Waitresses, Kitchenworkers Forced To Pay Union Back Dues by April 30

"Harvard and M.I.T. are the only two employers that play ball one hundred per cent with our union," Joseph Stefani, secretary-treasurer of the Cooks' and Pastry Cooks' Union, said yesterday.

On March 24, Aldrich Durant '02, business manager of the University, signed a contract with Stefant and the Waitresses' Union which makes Harvard, the employer, virtual policeman for labor. Beginning on April 30, the University will make union members pay their dues by using the force of dismissal.

This means that approximately one hundred waitresses and kitchen workers must others pay all back dues up to twelve dollars or leave both employers' kitchens and employees' unions.

"They're all willing to join up when we offer them four dollars a week more pay, uniforms free and laundered by the University, a $50 sick benefit, and $150 to their families in case of death," explained Stefani. "Then, in a little while, they begin to backslide on their $1.50-a-month duce. Till this month, the union had no method of forcing them to pay."

The employees who will fill the vacancies will naturally start with the lowest wage on the "step-up" scale, thus saving the University some small amount for the first year or so.

This enforced payment of union dues does not apply either to student or non-union employees. The University agrees, however, that from now on it will give the union applicants "first consideration for any jobs that may be open."

After April 30, therefore, Harvard's cooks, dishwashers, bus-boys, pantry girls, glass and silver girls, butchers, bakers, pot washers, store room men, steam table men, kitchen men, salad men, and short order men in the grilles will no longer be able to cash in on union benefits without taking the responsibility of membership.