Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Teamsters' Union (28,000 voters), by unanimous vote in a meeting. Reasons: Prohibition; labor injunctions...
...wage of $19 a week was. they said, scant enough; $17 was unthinkable. Recently the State Board of Conciliation & Arbitration, the Citizens Mediation Committee, decided to compromise. They proposed only a 5% wage cut. The New Bedford Manufacturers Association agreed. Then the textile unions rejected the proposal by a vote of 4 to 3. Still idle were 3,000,000 spindles, 50,000 looms. Mill workers continued to peddle fish. . . . Then the seven unions went to the polls again. Amid the yells of a blatant minority, they voted to accept the compromise. In the two leading unions the vote...
George Hughie, the leading philosopher of Friendship, put the whole thing in one of his characteristic nutshells last week. Said he: "I hain't a-goin' to vote fer neither one. I wouldn't vote fer that cereal man. An' if it takes two Smith brothers ter make a package o' cough drops, 'taint likely one's goin' to do much to run th' country...
...machinery. So vigorously has Governor Byrd carried on these beginnings that a contemplated bond issue has been avoided and Virginia has been said to have a "Mussolini." In supporting the Smith candidacy against the assault of Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Virginia's dry bourgeoisie, he has demanded a vote of confidence in the Byrd record...
...really is odd, this one-legged campaign. There is but a single figure [Smith] in it. You may hate him or you may love him, but it is because of Smith that you vote at all. A few thousands will vote for Hoover. Millions will vote against Smith. Millions will vote for Smith, too, but nobody is going to vote against Hoover. . . . During the whole campaign he [Hoover] has said nothing to hurt feelings and he has done nothing...