Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exposures by the Senate's McClellan Committee had tarnished organized labor's repute, slowed recruitment of union members, and forced upon A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany the painful job of expelling the Teamsters, the Bakery Workers and the Laundry Workers, thereby reducing the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s membership...
...John McClellan and the labor-management rackets investigating committee. What brawny ex-Lumberman George Francis Heid, 35, was afraid of was not the power of the U.S. Government, as represented by the McClellan committee. It was the power of the Teamster Brotherhood, the U.S.'s biggest labor union (membership 1,500,000). Heid knew that testifying against Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa and his henchmen might bring ugly reprisals by Hoffa's ex-convict bullyboys. But with a pledge of protection by the committee. Heid huskily admitted that, under Teamster threats, he had perjured himself in 1956 by testifying...
Besides, Nasser offers another form of membership in his club, not so binding as Syria's merger with Egypt in the United Arab Republic, which has not worked well, as even Nasser admits. Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and eventually Jordan might be persuaded to join a looser association called the United Arab States, which now links the U.A.R. with the feudal Imam of Yemen, a ruler whose primitivism makes the sheiks of Saudi Arabia appear enlightened democrats by comparison.* By joining the U.A.S., other Arab rulers might hope to keep some internal autonomy and some hold on their fabulous...
...recent months, accreditation has come to seven member colleges (three of which, in effect, graduated out of the council upon reaching this milestone). For the rest of its 65 members, the C.A.S.C. offers shared experience, advice and an evangelistic optimism. Says Executive Secretary Alfred T. Hill of the council membership: "Harvard was like this 300 years ago." Some of the potential Harvards...
...rash of wildcat strikes, were symptomatic of the bitterness that has grown between automakers and the United Auto Workers in the two months that they have worked without contracts. Both sides are gearing for the final showdown. Last week the U.A.W. announced that it had secretly polled its membership, found more than 90% in favor of a strike-unless the companies submit to the union's wage-and-benefit demands. This week the U.A.W. executive board will meet in Detroit to set a strike deadline...