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Welders protested loudly to the A.F. of L. convention in Seattle last October, but got nowhere. More recently, welders on shipbuilding jobs in the San Francisco Bay area, fed up, refused to pay dues to the Boilermakers. The Boilermakers, who had a closed-shop agreement, demanded that management fire the...
Club members pay one dollar a day for food while those not belonging to the organizations pay two. Membership dues are six dollars a year.
Total receipts of the three performances of Lorca's Shoemaker's Wife and Shaw's Man of Destiny were $606, including proceeds from program advertisements. And officers of the Club estimate that when final bills are paid and membership dues are collected the outgo will just meet the income.
The breakdown in negotiations resulted from a deadlock between the union and university officials over the question of a union shop. A statement from Yale officials said they made every effort to avoid a strike. "The university respects the rights of non-union employees just as much as it does...
But Mr. Ford found that he had agreed with his adversary too quickly. A.F. of L. complained that he had had no right to make a union-shop contract for all his plants, since NLRB elections had been held only at River Rouge and Lincoln. The Labor Board thereupon ordered...