AFL Renews Campaign for Local Branch

American Federation of Labor organizers may reopen their campaign to form a local for University maids and janitors. Boston A.F.L. secretary Edward Sullivan said last night. The A.F.L. tried unsuccessfully to organize here last spring.

Sullivan said he "heard that employees at Harvard want more money." He added that if Daniel G. Mulvihill, president of the University Employees Representatives Association, couldn't get it for them, he could.

"We've been handling college maids and janitors all around Boston for a long time," said Sullivan. "We started at M.I.T. and did so well that other schools asked us to come in. We can handle Harvard, too."

The A.F.L. came to the University last spring on rumors of "employee's dissatisfaction." Organizers held a meeting and tried to persuade maids and janitors to leave the H.U.E.R.A. The movement failed.

"If we could get the maids," said Sullivan, "the janitors would follow along, too. But it's hard to get the maids to make the break."

Sullivan said he expected no trouble this year if the University refuses to satisfy the H.U.E.R.A.'s latest wage boost request.