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...will split assignments, with Kennedy talking on the national campaigns and Eliot dissecting the state picture, including the referenda dealing with labor union regulation...
...Harvard Teachers Union (AFL) voted unanimous support last week to the campaign to defeat "anti-labor" referenda 5, 6, and 7 on the Massachusetts ballot. The proposed bills would ban the union shop, require a majority union vote before striking, and call for annual election of union officers...
Your editorial on the Massachusetts labor referenda reflects clear and honestly objective thought, but I feel you have missed the real implications of referendum no. 6. Those of us who are against this proposition do not base our opposition to a required secret ballot strike vote upon the vague charge that a union may be deprived of its strike weapon through apathy of its membership, but on the more solid ground that such a provision has been tried before in federal legislation and has failed...
...over-all issue above and beyond objections to the individual referenda remains the fact that no industrial state has passed such bills. Passage of any of the referenda in Massachusetts would provide incentive to enemies of unions and collective bargaining all over the nation to renew their efforts to destroy by legislation these valuable democratic institutions . . . . Roy Gootenberg '49 Executive Committee, Harvard Liberal Union
Massachusetts voters will determine the fate of the so-called 'anti-labor' measures on the ballot next November 2. The referenda call for abolition of the union and maintenance-of-membership shops, annual election of union officials, and new regulations for strike-voting...