Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union, to be of value to the employees, must be a permanent organization, always ready to protect the interests of its members. If better working conditions are obtained by a union which has not secured closed shop, experience shows that membership drops off, because employees receive the benefits of the union's activity even though they do not belong. The union then ceases to be in a position to protect the employees' interests, and the employer is once more in a position to economize at their expense...
...Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious. The best element of business has long decided that honesty should govern competitive enterprises and the rule of caveat emptor should not be relied upon to reward fraud and deception...
Madrid and that the official Spanish representative in Berne is a Loyalist. Even though the Spanish Government has left Madrid, Dr. Egger remains to protect Swiss citizens still in that city...
...which required two riders to ride two horses each. Second night the U. S. riders held their lead with 16 faults, though they performed badly (nine faults) in the pair-jumping which was won by the Irish Free State. Third and final night the U. S. riders, out to protect their slim lead, were charged with twelve faults in the team jumping. The Canadian and Belgian teams tied with eight faults each, and Belgium was awarded first place on the flip of a coin. When the final scores were totaled. Canada had nosed out the U. S. by one point...
...United Automobile Workers shot back: "Mr. Knudsen's preference for craft unions might be explained by the fact that industrial unions seem to be a little too effective. . . . What evidence of responsibility are employers going to show to guarantee continuity of production to protect the income for their employes? Either the manufacturers must keep their workers on the payrolls or be charged with responsibility for putting them on the relief rolls...