Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest single union, the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers, last week at Grand Rapids reluctantly voted to stand behind its no-strike pledge until Japan is beaten. But it was not a final decision; a majority of the 1,095,538 U.A.W. members must also agree, in a referendum to be taken within 90 days...
...against a flat repeal of the no-strike pledge. Next morning they voted the other way (against reaffirming the pledge), by a closer tally, 5,232-to-4,988. In complete confusion, the convention sent the whole matter back to committee. Out of committee came the referendum compromise...
Gentle Philip. The vote in favor of the no-strike pledge was a victory for U.A.W. and C.I.O. leaders, but the addition of the referendum showed how deeply American workers are split on the issue. The rank & file is obviously anxious to get back the right to strike, their strongest bargaining weapon, as soon as possible. And the rank-&-filers at the convention were well organized around the Briggs Detroit Local No. 212, which has had 33 wildcat strikes since the first of the year. The chief argument of the rank-&-filers was a paradox: if the union were allowed...
Everybody in Iceland knew that practically nobody in Iceland wanted to remain a vassal of the Dutch crown - particularly since old King Christian X, from Nazi-held Copenhagen, had stiffly told the Icelanders to mind their independent ways (TIME, May 15). The referendum on independence was a mere formality. In Reykjavik (the capital) alone, the vote...
Long before Pearl Harbor, Lausche was interventionist. His election in 1941 was virtually a Cleveland referendum on the war; and he soundly trounced rabid isolationist Congressman Martin Sweeney. Cleveland, under Lausche, has feared no Detroit riots. (His ticket last week included three Negro Councilmen.) As mayor, he has helped settle many a labor dispute, has had labor unions with him from the start. So are local G.O.P. businessmen: his Republican opponent had a hard time getting campaign finances...