Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example, the A. F. of L. is the best type for a particular group of workmen, they will be a free to choose it. If the ad-called vertical union or organization of crafts within a single industry becomes the popular type, that, too, will be the workmen's affair. It will be a free choice...
...choose their spokesmen shall be free from coercion from any quarter. That word had to be spoken sooner or later. Up to now it meant that employers could not influence their men but it did not mean that the labor organizers were in any way bound to let workmen do their own thinking and choosing...
Unquestionably the labor organizer and the employer will have respective opportunities to argue their case for or against one type of union or another. But the Government makes it clear that it is not interested in any one type--that's the workmen's affair...
Rarely has there been a debate with official data on collective bargaining. The public has been led to believe that it involves merely the question of letting the workmen organize...
...motor companies have insisted they will recognize any labor organization which the workmen themselves set up. That is what the law requires. But who is to tell whether the workmen want one form of labor organization or another? It is as difficult to find the true will of a thousand workmen as it is the wish of a thousand voters in our large cities...