Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case to the old Board of Mediation, to the Interstate Commerce Commission, to a Federal Court. First success came in 1934 when the Railway Labor Act was amended, outlawing company unions, guaranteeing collective bargaining and-at the behest of President Randolph-bringing porters within the scope of the law. Membership jumped, and the next year when the National Mediation Board held an election the Brotherhood beat a reorganized company union, 6,000 to 1,400. Subsequent conferences with Pullman bogged down, requiring intervention of the Mediation Board. Last year the Brotherhood was granted its international charter, and last month, after...
...Mankind United at $2.50 each, on which agents get a 75? commission. Last week Agent Ashwell claimed 18,000,000 followers whom he expects quickly to proselytize 2,000,000 more members. When the group totals 20,000,000, an international advertising campaign will quickly raise the total membership to 200,000,000 which I.I.U.R.A. needs before going into action. Tentative date for the start of the Millennium...
...bureau, helped promote Mankind United, now lectures six nights a week to goggle-eyed San Franciscans, including many a onetime Townsendite. As envisioned by Author Ashwell, if each buyer of Mankind United promptly sells four copies to other buyers, the organization will end its semi-final membership drive in 14 weeks...
When the final membership drive ends, the Ashwell theory is that the coordinated buying power of I.I.U.R.A.'s 200,000,000 members will make it possible for every-one in the world to work four hours a day, four days a week, eight months a year, and earn minimum pay of $3,000 a year, advancing to $30,000 by rapid salary raises. War and illiteracy will be extinct. Every family will have a $25,000 house. Pensions of $3,000 a year for oldsters will start at once. But none of I.I.U.R.A.'s benefits will...
...dispute between a Member of the League (i. e. China) and a State which is not a member of the League (i. e., Japan), or between States not members of the League, the State or States not members of the League shall be invited to accept the obligations of membership in the League...