Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote of 2,335 to 1,500; Secretary-Treasurer Julius Emspak and James J. Matles, the U.E.'s top organizer, rode back in with him. Then the triumphant triumvirate threw down a six-point ultimatum to Phil Murray. Its net: punish other C.I.O. unions for "raiding" U.E. membership ranks-or else...
...back up the threat, the well-controlled convention authorized the U.E. bosses to withhold membership payments from C.I.O. headquarters if Murray rejected the obviously unacceptable demands. As an added fillip, it approved a resolution indirectly accusing Murray's steelworkers of selling out labor by accepting the recommendations of President Truman's steel fact-finding board and abandoning first-round wage demands...
...Union's tough Joe Curran squared off again last week against his Communist rebels. But Joe, who kicked loose from the party line 2½ years ago, hardly got scratched. Delegates to the N.M.U.'s biennial convention amended the constitution to bar all Communists who apply for membership, just missed with a second amendment which would throw out the Reds already in the N.M.U...
Speaking last, Professor Brameld upheld the right of teachers, as citizens, to the full benefits of the Bill of Rights, no matter what their membership in legal political parties. "The Communist Party is legal in the United States until the Supreme Court decides otherwise," he declared. "And I should prefer to take the Court's word...
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