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presently on strike against winds and ice cream parlors in Berkeley win their battle. Customers will receive such improvement in services as no long waiting lines and an increase in the number of flavors available and possibly rock music playing in the background while they're being served. Mm

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hmm. Give me 10 minutes. Our most important point, I guess is the wages. It's very difficult to live in Berkeley on a dollar 65 an hour with rents increasing and food prices increasing and uh, and going to school at the

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same time, most of the people of Swenson's used their wages to support themselves. And it's, as the sign says, it's a little difficult to do $1.65. That's our major point. Are there any other issues involved? Yes, there's, there's a larger issue of the way student employees

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are treated in Berkeley, their wages and the conditions under which they work. Uh, in general, the way it works is that employers shovel their profits into their own pockets instead of improving the conditions of their workers. And, and that's an issue of our strike as well.

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How many people are out on strike here? of 25 employees? 24 out on strike? Mm hmm. The workers were on strike. So they're making a dollar 65 an hour now. And would like a dollar 75. Do you think this is unreasonable. No, most of them are

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at a dollar 75. Now. The demands called for a dollar 75 for the 1st 20 hours, I think, Which would be just a few days. And then it would jump to $2 with a maximum of 2 75. I couldn't meet these demands and stay in business.

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Would also the students view this as the beginning of a possible organized effort against merchants in this university area where they say students are low paid. Do you think that it has that importance? Yes, I'm afraid so. There's an awful lot of bitterness in Berkeley right

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now on the part of students, they feel that they're being exploited and taken advantage of by. Well from many sources, the landlords in particular, the general cost of living, food and rest. And the time has come when they have to strike out for themselves. And I

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have every sympathy with this. I can understand that. Oh, I don't know what I can do about it. Do you plan The idea of an ice cream scooper strike would really be amusing if it were not for the serious fact that the 25 students who are

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on strike or fired now have no financial means of getting along. And if it weren't for the fact that if the strike is successful or the demands met. Store owner Angus Greenlaw says that he will lose everything he owns undoubtedly.

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This is just the beginning of the great scoopers unions organizing efforts. They feel that most students in Berkeley are underpaid. The real test will come on monday when the store reopens. That's when students will have to decide whether to cross the picket line Velvet Davis for

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