1948-11-02-STATE-ELECTION-WARRANT

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QUESTION NO. 6 Do you approve of a law summarized below which wad disapproved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 82 in the affirmative and 126 in the negative and in the Senate by a vote of 13 in the YYE affirmative and 20 in the negative? NO I SUMMARY This measure requires that elections of officers of labor organizations shall be held at least annually. Sixty days' notice of a regular election and twenty days ' notice of an election to fill one or more vacancies are re- quired to be given by public announcement at a regular meeting, by notice in writing to each member, or in any other adequate menner. Candidates to be voted for must be nominated by a paper signed by ten members filed at least thirty days before a regular election and at least ten days before an election to fill a vacancy. The voting at such an election must be by secret written or printed ballot. Watchers appointed by nominating members and by union officers may be present during the voting and counting of ballots. Coercion and intimidation of members in connection with an election is prohibited, and violations of the provisions of the measure are made punishable by fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days or both. QUESTION NO. 7 Do you approve of a law summarized below which was disapproved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 95 in the affirmative and 110 in the negative and in the Senate by a vote of 14 in the [YES I affirmative and 18 in the negative? I NO I SUMMARY This measure prohibits the calling of a strike by a labor organization in any business or plant or unit thereof, except when authorized by the vote of the majority of all the members of the organization employed in the business, plant or unit thereof. Such authorization is to be expressed by a secret written or printed ballot at a meeting called for that purpose. The Labor Relations Commission is authorized to make rules for the con- duct of the voting. Within twenty-four hours after the voting the labor organization conducting it shall make a written report of the result to the commission, which shall be a permanent public record. If noreport is filed the vote taken shall be void and a person making a false report shall be guilty of perjury. Coercion and intimidation of members of a labor organization in con- nection with such voting is made a penal offense.