Word: file
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alcorn knew what to do. Said he: "Mr. President, I strongly suggest you make a speech on Labor Day in which you recall the Congress and promise to keep the Congress in session until adequate labor-reform legislation is passed. The country wants it; the rank and file of labor wants it. It will help the country. And it certainly will help our party...
Vallejo's first strike, which he led as a rank-and-file rebel with no union post, forced the government to agree to union elections that swept Vallejo into office (TIME, Aug. 18). A second strike in February collapsed after ten hours, but most lines of the federal railway system paid off with a 16⅔% wage increase anyway. Fortnight ago Vallejo demanded the same raise plus fringe benefits for the 5,000 workers on the Mexico City-Veracruz line and the 8,000 on the Nogales-Guadalajara run. He pulled them out and ordered 60,000 other railroadmen...
...basic issue: while the cost of living has risen 40% in three years, wages have gone up only about half that much. The rank and file is tired of the cozy old system whereby union leaders cooperate with the government and in turn get cushy government jobs. Sample: Labor Confederation Chief Fidel Velázquez is also a Senator. Even if López Mateos' stern measures win this round, the show of worker loyalty behind Vallejo was a signal of more labor turmoil ahead...
Speaking on "Policies of the Democratic Party," the New York City politician said the party's strength rests on rank-and-file members in the nation's 125,000 election districts. Their views, he continued, "ultimately determine policy at the county, state, and national level...
Judge Theodore A. Glynn, Jr. gave the Leverett House junior a three-month suspended sentence for leaving the scene of an accident and failure to identify, a $50 fine for negligent driving, and placed the charge of driving the wrong way on a one-way street on file...