Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27, Chairman of the Board of Overseers and Federal District Judge for Boston, has been offered membership in the U.S. delegation to the United Nations for the November session of the General Assembly...
...case at hand involved five Nebraska employees of the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1953 the five employees, all office workers, had flatly refused union membership, contending that such action would be a violation-of the right-to-work provision in a 1946 amendment to the state constitution. The Nebraska Supreme Court backed them up. The Railway Clerks and other unions affected carried the appeal to Washington, and the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Nebraska decision on the grounds that a Railway Labor Act amendment specifically permits companies and unions to negotiate union-shop agreements even if there...
...invalidating the right-to-work laws that are on the books in 18 states. Where Congress chooses to recognize them, as in the Taft-Hartley Act, they are still effective. But the decision made it clear that today's Supreme Court unanimously agrees that compulsory membership in a union shop does not violate any basic constitutional freedoms...
...trade fair in Cairo and was buying $28 million worth of Egypt's surplus cotton. Two days later, in an action likely to be followed by several other Arab-bloc countries, and likely to speed a showdown on Red China's bid for membership in the U.N. Assembly, Nasser's government extended diplomatic recognition to Peking. U.S. Ambassador Henry Byroade first learned what Nasser was up to when Nationalist China's ambassador, the dean of Cairo's diplomatic corps, informed him that he had been handed his walking papers. The same day, Egypt announced that...
Invitations to membership have been out for several months to any Negroes who want to join, but Carl Williams and his wife are the only ones so far to overcome their hesitation. "It is the happiest day of my life," said Mrs. Williams. "When you sense that faith and feel that Christian fellowship, all barriers disappear." Now Augustana Church hopes to draw many Negro neighbors. "Some members of the congregation are still wrestling with prejudice," says Pastor Seastrand, "but they are winning...