Word: non-union
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...good. The Administration will have to produce results in the second session of the 81st Congress; and it will have to strengthen its labor bloc, without which the Fair Deal cannot remain in power. Last week, at the very beginning of the key drive to unseat Senator Taft, a non-union candidate defeated a UAM member in the Detroit mayoralty election--a disturbing start for the campaign against Taft, a campaign which could be the pivotal factor in pre-1952 politics...
...Board. Last week, six weeks after the Chicago publishers had won the strike (TIME, Sept. 26), the NLRB unanimously ruled that the "conditions of employment" were illegal. They were, said the board, a "bargaining strategy... to effect the exclusion of non-union men, squarely in conflict with the [Taft-Hartley] Act." The board ordered the union to stop discriminating against non-union men, and bargain in good faith...
...strike was 100 per cent effective among Lewis's miners, and there were some instances of violence at non-union mines which continued their operations. The anthracite welfare fund, administered separately, had to suspend payments on September 30, since its reserves were dwindling...
...black-scarred coal strips and tipples of 70 independent coal mines, owners and a scattering of non-union diggers worked warily, with loaded shotguns and rifles close at hand. A convoy of 15 loaded coal trucks was ambushed in hilly Centre County, attacked with rifle fire and stones before the drivers could rumble on to safety. At Grassflat, a $10,000 tipple of the Junedale Coal Co. was blown up by a 50-lb. charge of dynamite. One non-union mine owner drove off marauding strikers with a brace of .45 automatics; another was stabbed during an argument with U.M.W...
...Under the contract, the foreman of the composing room, who does the hiring, "shall be a union member"-a virtual guarantee that no non-union printers will be hired...