Word: billing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SHELLEY BILL, sponsored by California Democrat John F. Shelley. Mildest of the three, it would merely require labor unions to open their books for inspection. It carried the faint blessing of A.F.L.-C.I.O. Chief George Meany, but not of Teamster Hoffa, who opposes reform of any kind...
...ELLIOTT BILL, chaperoned by Alabama Democrat Carl Elliott. A step beyond the Shelley bill, it imposed some restrictions on blackmail picketing and secondary boycotts, in addition to requiring financial disclosure. Closest to the Senate's Kennedy-Erwin Labor bill (TIME, May 4), it was supported by the Democratic House leadership under Speaker Sam Rayburn...
...LANDRUM-GRIFFIN BILL, jointly sponsored by Michigan Republican Robert P. Griffin and Georgia Democrat Phillip M. Landrum. More restrictive than the other bills, it imposed severe limitations on picketing and secondary boycotts, ordered labor leaders to respect rank-and-file rights under pain of jail sentences, extended state-court jurisdiction in labor disputes. The bill was backed by House Republicans and Southern conservatives, and got the nod of President Eisenhower...
Reversing the Trend. Fortnight ago, surveying his troops before the battle, G.O.P. Leader Charles Halleck knew he was in trouble in his effort to push across the Landrum-Griffin bill. Although his friend and coalition ally, Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, assured him that Southern conservatives were lined up solidly behind the bill, Halleck found that some 20 of his own Republicans, all from industrial areas, were prepared to go over the hill, vote for one of the weaker bills. Moreover, the trend was against Halleck: his rasping, hard-driving methods had caused resentment among the G.O.P. rank and file...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O., other hundreds of grey flanneled N.A.M. and U.S. Chamber of Commerce men) had swept into Washington to join the struggle. Some of the labor persuaders unwittingly played into Halleck's hands by trying to use blackjack tactics on Congressmen. "If you vote for the Landrum bill," one bakers' union man warned New York's liberal Republican John Lindsay, "we're going to have to work you over in 1960." Lindsay, outraged at such tactics, changed his nay decision to solid support for the Landrum-Griffin bill...