Word: balloting
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Labor: Right-to-work proposals, on the ballot in California, Washington, Idaho, Kansas, Ohio and Colorado, set off the greatest Big-Labor registration drive in history. It was generally assumed that labor's get-out-the-vote efforts could only help Democrats. But by last week a good many labor leaders were not quite so sure. Right to work itself seemed to be holding its own in almost every state where it was a direct issue. And there was a real possibility that some of the voters urged to the polls by labor might themselves vote to curb labor...
Leland replied, "I had more important things to do than sit behind a ballot box. It's just that no one else was available to do it. I asked Larry Ekpebu to help, and he refused...
...third infraction was charged at Eliot House. "Unsigned propaganda sheets strongly attacking the NSA were available on the voting desk, strategically placed between the ballots and the ballot box," charged Anthony M. J. Lanyi '61, a member of Eliot House...
...protection of the union rank and file against the abuses of labor racketeers, the embezzlers, the professional goons, the Hoffas and the Becks." So saying, O'Neill and Bricker plumped unequivocally for a hotly debated Ohio right-to-work bill on next month's ballot. Explained a G.O.P. strategist: "We're taking a chance on it helping the party. But there are many crosscurrents to right-to-work and we know...
Right-to-work propositions are on the ballot in five states besides Ohio: California, Washington, Idaho, Colorado and Kansas. They have produced floods of new registrations; most of it is probably Democratic; in California, only one of each four of 457,000 new voters registered Republican. But angry questions at political rallies, letters to editors, earnest debate at many a saloon and street corner indicate that even union rank-and-filers-not to mention farmers and white-collar workers-are seriously disturbed over Big Labor's evident excesses...