Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late as 1933, John Lewis was little more than the hard-boiled head of a hard-boiled union. Less than 25% of the nation's soft coal was dug under union contract. More than half of U.M.W.'s 300,000 membership probably failed to pay dues. Under the New Deal's NRA, U.M.W. suddenly gained 200,000 members which it has managed to keep, now represents 95% of the industry. On mine operators John Lewis riveted the "check-off"-that potent device whereby employers automatically deduct union dues from payrolls, turn the proceeds over to the union...
...Committee for Industrial Organization to disband under pain of excommunication. No one knows better than "Bill" Green that it takes two-thirds of a Federation convention to banish member unions, that the Committee for Industrial Organization represents more than a third of the entire A. F. of L. membership. Best current guess is that William Green will make his peace with John Lewis before the Tampa convention adjourns next November...
...life was assured when N. E. A.'s Acting Managing Director William W. Loomis, publisher of the La Grange (Ill.) Citizen, announced to 250 delegates at this year's convention in Poland Springs, Me. that necessary funds had been pledged by the membership to continue N. E.A.'s operations indefinitely...
...Recent ineffectiveness of the League has caused European statesmen to consider revamping the Covenant to (1 deny membership to dominions and protectorates, 2 return the South American mandates to Germany, 3 disband the League's international army, 4 revoke the League's power to use force in applying sanctions, 5 cancel the membership...
Assembled in Richmond, Va. last week for a five-day annual convention was the National Association of Credit Men, second biggest trade organization in the U. S. Its membership of 20,000 is exceeded only by that of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. In unity of spirit, however, NACM has the edge on the Chamber because its members to a man are wrapped up in one subject: the payment of bills. "Pep and Song Periods" opened each general NACM session. Executive Manager Henry Herman Heimann, a tall, slender Michigander, keynoted broadly on "The Next 40 Years...