A.F.L. Gives Up Attempts to Form Local Union With Workers Here

A.F.L. organizers have "given up Harvard for a while," the local office said yesterday. Union officials, who last year tried to break the University Employees Representative Association, said they were "too busy elsewhere" to spend time here this year.

But we haven't given up hope, "they added.

Edward Sullivan, head of the local A.F.L. branch, said that employees here "don't know what they're doing or where they're going. We could organize them into one solid unit, instead of the seven they have now, and that would mean they could get what they wanted."

Sullivan tried to form a local here last year because several University employees had complained that they were dissatisfied with the H.U.E.R.A. But the attempts were unsuccessful. Engineers and Buildings and Grounds men did break with the H.U.E.R.A., but formed two independent unions, making a total of seven groups within the University.

"It all depends on the maids," said Sullivan. If we could get them, we could get the rest. But they won't come. You'd never see student porters at Harvard if we had the Union," he added. "That kind of thing just wouldn't happen."