Education: College Strike

One day this week for the first time in the 241-year history of Yale, union pickets marched up & down outside the Yale campus, where townies used to riot. Between 400 and 450 of Yale's 690 chambermaids, janitors, porters and power-plant workers, organized by C.I.O., had struck for a union shop.

Chambermaids, leaving beds unmade, marched out of the dormitories at 9 o'clock one morning, were joined by most of the university's handymen. A small crew stayed at work in the power plants, keeping Yale lights and heat going, and campus police, who are supernumeraries of the New Haven Police Department, also...

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