Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the 24 members of the play committee met last week in the theater to pick the principals, hundreds of Oberammergau's 4,600 people were gathered around a big blackboard outside, where the results of each secret ballot were chalked...
Members' Rights. Labor-boss coercion is outlawed, members get the unqualified right to vote in union elections (by secret ballot), may speak up against policies, get fair and public hearing in disciplinary procedures, sue in U.S. courts if justice is not provided under union procedure...
Elections. Secret elections, protected by poll watchers and ballot-count watchers, are required every three years for local union officers, every five years for national officers, by secret ballot among membership or at a convention composed of delegates chosen by secret ballot...
...voted for the Landrum-Griffin bill. "We wish to assure you." wrote Carey, "that we shall do all in our power to prove to the working men and women in your district that you have cast your lot against them and they should therefore take appropriate action at the ballot...
...hold office. As more than a thousand electors gathered in the huge, marble Nazi-built East Prussia Hall in West Berlin, it was clear that Christian Democratic ranks were solid. Even Liibke's rival. Socialist Candidate Carlo Schmid, 62, hoped Lubke would be elected on the first ballot to save everybody time and effort. Delegates in the humid hall wandered out to the lobby for sausages, beer and soft drinks as the clerk droned alphabetically through the list. Liibke made it on the second ballot...