Word: ballot
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Massachusetts voters will pass judgement on three proposed items of labor legislation November 2. These would: 1) ban both the closed shop and the union shop in the Commonwealth; 2) require annual election of union officers by secret ballot, and 3) prohibit any strike not authorized by a vote of the majority of all members of the striking unit...
When the convention had adopted George Drew's platform, there was nothing left for it to do but adopt George Drew. On the first ballot Drew got 827 votes, to 311 for Diefenbaker, and 104 for earnest M.P. Donald Fleming, a rival from Drew's own Ontario bailiwick...
...unanimous vote, the University chapter condemned the Saltonstall Committee choice of a $60,000 memorial plaque in place of the center. It also asked directors of the Alumni Association and the Associated Harvard Clubs to allow an alumni a "democratic" choice by means of a mailed ballot...
...wealth of publicity of the Presidential campaign has obscured one of the most controversial and misrepresented issues in Massachusetts politics of the last decade. Out of the Birth Control Referendum, which will appear as question number four on November's ballot, has grown a bitter fight over separation of church and state...
...referendum the proposed legislation will appear once again on the ballot in November. It proposes that the law "which makes it an offense to advertise or give information as to the procurement of means for the prevention of pregnancy or conception shall not apply to treatment or prescription given to married women by registered physicians for the protection of life or health." It is, therefore, purely a permissive and actually a medical measure. Unfortunately it has been turned into a religious issue through the opposition of the Catholic Church...