Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their amendments would all but abolish NLRB's powers of discretion, and substitute in effect a set of rules for the elastic administration provided when NLRA was passed in 1935. Another would abolish the three-man NLRB, replace it with a five-man Federal Labor Board whose membership possibly would be more to A. F. of L.'s liking...
...Forbid NLRB to order set aside an existing contract with one union in favor of another merely because the membership has shifted unions (as has sometimes happened to the Federation's distress...
Student sympathy for the plight of the out-of-Housers was evidenced by an H.S.U. investigation f the problem early in 1938. Last spring a Freshman committee's recommendations that the associate membership plan be tried was rejected by the Housemasters. It was on the basis of a thorough Council investigation that they reversed their stand this week...
Organizer Joseph Stefani revealed last night that since the truce on March 15 between the University and 400 strike-hungry employees the union membership had swelled substantially. "As far as the cooks are concerned, we have automatically a closed shop." He said that enrollment in the waitresses' local was rapidly nearing 100 per cent of those on Harvard's payroll...
Donald Henderson's union claims 124,-750 members, reportedly has a dues-paying membership of about 15,000. S. T. F. U. claims 35,000, concedes that no more than 3,000 can pay dues at any one time. To figures like these, and to troubles like S. T. F. U.'s, A. F. of L. points as evidence that C. I. 0. should grow up and heal its sores before it tries to make peace on its own terms...