After the decision of the leaders, after the breaking of the conference, the cloak makers who had settled gave fifteen per cent of their wages to support those standing out for the closed shop, and volunteered to give fifty per cent.
The National Association of Manufacturers saw to it that Congress and State Legislatures might not weaken the effect of court orders, injunctions and decisions on boycotts, closed shop, and related matters.
The conspiracy trials largely turned upon the "closed shop" and in these the shoemakers figured exclusively.
The operators, on their part, charged that the union was using every means for practically enforcing the closed shop, which was not granted in the understanding.
Towards them there is displayed the greatest toleration and none of the narrow spirit of the "closed shop.
Wherever the trade agreement provides for a closed shop, the union, through its proper committees and officers, assumes at least part of the responsibility of the discipline.
The Danbury Hatters' boycott was brought on in 1903 by the attempt of the Hatters' Union to make a closed shop of a manufacturing concern in Danbury, Connecticut.
The maxim "This is a white man's country" is a similar "closed shop" utterance.
The Puritans maintained a "closed shop" on religious lines.
Such a shop is called a closed shop, in distinction from an "open shop" in which non-union men may be employed in part or altogether.
Labor leaders throughout the struggle consistently denied any intention of forcing a closed shop.
The Corporation and subsidiaries are opposed to the “closed shop.
Steel company officials claimed that its real object was twofold--to force upon the industry the “closed shop,” and to overthrow the social scheme upon which the American Republic was grounded.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "closed shop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
