Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floors above Ernest Tener Weir's anti-union National Steel Corp.-the S. W. O. C. has since then put on the most efficient organizing campaign in the history of U. S. labor. In 18 months it 1) opened company towns to union organizers, 2) jacked the Amalgamated membership to 500,000 (according to its own claims), 3) obtained contracts from 445 steel companies, among them U. S. Steel. Only a handful of concerns, including Tom M. Girdler's Republic Steel Corp. and other embattled members of the "Little Steel" entente, have held out against...
...capacity will not assist their renewal on terms favorable to the union. From union figures it was estimated that 224,000 steel & allied workers have been laid off in the past few months, and that only a small fraction of those still employed are working full time. Union membership has sagged, as it always does in hard times, and dues are so hard to collect that the S. W. O. C., "for reasons of economy," has had to cut its force of organizers and officeworkers from 437 to 354 (including 75 part-time organizers). Though numerous resolutions were offered asking...
...Treasury did not consider bona fide. Mr. Mellon retorted that he had overpaid the Treasury some $139,000 and charged political persecution. A Pittsburgh grand jury refused to indict him. During the three years the case dragged along before the 15-man Board of Tax Appeals, eight changes in membership occurred and 10,350 pages of testimony were presented. Mr. Mellon, who spent five days on the stand in Washington in the spring...
...regular membership meeting yesterday, the Cambridge Union of University Teachers went on record as endorsing the stand of the Administration quoted in the CRIMSON on November...
...future, the membership of the Photo Club will not be restricted to Freshmen, Jameson L. Chassin '41, president of the club, revealed last night. The change was made at the suggestion of Dean Leighton...