Word: checkoffs
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...checkoff" system (by which the company deducts union dues from wages, hands the dues over to the union treasury...
...water with Messrs. O'Connor and Henkle since last March, what with cops roughing up negotiating committees, thugs beating up officers and shooting up headquarters. Manager Henkle said his company had been in business 65 years and proposed to continue without benefit of the closed shop and checkoff. The union thereupon gave Mr. Prince's representatives a choice of 1) a general strike in Armour plants, or 2) armistice pending talk about a written contract...
...labor injunctions. They asked that the Byrnes Act be amended to ban interstate transportation of "strike-makers" as well as strike breakers. They asked that a long list of strikes be declared illegal, including sitdown strikes, general strikes, strikes for a closed shop or the checkoff, strikes where grievances have not been presented in advance, strikes accompanied "by continuous and systematic acts of violence and intimidation," strikes in violation of contracts, strikes "to prevent the use of materials, equipment or services." Another N. A. M. thought: "Government should protect the right to engage in lawful strikes by lawful means...
...President Frank Purnell of Youngstown declined to attend in person but sent deputies to meet with Philip Murray and John Owens of the Steel Workers. Governor Davey proposed a compromise: let the companies sign a labor contract, and let the union promise not to demand the closed shop or checkoff. The meeting was adjourned without result but another was arranged for this week...
...Because we are convinced this contract would be merely the first step toward a later demand for the closed shop and the checkoff...