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That the convention, by endorsing the Executive Council's suspension of the C. I. O. unions, had made reconciliation even more remote was asserted by the Typographers' President Charles P. Howard, secretary of C. I. O. The A. F. of L., constitution reserves the power to suspend a member union by a two-thirds convention vote. The Executive Council thus acted extra-constitutionally when it suspended the insurgents, who were thereby deprived of right to cast the one-third plus of convention votes which they control...
...preferential hiring issue, 3,500 packers and trimmers walked out of the lettuce sheds. In the fields some 2,500 nonunionized Mexican and Filipino "stoop laborers" had to suspend operations also. In the autumn 95% of the nation's lettuce comes from Salinas. By last week, with both sides still in disagreement and the crop waiting in fields and sheds for shipment, this $11,000,000 agricultural industry seemed thoroughly paralyzed. A Growers-Shippers' Association official estimated that the strike was losing his friends and their idle employes...
...moving force of Seattle's Central Labor Council, a cordon of demonstrators from the American Federation of Teachers (see p. 35) and the Teamsters', Lumbermen's and Longshoremen's Unions tied the plant up tight. Publisher William Vaughn Tanner was thereupon obliged to ''suspend indefinitely" (TIME...
...this the Speaker asked a vote to suspend George Buchanan, but before division could take place Scot Campbell Stephen, M. P.. also of the Independent Labor Party, got up to say: "His Majesty's Government's supporters are cowardly robbers and murderers of the working class. The Minister of Labor, Mr. Ernest Brown, is a dirty, contemptible little rat who ought to be hounded from public life. The Home Secretary is a lying scoundrel, and I will not sit down and listen to him. The Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, is also a contemptible little...
Instead of calling a vote to suspend moderate Laborite Cocks for having committed the same offense as radical Independent Laborites Buchanan and Campbell Stephen, the Conservative occupant of the chair showed favor by merely chiding Mr. Cocks for using the word "liar." Taxed with favoritism, the Speaker sniffed: "I have to deal with cases as I find them." This touched off John McGovern, a third Scottish Independent Laborite famed for having once loudly abused King George (TIME...