August 3. Johns-Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, 800 employees; Building Service Employees Int'l Union. Following earlier survey we began in early August. Now have 362 workers signed up (of approx. 800) and we have departmental organizing committees formed. Three to nine cents per house increase given this month by management. BSEIU chartered Hospital Employee Union Local 491. Organizers: Hawkins, Wood, Lorden, and Singleton.

August 3. Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland,

Approx. 500 employees; Building Service Employees Int'l Union. No active organizing activities yet -- but 62 workers have secured membership cards and signed and mailed them in.

Organizers: Hawkins Wood, Lorden, Singleton.

August 3. Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, Approx. 350-400 employees; Building Service Employees Int'l Union. Hand-billed this hospital on one occasion and 34 membership cards returned through mail. Organizers: Hawkins, Wood, Lorden, Singleton.