'Cliffe Democracy League, HLU, Bolster Picket Lines

There's nothing like a feminine smile and a girlish yell to dress up a dreary picket line, as strikers at the Squires meat packing plant in East Cambridge will find out this morning.

At 8 o'clock, half a dozen placard-toting members of the Radcliffe League for Democracy, accompanied by an equal number of men from the Liberal Union, set out from the Harvard Square kiosk to march alongside the United Packing-house Workers of America in a demonstration of "support and goodwill" towards an eight-week-old nation-wide strike of the meat industry.

According to the HLU, the CIO union is striking for "a 29 cent hourly wage increase in order to bring the wages of the highest-paid third of its workers up to the Bureau of Labor Standards minimum for the urban worker--$66 per week." A packers' counter offer of nine cents has been turned down by the union.

First Picketing in Year

Today's action marks the first time since the Club 100 incident last spring that the HLU has taken to a picket line. A unanimous resolution of the organization last Thursday night voiced support for the strikers' demands. The HLU pickets will bear signs declaring "Students Back Wage Demands" and "Radcliffe Supports Strike."