Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor leaders are already looking forward to the next general election five years away (barring disaster). Driven on by Herbert Morrison, Laborite M.P.s and Government officials, trade leaders are launching a great five-year education and membership recruiting program...
...Town Hall, company, union and city representatives bickered before 200 listeners. The thorniest issues: Yale & Towne's insistence on a return to the open shop; its refusal to offer any increase except one based on overtime. The 77-year-old Stamford plant had accepted a wartime maintenance of membership contract under protest. Now, labor leaders charged, the company was trying to "bust the union." (Rather than recognize a union, Yale & Towne closed its Detroit plant after a prolonged sit-down strike...
...last week's shooting in the León square was slight, gold-toothed José Valades, national organizing secretary of the Sinarquistas. He thought it would boost Sinarquista membership. In national political terms, the massacre would cost P.R.M.'s probable candidate, Miguel Alemán, some votes in the July presidential elections, gain some for ex-foreign minister Ezequiel Padilla, who is supported by Catholic rightists...
Under the temporary chairmanship of Kingman Brewster, Jr., the embryo group is answering questions about itself preliminary to a projected mass membership meeting here and the national committee's constitutional convention in the spring...
Finally the Governor showed up in person on Staten Island, where his administration is starting a $5 million project for converting Army barracks into temporary housing for veterans. Wearing his inevitable Homburg with the preciseness of a toy soldier, he accepted an honorary membership in the A.F. of L.'s United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, thereupon took six hammer strokes to drive the first nail into a two-by-four. The resulting picture looked for all the world like candidate-with-Indian or candidate-with-dead-fish, only a little better...