HLU to Mobilize Students Against Labor Curb Laws

In a drive to mobilize student opinion against impending restrictive labor legislation, the Labor Rights Committee of the Harvard Liberal Union, meeting yesterday afternoon in Little 21, agreed upon a three-way attack utilizing speakers, press and radio publicity, and pamphlets to bring the issue before the University.

Massachusetts legislation as well as the "omnibus" bill which reaches the House floor today will be hit by the campaign, which aims primarily to call forth letters of protest to Congressmen from individual students.

"We have learned by bitter experience the small regard a Congressman has for mass petitions," said Labor Rights co-chairman Herbert S. Levine '50, "and are changing our tactics accordingly."

HLU will send a speaker to each of the College Houses next week, to outline the issue involved and give the committee's reasons for fighting the labor curbs. Students will receive briefs of the measures now pending in Washington and on Beacon Street, and will be urged to write informed letters of protest to their own Congressmen and Senators.

Tentative plans for a symposium on labor legislation early in May have been made, with Archilbald Cox '34, professor of Law, heading the list of proposed speakers.