Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boss of a big, independent St. Louis distribution union. Gibbons in 1949 sold out to the Teamsters, dipping into his union treasury-without informing the membership-to help buy off officers of the Teamster local who were discarded in the merger...
...Communist General Secretary Frank Haxell. And the opening session of the goth annual meeting of the T.U.C. last week found the Red electricians in a peculiarly vulnerable position: although 38-year-old E.T.U. Member Leslie Cannon had been elected a delegate to the congress by the union's membership, Frank Foulkes and "Squeaky" Haxell had refused to accredit him because he had quit the Communist Party in disgust over Russian repression of the Hungarian revolution. But when fiercely anti-Communist Labor M.P. Walter Padley jumped to the rostrum to demand a debate on this piece of party-lining highhandedness...
...hemisphere where better than 90% of the people in almost every mainland country are baptized Catholics, the number of Protestant converts has jumped into the millions. Bishop Barbieri estimates a Protestant church membership of 5,000,000, a total Protestant community of 10 million, including all children, teenagers and others who for one reason or another have not formally announced their Protestantism. Brazil alone, says the bishop, has a community of 4,000,000 Protestants. Even by Catholic computation, the figure last year was 4,825,000 for South America, and Catholics admit that the totals are growing by leaps...
This year, for the first time since World War II, the increase in U.S. church membership failed to keep pace with the population increase. The latest edition of the National Council of Churches Yearbook of American Churches, out this week, reports that church and synagogue enrollment rose only 0.9%. while the population increase is estimated at 1.7%. Last year's enrollment jump was 3%-nearly double that of the population rise...
...workers had gone out. Their reasons for striking were often thin-in one case a leaky water pipe. More important, the U.A.W. high command, which has been discouraging strikes-at least publicly-seemed to have a change of heart. It was not only doing little to get the membership back to work, but in some cases it condoned the wildcat strikes...