Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industrial-relations bill. I thought that the worker should have the right to a voluntary secret ballot, not just the trade union leaders--as the bill proposed. We got 103 members behind us, but were eventually defeated when the Labor Party backed the government. And Labor is the supposed friend of the workers...
...council also voted to include an anti-nuclear weapons referendum question on the ballot for city elections in November. Observers predicted the referendum might draw student voters to the polls...
Councilor Thomas Danehy, who voted present on the referendum's inclusion on the ballot, said. "If my neighbor was throwing halves of bricks at me. I'm not going to respond with Johnson's and Johnson's cotton balls...
...other referendum questions--one calling for an end to military aid to El Salvador, and the other giving preference to laid-off policemen and firefighters if the city does any rehiring--are already on the ballot...
...strange thing to tell an assembly that had just completed the most remarkable-and democratic-party congress in the history of the Communist bloc. Not only did the 1,955 delegates carry out a sweeping purge of a discredited bureaucracy, but they also adopted the unprecedented method of secret-ballot party elections with multiple candidacies and rewrote their statutes to increase the leadership's responsibility to the rank and file. As one of its last acts, the congress limited its top officials to two terms, or a maximum of ten years, a restriction unique in the Soviet bloc...