Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor will insist most strongly that the new law eliminate the ban on the closed shop, the union shop elections, the prohibition on political expenditures, the secondary boycott provision, and the use of the injunction in unfair labor practice cases...
Students who were on language probation could still participate in extra-curricular activities except for team athletics as long as their name wasn't used the Dean told the Council. Consequently, the measure was "unfair to athletics...
...this permanent amendment. The Committee says that since 1929 more than $135,000,000, around a third of the tax intake, has been poured into projects "more politically expedient" than roads. The result has been, the group says, a deterioration of Commonwealth roads. The Committee also claims it is unfair to ask a motorist who travels 20,000 miles a year for business purposes to pay twice as much in auto taxes to non-highway projects as the motorist who only rides 10,000 miles...
Mason's FTC colleagues take a dim view of his contention that FTC, instead of enforcing the antitrust laws, should "educate" business by telling trade associations how they should police their own houses. Mason argues tirelessly that it is "unfair" to prosecute one company while others are permitted to get away with the same thing. Grumbled one colleague: "I expect him to set that to music...
...that permitted the import of rye free of duty, if it were sold for feed. (Cargill got the Bureau of Customs to give it one year's time in which to show that this grain was used for feed.) This, said the court, gave Cargill an "unfair" advantage over other traders. But this, too, was self-preservation, and thus perfectly legal in the rye market...