C.I.O. Officials Enter Upon Negotiations With Yale

In accordance with the five-clause truce signed last week, Yale University officials and C. I. O., Local 142 yesterday entered upon negotiations for a permanent settlement of the wages, hours, and working conditions grievances of the University employees which resulted in last week's one-day strike.

During the walk-out of maids, maintenance men and janitors, pickets were reaming over the whole Eli campus wearing large placards, while the University supplied beds for non-striking union and non-union men who were working in long overtime shifts to keep electrical facilities running.

Law Professors Strike

Picket lines had a concrete effect on several C. I. O. delivery truck drivers who refused to deliver the goods out of sympathy with their fellow union members, and two Law professors registered their protest against the University by calling off their classes for the duration of the strike.

One, Professor Fred Rodell posted a notice stating, "I have determined to my complete satisfaction that the Union is a bona fide Union representing a clear majority of the service employees, and run neither by Communists nor by racketeers. I therefore intend to respect its picket line. There will be no class in intimation today."

While a temporary compromise is in effect that the Union shall postpone demands for a closed shop and that the University shall not insist on an open shop contract, the two negotiating parties must now reach an amicable agreement, or else it was agreed that the matter be referred to the State Mediation Board, "whose decision shall be final and binding on the University and the Union."

"Union Victory"

After the seven-hour peace conference last week, Yale's Personnel Director R. Carter Nyman said "Yale appreciates the assistance of the State Board, and the attitude of the Union representatives throughout the negotiations. We are happy that the matter has been settled peacefully."

John J. Clark, the C. I. O. organizer, proclaimed, "This is a victory. We have not relinquished anything nor the right to strike. We are going right back to our original proposals of August," which included a 40-hour week, the check-off, union shop, seniority rights, and vacation and sick leave with pay.