Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summer activities of the AVC got underway with a meeting of the executive committee yesterday at which time plans for the first general membership meeting on July 9 were mapped out. These will include social events as well as several lectures by outstanding speakers...
...York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, his eye on the governorship, went so far as to proclaim a municipal "Veto Day." Two former chairmen of the old War Labor Board, William H. Davis and George W. Taylor, said the bill was unworkable. The National Catholic Welfare Conference (membership: all U.S. Catholic bishops) condemned it as playing right into the hands of Communists. The Communists cried that the bill was a sellout to reactionaries...
...last week Max Brodsky, a trusted Flaxer staffman, arrived in Panama to help run U.P.W.A.'s membership drive. And there were reports that Communists were buying Panamanian citizenship so as to qualify for civil service jobs on locks and docks. In Washington, a Senate subcommittee headed by Minnesota's Ed Thye got ready to investigate the whole situation...
...Throw Them Out." With such a ready-made situation, Local 713's membership snowballed. Army officials, alarmed by U.P.W.A.'s growth and embarrassed by the old Jim Crow system, were ready to meet the union's demands, at least half way. By last week the union claimed these gains: 1) removal of the hateful gold and silver signs in public places; 2) an order admitting Panamanians to equal terms in civil service exams; 3) hourly wage hikes of 2? to 6?; 4) a 40-hour week; 5) improved vacation privileges; 6) more overtime...
Since there are not enough men in most of the Houses this summer to organize regular House teams and leagues, House uniforms will more than likely be filled by more than one player from other Houses of the Yard. At present no restrictions are being put on the membership of the organizing ball clubs...