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Police Check War Plants
As Precaution in Strike

The Police Department will be-
gin a check of the garment sec-
‘tion today to determine. what
concerns are engaged in turning
out war orders in view of the
threatened strike apainst build-
ings in this area by the Building
Service Employes International
Union, American Federation of
Labor. The union served the
customary thirty-day notice of
strike under the provisions of
Smith-Connally Act at a meet-
ing last Friday night.

The strike vote was taken
after negotiations for a new con-
tract with thé Midtown Realty
Owners Association reached an
impasse. The agreement that
expired recently called. for a
forty-six-hour week, but the
workers want this cut to forty
hours. Union agreements with
building owners in other parts
of the city expire on April 20.

 

 

a student, day or night session, at
Brooklyn College.”

The Bromberger report placed
primary responsibility for Pearl-
stein’s presence on the basketball
team on the Department of Hy-
giene and the Faculty Student

they failed to discover the youth’s
disqualification. Secondary blame

registrar’s office for failure to
note that a list of players submit-
ted by the coach disclosed no data
on registration or matriculation.
Dr. Gideonse and other college
officials concerned, the report de-
‘clared, said that their early infor-
mation on the Pearlstein case was
not transmitted because they felt

 

Committee on Athletics, because’

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the Feb. 15 and 16 hearings were
concerned primarily with gam-
bling; because the inquiry into
Pearlstein’s status was not com-
plete, although there was “infor-
mal” knowledge of it the first week
in February, and because Dr. Gid-
eonse intended to make the facts
public himself but wanted to delay
the announcement until remedial
procedure had.been set up.

In a statement issued after the
Mayor’s broadcast, Dr. Gideonse
accused Pearlstein of abusing the
college’s “deliberate policy of gen-
erous flexibility” toward war vet-
erans desiring to continue their ed-
ucation. Lack of.continuity of serv-
ice in many of the college depart-
ments, coupled with lack of expe-
rience with war veteran cases, he
declared, contributed to the failure
to detect Pearlstein’s disqualifica-
tion. The statement hinted that
low clerical salaries at the college,
resulting in loss of experienced
clerks, played a part. in the situa-
tion.

Commissioner Bromberger will
hold additional hearings, at which
he will question a student manager
of the team and others concerne¢
with the case.

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