Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First effect of this paternal visitation was felt when Homer Martin withdrew from his welcoming speech a sharp reference to the sitdowns. He was chastened when the convention in a voice vote objected to three of his pet proposals: to make the conventions biennial rather than annual, to require a 50% vote of the membership (rather than of five locals from three different States) to call special conventions, to decrease the delegate representation of big locals, i.e., the Flint and West Detroit strongholds of Unity Lieutenants Robert Travis and Walter Reuther. Mr. Martin announced that an even more high-handed...
...Evidently unity was not the aim of the C. I. O. when, in violation of their own vote, they invaded Wisconsin to take possession of the movement in this State. Their every activity shouted treason to the world. . . The full drama of betrayal, as evidenced by events, exposes a treachery never before perpetrated in the annals of labor anywhere. Existing unions were disrupted by the C. I. O., funds were manipulated into C. I. O. channels wherever this could be accomplished...
...seem to know what their constituencies wanted, let alone the rank & file of U. S. teachers. Agitation for a referendum appeared, and a motion was made that the executive council conduct a referendum on C. I. O. affiliation "no sooner than Feb. 1, 1938." It was passed by a vote...
Because of the limitation by Corporation vote of the Freshman Class to around 1000, registration does not vary much from year to year, but early indications are that the size of the latest Class will be slightly less than that of any of the last five years. Largest on record was 1936, 1117 strong in its Freshman year...
...House Election Committee consists of six Democrats arid three Republicans. No surprise, therefore, was the Committee's vote last fortnight. 6-to-3 to unseat Jenks, give his seat to Roy. A surprise followed last week, a House vote rejected the Committee's decision. With 144 Democrats siding with Republicans, the House voted 231-10-130 to send the question back to Committee with unprecedented instructions: to take the individual testimony of 458 voters of the town of Newton, for 30 of the ballots which they cast have been lost, 34 ballots originally tallied for Jenks By actual...