of reprisal: in short, the ideal personnel...