Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Give any "substantial" group of employees the right to demand a new vote if they do not think the union truly represents them...
McFeely put down uprisings with a ruthless hand. His political control penetrated everywhere. City employees were terrorized. Dock workers were compelled to vote the right way or risk the wrath of A.F.L. union bosses. McFeely had few worries about outside political interference -though he despised Hudson County's notorious Boss Frank Hague, he maintained a working alliance with...
...Maggie discouraged strangers from coming up the mountain. They came down only to vote the straight Republican ticket, to pick up supplies and to get their old-age pension checks. The checks were one modern convenience to which Gil had no objection. With them, he and Maggie got along fine until the winter of 1946. Then they fell sick, almost froze to death, and were taken by a rescue party to a hospital at Suffern. When they got well, they were sent to the Rockland County poor farm...
This law outraged Canada's orthodox financiers, and the Liberal Government in Ottawa asked the Supreme Court of Canada whether the legislation was constitutional. Last week, by a 4-to-1 vote, the court ruled that Saskatchewan had trespassed on the Dominion's preserve-under the British North America Act, the right to regulate interest...
...closed shop, but permit the union shop* if a majority of the workers vote for it in a secret election...