HUERA Elections Called Suspicious

Several University employees are claiming that their union elections last Tuesday, which put Daniel E. Mulvihill back in the president's chair, were not entirely on the up and up. No other name appeared on the ballots but Mulvihill's.

According to Daniel Gannon, assistant superintendant of Winthrop House, another candidate had submitted petitions to run, containing the necessary number of names, to the nominating committee. He was John W. Smith who drove a truck for the Buildings and Grounds Department before he retired in 1948.

The committee wrote Smith a few days before the election saying that he could not run. He asked them why in a return letter, but never got a reply.

Union by-laws forbid a man who has retired from running for the office, but Gannon claims that Mulvihill, himself, is retired.

Gannon planned to run for vice-president but withdrew in favor of Smith.