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Maybe I was a little too fast to jump on the "trash the Coop" bandwagon. I, who once so proudly declared my nonmembership in the Coop, now toy with the idea of joining. Mo Shepard over at Book Tech proclaimed that books are "Five percent of total education cost, and 80 percent of total education." How many classes do I take because of the syllabus, in spite of the professor's droning tone.... I believe. Maybe books are expensive, maybe they could shave off a few dollars here and there, but in the face of copyright lawsuits and the Harvard...
Since 1953, the 1,250,000 tenants of federal housing projects have been required to sign oaths of nonmembership in subversive organizations. The Congress attached this requirement to a federal housing appropriations bill, on the ground that taxpayers' dollars should not provide roofs for Communists or their friends. Some tenants, in Washington, Baltimore and New York, refused to sign the oath and were threatened with eviction. Among them were Doris and John Rudder, who occupy a two-bedroom apartment in Washington's Lincoln Heights project...
...suit, like half a dozen others filed by railroad employees around the U.S., is based mainly on Texas' "right to work" act, which states that nobody can be fired for membership or nonmembership in a union. The union shop, testified Santa Fe's Gurley, "does violence to my very deep-seated beliefs in personal liberty, freedom of choice, and the rights and dignity of the individual." In answer to union arguments, which implied that benefits such as seniority rights sprang from labor contracts, Gurley pointed out that the Santa Fe has had its own provisions for seniority since...
...half day meeting with representatives of all the big six steel companies and half a dozen smaller firms. Now, they were firmly against any form of union shop, as a matter of "principle." Said U.S. Steel's Vice President John A. Stephens: "In the U.S., membership or nonmembership in a union should be a matter of free choice with the individual." Phil Murray scoffed. He wanted to know how the companies could say they were standing on principle when they have union-shop agreements with other groups of employees, such as their coal miners, seamen and railroad workers...
...company stood firm, declaring it could never make union membership or nonmembership a condition of employment. The union struck. Work on $450,000,000 worth of cruisers, destroyers, tankers, freighters ceased. Federal's schedule, which had been way ahead, dropped drearily back day after day. To avoid further delay the company offered the yard to the Government to run as it liked. The President, well aware of Federal's splendid production record, hesitated. Conferences got nowhere. And after 16 days of idleness in the East Coast's fourth largest private shipyard, Mr. Roosevelt told the Navy...