Word: billing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House boy, Democratic Floor Leader John McCormack of Massachusetts. McCormack (67) is ambitious to succeed Mr. Sam (77) as House Speaker, is wary of rising competition from Missouri's youthful (43) Richard Boiling, who has been Mr. Sam's quarterback on labor-bill strategy. McCormack covertly began to work for Meany. Good Democrats should never split on labor issues, he soothingly told the Rayburn loyalists on the committee, and "Don't follow the Speaker down this road to ruin." As some of the Rayburn Democrats swayed, McCormack threw open support to a skeleton substitute bill drawn...
...critical committee session, Arizona's Stewart Udall and New Jersey's Frank Thompson Jr. rallied the ten Rayburn Democrats behind the relatively adequate committee bill. They teamed themselves with Republicans, sometimes with union-bloc Democrats to kill off seven substitute bills offered in fast succession. In the final vote, Republican Boss Halleck provided six Republicans to side with the Rayburn Democrats (with still another Republican safetyman ready to switch if necessary) and vote out the committee bill...
Cold, Cold House. The victory was important because it ranged the traditionally pro-labor House committee against Big Labor, and held the line against a worthless substitute bill. But the committee bill itself was now out in the cold, cold House where most Republicans and conservative Democrats intend to try to toughen it in three principal areas...
RANK & FILE RIGHTS: The committee bill provides civil court injunctions for bullyboy union bosses who deprive members of voting rights, use other undemocratic procedures; the Senate's KennedyErvin bill provides for criminal penalties (up to $10,000 fine, one year in jail...
ORGANIZATIONAL PICKETING: The committee bill prohibits picketing of a company already organized by a bona fide union, or within nine months after an NLRB election, but does nothing about other forms of "blackmail picketings." The Administration wants to prohibit all picketing designed to blackmail an employer into bargaining with a union when his employees do not request an election...