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14(b) Under Fire: The one section of the Taft-Hartley Act which gives federal permission to the states to pass laws banning forced unionism is emerging as the prime, union target in the next Congress
Victory in Kansas, Washington: The victories by right to work forces in Kansas and Washington have heartened opponents of compulsion in all states, as pointed out above.
Texas Victory Seen: An attorney who represented 13 Santa Fe Railroad Employees in their suit to prevent discharge because of nonunion membership considers the Texas Supreme Court’s decision upholding the union shop contract as a complete victory for those who don’t belong to the union
Louisiana Hayride: The peculiar spectacle that found certain Louisiana union leaders arguing against compulsory unionism for agricultural workers – – in order to get legislators from rural and cane mill parishes to vote to repeal the Right to Work law for other workers seems to have backfired.
The New Farmer: It might be supposed that the average farmer would be only mildly interested in the right to work, issue, and that his approval of such a law would spring only from a general conviction that no man should be forced to subscribe to any private organization in order to earn a living.
PICKETING BANNED: ln a case that has escaped wide attention, but may have set an important precedent, a district judge in Salina, Kansas July 25 banned picketing that interferes with a man’s constitutional right to work.
Jewish MIT students assert their rights under Civil Rights Act by requesting religious exemptions from funding union, but union officials continue to demand dues payments
Two worker witnesses testify in support of National Right to Work Act; Right to Work enjoys vast majority support among Americans…
Performer’s petition to remove American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA) contains support from majority of employees at Buena Park location