Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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There is, nonetheless, a skeleton in the closet: it is social democracy. Here is a problem far more perplexing than any arising from the union. Would there be serious consequences from the assignment of one group of students to wait on another? How real is Harvard democracy? They are questions to be raised, not answered now. Doubtless they are bothering both University Hall and the Student Council committee. To conclude that all would be perfectly tranquil is certainly unrealistic; to say that Harvard would be divided into social castes is to subscribe wholeheartedly to New Haven versions of Harvard life...
...complicated situation, one thing is perfectly clear: that a decision can be reached entirely apart from Union interference. Last March, with undergraduates behind the waitresses, they won many points. But the absurd suggestion that Harvard is not free to hire its students as it chooses will not find such friendly reception. The March contract specifically provides for such a possibility, if further proof were needed. In tenth grade English, it states that the contract applies to workers "except students who are or may be employed . . ." Harvard has granted its workers a mile; it will not be easy for them...
High board rates which, if raised further because of increased costs, would make many Business School students leave the dining-half and find cheaper board, brought about the economies in the labor force which were attacked at a dining-hall help union meeting last week, Wallace B. Donham '98, Dean of the Business School, said in an interview yesterday...
...There is no question in my mind that the contract between the union and the University explicit provides for this," Dean Donham said. He referred to the clause of the contract signed last March which excepts "students in the University who are or may be employed therein as a means on enabling them to pay part of their expenses while studying at the University...
...union leader fear that the gains made last year in wages and bargaining power would be swept away by any such action