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Though the Law does not hold the felony of a husband against his wife, the Church holds them of one flesh. Practical politics adds that they are also of one brain and therefore interchangeable upon a ballot...
...June President John E. Bassill, ex-top sergeant of Marines, had a questionnaire in the form of a secret ballot mailed to his 1,858 Hopewell employes. Of the 1,074 who returned the blanks only 140 favored a strike and 839 declared they were not union members. Ten days later the "strike" broke, on the ground that 13 union members had been discharged. But it was less a walk-out than a force-out. At 4 a. m. strikers scaled the yard fences, raided the plant, drove the night shift out with hardly a moment's grace to stop...
With the San Francisco general strike out of the way, the National Longshoremen's Board headed by Archbishop Hanna last week got down to its original business?settling the Longshoremen's strike. Its emissaries flew packages of ballots to Seattle, Portland, San Pedro and a dozen lesser ports, stood by supervising an election of the International Longshoremen's Association on the question of whether the union would agree to let the Board arbitrate the issues of the strike. Then the emissaries posted back by plane carrying the sealed ballot boxes...
...workers which had started all the trouble did not. Employers agreed to arbitrate all grievances with longshoremen and marine strikers. The National Longshoremen's Board headed by Archbishop Hanna proposed that the striking longshoremen, not only of San Francisco but of the whole Pacific Coast, vote by secret ballot on whether to accept arbitration. Harry Bridges, radical Australian strike leader, opposed the vote but he was overruled and the strikers went to the polls to decide the issue...
...union representation. Sooner or later it was evident that Miss Perkins was going to sit down with the steelmasters of the U. S.-Grace of Bethlehem, Taylor of U. S. Steel, Weir of Weirton, Girdler of Republic-and try her prowess as a labor peacemaker. Although a secret ballot of U. S. Steel's employes last week showed, according to Iron Age, that 95% of the company's employes opposed a strike, the bloodiness of all past steel strikes made the threat of such a walk-out still one of the most grievous prospects for the Administration...