Word: af
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other pressure points are being hammered by unionists John L. Lowis and William Green. Lewis, always pretty much of a maverick, has been attacking Murray for dropping the fourth-round wage demands that the mineworkers are after. (They already have a non-contributory pension plan.) Green, AF of L head, is using the same reason to knock Murray's handling of the CIO--like Lewis, he doesn't think much of presidential fact-finding boards, and is using Murray's acceptance of the report as a club to attack...
...Union, a local of the American Federation of Teachers, AF of L, declared that the criterion for the government scholarships, as for faculties, should be "scholarly competence and promise," and not "political beliefs or affiliations...
...February, 1938, when maids were getting 42 cents an hour and the local AF of L was preparing to whip together a nice little University union, a handful of men and women employees decided to found an independent labor organization. AF of L leaders laughed, but in the ensuing court fight, the Labor Relations Board granted the 18 hardy souls legal recognition. From that moment on, the employees union has grown steadily...
Mulverhill explains that the AF of L still controls the dining halls and that the employee's union members are drawn from the maids, police officers, and employees of the University Press and bindery. Total number of members is well over...
...League for Reaction, opposed to Communists, the CIO, the AF of L, capital gains taxes, and additional antitrust laws, and for superiority of industry over labor, the reduction of taxes, a high tariff, ERP, aid to China, and property qualifications for voting, has been formed and will hold its first meeting within the next two weeks...