Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Require all organizations which the Attorney General had determined were Communist or Communist fronts to register, report their finances, the names and addresses of their leaders and, in the case of Communist organizations, supply complete membership lists. (Maximum penalty for noncompliance: $5,000 fine and five years in prison...
...turn against him, and his right to hold his district office was challenged in the courts. After the Taft-Hartley law was passed, he was asked if he intended to resign and allow the union to comply with the law. "That decision," he replied, "is up to the membership of this union." Last week, Local 1102 made its decision. By a vote of 950-2, Bill Sentner-still hanging on to his district and international offices -was expelled for life from the local he organized...
...ever cast in an I.T.U. election, Randolph's "progressive" ticket won a 3-to-2 victory over the "independent" party headed by John R. Evans of Washington. Said Secretary-Treasurer Don Hurd: the vote was "not merely re-election of the incumbents, but is a general membership affirmation of the policies they pursued." That was notice to publishers not to throw away their Vari-Typers; the pursuit would continue...
Diagnosis. The trouble, Cleveland holds, is that the leading organization of management itself lacks proper management. Policies are set not by the membership but by a "self-perpetuating ... inner circle" of boards and committees. From 1933 to 1946, reports Cleveland, "125 corporations have held 63% of all directorships, 88% of executive committee membership . . . and 52% of the major executive offices. This group constitutes approximately 0.8% of current membership and has never exceeded...
Cure? What to do about it? First, says Cleveland, N.A.M. should have a free election of top officers, and let the membership play a bigger role. It might then adopt a code of ethics "with an eye to something more than short-run profits...