Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brochure urges readers to write their senators in support of Senate Bill S3409. The bill, introduced by Sen. John Tunney of California, would allow farm workers what the brochure calls "the right to a totally impartial, secret ballot to select the union of their choice...
...victorious candidate said that he was encouraged by the success of an advisory referendum on gun control which was on the ballot in Wellesley, Newton, Revere and Winthrop...
Anticipating Victory. On the other line of the ballot, Democrats confidently anticipated scoring the most overwhelming off-year victory since 1958. At present, 58 Senators, 248 Representatives and 32 Governors are Democrats. Even White House aides expect a net Republican loss of two or three Senate seats, at least 35 House seats and three or four statehouses. But Democratic strategists hope to do much better than that. They envision a net gain of perhaps six Senate seats, as many as 50 House seats and six governorships...
...ONLY THING that will give the workers the choice is officially supervised secret ballot elections. These have never been held for the farmworkers. We don't need to know of the evidence that Chavez has consistently prevented these elections. All we need to know is that, in the words of The New York Times, "the choice on which union, if any, ought to represent pickers of grapes and lettuce and is not for the Times to make, or Mr. Meany, or for housewives in supermarkets from New York to San Francisco. That choice should belong to those who work...
Therefore, there should be an end to the boycotts and there should be federally supervised secret ballot elections in the grape and lettuce fields of California and Arizona. The workers should be free to make the choice...