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 the Brotherhood of Interborough Rapid Transit Employees and to sign an obligation the last paragraph of which reads as follows:

Another instance will illustrate the practice. The Pacific Coast Coal Company, shortly after severing relations with the United Mine Workers of America, organized its own "Bargaining Council." In the constitution of this council we find it expressly provided that:

and hence to an "enjoyment" of the "democratic opportunities" opened up by the company's Bargaining Council.

It is well known that the "yellow dog" contract is common thruout the bituminous mining fields and the metal industry, but most of the corporations forcing this form of slavery on their workers are of the super hard-boiled type not usually inclined to employ the hypocrisies of "employee representation" to gild the individual contract.

Those companies which combine industrial democracy with the "yellow dog" contract enforce an actual "closed shop" in favor of the company