Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Reuther's superior, President Roland Jay Thomas of U. A. W.C. I. O., accused the corporation of bad faith. Said he: "General Motors knows that we speak for these workers. The strike vote . . . proved that.''* Why then did U. A. W.C. I. 0. object to an election being held? Because it would delay matters until the tool & die men, if they went on working, should finish their jobs and be laid...
...Walter Reuther's returns showed better than a 90% vote for the strike in all but one of the nine plants polled...
...President further flayed Congress for failing to vote money to run the District of Columbia. To the D. C. Commissioners, he wrote a letter directing them to incur debts for vital services (police, fire, water, health...
...said it would be, until toward the eleventh hour they produced an opinion from Attorney General Murphy stating that the power might legally rise again, after lapsing, should the Senate pass this money bill later on. Until a weary hour Senators debated this point, finally agreeing to vote on the bill this week...
...process of international law. This plan was beaten, but then Ohio's Republican Representative Vorys proposed keeping at least half a halter on Franklin Roosevelt, obliging him to embargo at least "lethal weapons." To the House leadership's shocked surprise, this proposal carried. But the vote was only 159 to 157 in committee-of-the-whole. Mr. Roosevelt's men confidently expected to beat it next day in the final voting of the whole House...