dispatches from the dissertating, II

I'm still trying to get a handle on the complicated dynamics between university administrators, military officers, and union leaders, let alone rank and file workers and armed services members during the University of Minnesota's multiple wartime strikes during the 1940s, the subject of the chapter I'm currently working on, but if you'd care for a glimpse of how awkward and complex these relationships were, here's one example, where military personnel berate university administrators for one aviation instructor's lack of access to the mimeograph machine due to picketing service workers.

The union seems to also have been in direct contact with the armed services leadership personnel, proposing to them how the military might conduct bargaining unit jobs with soldiers as scabs during the strike. This, I don't understand at all.