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A 3 page paper which examines how Yellow
Dog contracts were used to limit the union organizers and slow union growth.
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against workers joining unions. Today it is illegal, but several decades ago it was a very powerful tool in the fight against unions. The following paper examines the origins and
the role of the Yellow Dog Contract in fighting against the unions. The Yellow Dog Contract In first examining the Yellow Dog Contract we define the contract. The
Local 40 states that the Yellow Dog Contract was "An employer-employee contract, now illegal, by which an applicant for a job must agree not to be a member of a
labour union while employed." This approach to labor problems was primarily used in railroad issues. And, its origins relate to the railroad itself. As one author notes, "The Dog
was the Yellow Dog, a vernacular name for the Yazoo Delta Railroad" (Haymes, 2003). And, the contract was likely thus named because it appears as though the first real presence
of the contract was seen in relationship to this particular railroad and thus the railroad industry. Haymes indicates that "The Knights Of Labor Beginning as a small society of
garment workers in 1869,...evolved into a national organisation numbering 700,000 members.....Despite much resistance from employers and communities the Knights achieved some success, and in 1888 there were thirty three locals
in the state...But partly as a result of intensified employer resistance and partly the widespread use by employers of the yellow dog contract as a condition of employment, the Knights
lost membership and by 1900 were almost extinct as a national union.." With this contract "The employee is required to sign a card stating he is not a union member
and would not join a union as long as he worked for the company....The phrase in its most derogatory form meaning a coward or in union parlance a scab. ...the
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