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...standards, damned ''company unions" and even found time to adopt a resolution for the immediate release of Tom Mooney. The most direct attack on the job problem was a recommendation that local Guild negotiations with publishers include such well-recognized union items as the closed shop, the checkoff, dismissal notices, vacations and sick leaves with pay, 40 hr.-five day week, examination of publishers' books, and the right to strike...
...Nine Pennsylvania "captive" coal miners, scrubbed clean, hesitant, impressed but not overawed, were shown into the President's office last week. Some 20,000 of their colleagues were still on strike, in spite of the President's conference with their employers week before which guaranteed them the "checkoff" system an< union recognitions (TIME, Nov. 6). Before they quit striking, they wanted to be sure that the forthcoming election to select their representatives would be run on the square, that the operators would introduce no "ringers." General Johnson and President Roosevelt agreed to send National Labor Board representatives...
...industry. The steel men had agreed to give their miners the same treatment provided by commercial mines but without signing any contract. This arrangement the President approved, but still the insurgent miners stayed on strike (TIME, Oct. 9). They now demanded "recognition" of U. M. W. by introducing the "checkoff" system in the captive mines. By the check-off system the employer collects dues for the union by withholding them from the workers' pay envelopes. This the steel-masters declined to do lest it wedge the union idea into their non-union world. Led by red-headed Insurgent Martin...
...years union miners have been asking the operators to agree to a device whereby the employer deducts ("checks-off") from the employe's wages whatever dues or assessments the Union claims from its member, and hands them over directly to the Union treasury. The Mine Workers wanted the "checkoff" because it would keep their treasury full and save them some $200,000 per year now lost in nonpayment of dues or spent on collectors to round up delinquent mem- bers after payday. Operators had refused this demand because they did not wish to help strengthen financially an organization which...
Operators' Winning. In return for the "checkoff" and no wage cuts, Col. Inglis, for the operators, got into the new-contract union promises to "take active and affirmative steps to eliminate strikes and shutdowns in violation of this agreement; to eliminate group action designed to restrict output ... to cooperate with the operators for the promotion of efficiency and the production of an improved car of coal." An arbitration committee, composed of the twelve men who negotiated the new contract, was set up to deal with all work and wage disputes under the agreement, to gather facts by experts...