Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Methodist bishops also pointed out that the emergency under which the about-to-expire Selective Service Act was made law in 1940 "has long since ceased to exist," and recommended "a careful re-study before taking any measures to enact a universal draft law, which seems to be unnecessary as well as ineffective...
...Methodist bishops also pointed out that the emergency under which the about-to-expire Selective Service Act was made law in 1940 "has long since ceased to exist," and recommended "a careful re-study before taking any measures to enact a universal draft law, which seems to be unnecessary as well as ineffective...
...Florida, which passed the first right-to-work law in 1943, the law has had little effect; it has no teeth and is largely disregarded. The building-trades unions, biggest in the state, do not protest the law simply because they fear that if.they get it revoked they might get a law that would hurt them. In four other states-South Carolina, North Dakota, Georgia and Arizona-the situation is much the same; the laws have had virtually no effect on union or labor relations. There are many ways to get around them. In Virginia unionists in the building trades...
While union leaders in Texas complain that the law has hurt them, they are hard put to find figures to prove it. Ed Burris, executive vice president of the Texas Manufacturers Association, cites union membership, which has grown from 110,500 before World War II to 400.000 today. He feels that the law has not inhibited the growth of unions or their functions as bargaining agents. Unionists charge that the law has had other bad effects. Jerry Holleman, head of the Texas A.F.L.-C.I.O., says the law has weakened union discipline, causing more wildcat strikes, and that the union must...
Perhaps the biggest effect of the laws has been to hamper organizing by weak unions. In Iowa, says Federation of Labor President Ray Mills, "it has become almost impossible to organize areas where workers are in an especially weak position." In Utah, which has probably the only right-to-work law with real teeth in it, unionists complain that it is hard to organize workers at all. In fact, there has not been an organizing strike or picket line for the last three years...