Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Seattle Guild's demand for the reinstatement of Lynch and Armstrong was refused. The Seattle Central Labor Council promptly announced that the Post-Intelligencer was "unfair to organized labor." The Guild ordered its membership out, claimed 40 newsmen from the Post-Intelligencer's staff of 68 answered the strike call. A picket line around the publishing plant was formed, aided by the redoubtable Teamsters', Loggers' and Longshoremen's unions. Careful to explain that they "were not on a sympathetic strike," the Post-Intelligencer's typographical men simply refused to pass through...
TIME's error consisted of confusing the A. M. A. Journal's circulation (92,600) with the A. M. A.'s full membership (103,000). To alert Dr. Fishbein, regrets...
...Frey, head of the A. F. of L.'s Metal Trades Department, who is stuffed with classic allusions and plumes himself on his polished delivery, was chosen to present the prosecution's case. He produced testimony that C. I. O. had encouraged industrial unions to raid their membership, introduced circulars and letters which showed that C. I. O. had been doing what all the world knew it had. Finally he gave a learned summation, accusing C. I. O. of being a "dual organization . . . engaged in defiant insurrection against the A. F. of L.," fortified his charge by reading...
...expel member unions only by a two-thirds vote of its membership. The C. I. O. unions have well over one-third the Federation's members. Postponing action to the Convention would therefore be equivalent to conceding victory to John L. Lewis. But if the Executive Council suspended the C. I. O. unions, they could not get into the Convention to vote and hence their ultimate expulsion would be virtually certain. Reasonably Mr. Dubinsky offered to promise on behalf of five C. I. O. unions that they would let the issue be decided at the Convention...
...Labor, he organized the Eastern Federation of Unemployed in 1934, last year formed his Workers Alliance as a means of consolidating local unemployed groups in a single national movement, focusing public attention on the discontent and despair of doletakers. The amalgamation in Washington last April, he claims, swelled the membership of his organization to 800,000 with chapters or affiliates in 43 states. Monthly dues are either 10? or 25?, depending on whether the Alliance member is on home relief or a WPA job. From this income the Alliance pays its three salaried officers $20 per week...