Kansas Voters

AFL-CIO Defeats Right-to-Work Campaigns in Five of Six States, Major Democratic Resistance Victory

1958-11-04 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

The AFL-CIO achieves a major victory in its confrontation with the National Right-to-Work Committee’s coordinated efforts to extend right-to-work laws to six additional states through ballot initiatives. Union organizing and voter mobilization efforts result in the defeat of right-to-work …

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Kansas Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Lecompton Constitution Despite Buchanan Bribery

1858-01-04 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Kansas voters rejected the fraudulent Lecompton Constitution by an overwhelming margin of 10,226 to 138 on January 4, 1858, in a referendum that exposed the pro-slavery document’s lack of popular support. The constitution had been drafted by a pro-slavery territorial legislature that consisted …

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