Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shallow treatment of the Birth Control Referendum issue in Professor Karl Sax's recent letter leaves several misconceptions in the reader's mind...
Finally, the statement that "the great majority of married couples" in Massachusetts practice birth control invites two queries: IF they do, why bother trying to repeal this statute? IF they do, doesn't the failure of the last referendum prove that they do so against their consciences? Aloys A. Michel '50 Andrew F. Burghardt '49 Paul Flanagan '51 Carlos von Bertrab '51 Carl B. Schmitt...
Your editorial on the Massachusetts labor referenda reflects clear and honestly objective thought, but I feel you have missed the real implications of referendum no. 6. Those of us who are against this proposition do not base our opposition to a required secret ballot strike vote upon the vague charge that a union may be deprived of its strike weapon through apathy of its membership, but on the more solid ground that such a provision has been tried before in federal legislation and has failed...
...letter to the editors of all Boston newspapers, Professors Sumner Slichter, John Dunlop, James Healy, Douglas Brown, Charles Myers, and Saul Wallen, all labor relations experts and impartial arbitrators, made this observation about referendum no. 6: ". . . The practical effect of this provision would be to cause union members to arm their representatives with a strike vote before negotiations begin. As a result, negotiations will tend to be conducted in an atmosphere of hostility and tension. A similar provisions in the War Labor Disputes Act (Smith-Connally Act) tended to cause strikes rather than prevent them...
...danger of requiring a majority vote of the entire working unit to call a strike is that the vast body of workers may be too apathetic politically to bother to vote. Foes of the referendum argue that the union may thus be deprived of its strike mechanism...