Meat Plant Pickets Revived By HLU, Radcliffe Support

Tickets at the Squire meat packing plant got a shot in the arm yesterday morning when 16 College and Radcliffe students joined their lines in support of the eight-week-old strike of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.

The student pickets, led by Roy F. Gootenberg '50, Liberal Union president, marched alongside the meat workers for two hours. Radcliffe was represented by six members of the League for Democracy.

Gootenberg Talks to Rally

During the morning, Gootenberg addressed 200 strikers at a mass demonstration. He told the workers that the HLU backs the union's demand for a 29 cent hourly wage boost.

"The strikers' morale is low," Gootenberg said last night, "and we went down there to get them some publicity--to show some outside support."

Six Cambridge policemen stood by most of the morning, but their activity most of the morning, but their activity was limited to ordering pedestrian and vehicle traffic to keep moving. There was no heckling or singing. Clerks and foremen employed by the company crossed the picket line freely.