Trade union card votes are an example and are often much nearer to dictatorship than to democracy.
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But actually thecardvotecan be the most undemocratic thing under heaven.
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The vote taken was not acardvoteand the figures are not available.
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There are no similar conditions to this in public companies; and certainly trade unions know what to do—they have acardvote.
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Acardvotewas called for, and that completely consolidated it.
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It is certainly a great deal less undemocratic than that actively antidemocratic method of voting known as acardvote.
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One simple procedure which could be adopted is thecardvote.
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I am told that the people today who have that enormous control through thecardvoteare more or less respectable people.
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It was passed at their conference on acardvote, by 20,000 to 700.
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When the opportunity does come, the proceedings of the conference are governed by what is known as thecardvote.
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It is somewhat of the nature of thecardvotewhich has played such havoc in the trade unions.
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Therefore, a few large amalgamations at the centre on acardvote—on a tonnage vote—can decide great issues.
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The document that we are discussing was approved by acardvote, by 5,883,000 for, 122,000 against.
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Acardvoteof the electorate was recently taken.
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Thecardvoteis ostensibly a democratic thing.
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