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2) The "checkoff" system (by which the company deducts union dues from wages, hands the dues over to the union treasury).
¶ A.F. of L. reported an enrollment of 750,000 new members, claimed a total membership of more than five million. C.I.O. leaders said they had added 1,000,000 new dues-paying members, boosting total enrollment to five million, an all-time high.
Greatly gratified was Columnist Westbrook Pegler, whose furious finger-pointing had resulted in Bioff's jailing on the old pandering charge, and whose attacks had blown open another A.F. of L. union, the Building Service Employes. Ex-president of that union, George Scalise, is in Sing Sing for stealing...
The delegates seemed puzzled by the young women who handed out leaflets showing flag-draped coffins and the legend: "Will one of these bundles from Britain be your son?" When the delegates came to voting, they went just as far on foreign policy as Franklin Roosevelt had gone. They voted...
Clubs containing from 20 to 30 members from a class held a monopoly over the three upper classes at Princeton, and the average bill along Prospect Street is about $14. This sum, however, goes for dues as well as board, and the board figure alone probably amounts to about $9...