Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elections. Secret elections, protected by poll watchers and ballot-count watchers, are required every three years for local union officers, every five years for national officers, by secret ballot among membership or at a convention composed of delegates chosen by secret ballot...
Safeguards. Since they are positions of trust, union offices may not be occupied by Communists; ex-convicts (including those convicted of violating members' rights); leaders who take a loan bigger than $2,000 from union treasuries, embezzle union funds, or have conflicting business interests. Top penalty: $10,000, or one year in prison, or both...
...graduated state income tax, and that sent shudders of horror down Republican spines, and for that matter, down the spines of many of Michigan's industrial workers who are no strangers to income tax forms. As the tax squabble dragged on for months, even some Democrats and union people began to doubt the worth of Williams' plan. Even when the Governor had a chance to let the voters decide between an income tax and a 1% "use" tax, to be piled atop the existing 3% sales tax, he balked -possibly because polls showed people favoring...
Ashcan School. Crazier still were the neighbors, who complained that the bongos and other assorted beatnik activities were giving Venice a bad name. After police ruled only that Owner Matthews must have an entertainment license for the Gas House, the townspeople shuddered, got their Venice Civic Union to fight the licensing. The beatniks sent for the Civil Liberties Union, and after generously beautifying Venice's alleys by painting vivid abstractions on garbage cans, got ready for battle...
...this chorus of self-accusation, no voice carried so much weight as that of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. In a nationwide radio address, Adenauer offered deep expressions of regret to "the likable Polish people," admitted that "Hitler Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland and cruelly destroyed it." But today's Germany, he insisted, "is quite another Germany from that under Hitler ... It is therefore that I say from deep conviction that this Germany, the new Germany, will some day be a good neighbor of Poland...