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Rich. In Portland a new nonunion worker pays $20 (helpers) to $30 (mechanics) as initiation fee, then $3 to $3.50 a month dues. In other cities fees and dues are almost as large. So, with perhaps 175,000 initiates since the war boom began, the union's take would...
Cheyfitz and his pals have enough disunity already, could hardly stand more. Besides scrapping with Alcoa and WLB (partly over a $1-a-day wage boost), the Die Casting local is fighting counter-organization drives by the powerful Aluminum Workers of America (which already controls nine Alcoa plants), and John...
"Mr. Judge." Wealthy Howard Smith ("Judge" to his cronies) has long campaigned against union labor as a monopoly. (For his Virginia dairymen he favors a virtual monopoly of the Washington milk market.) His name has appeared on no major legislation, but in 1938 he put through the House 17 amendments...
Last year florid-faced, old (70) Senator Clyde Martin Reed went back to his home town, Parsons, Kans., where he published the daily Sun. There he heard that men wanting work at the nearby Sunflower ordnance plant had first to join an A.F. of L. union, pay $39 to $53...
To WLB's way of thinking, maintenance of membership is a compromise: it merely compels workers already in a union to keep on paying dues or lose their jobs; no one has to join the union, as in a closed shop. The Government-and-labor majority thinks that unions...