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Zagri's job is to kill the labor-reform bill inspired by the Hoffa scandals, or at the least to eliminate the parts Hoffa does not like. Though not ready for action when the Kennedy-Ervin bill passed the Senate, Zagri made his hefty presence (6 ft., 216 lbs.) felt soon after the bill landed last April in the House Education and Labor Committee. By the time the committee got around last week to key votes, sore-boned members realized that Zagri had adapted for the lobbying craft the bullyboy methods that Teamsters made famous in trade unionism...
Little Black Book. The Teamster assault on the bill began with a grand gesture: invitations to all 435 House members to come, two dozen at a time, for breakfast at the Congressional Hotel. The host: Harold Gibbons, hard-boiled Hoffa deputy from St. Louis, who made his breakfasts politically tasty by flying in union leaders from the home regions of each day's new group of House guests. No fewer than 245 Congressmen heard Host Gibbons introduce Persuader Zagri as his own "community relations" expert from St. Louis. "We are not against legislation," said Zagri smoothly, "but this bill...
...followup, Zagri concentrated on the Labor Committee's 30 members, developed an easy ally in Chicago Democrat Roman Pucinski (A in the book) and half a dozen others. Zagri also appeared before the committee as an expert witness, and offered no fewer than 59 pages of bill-gutting amendments. Teamster-touting Democrat Jimmy Roosevelt (A) of California introduced the Zagri proposals as a substitute bill...
Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson won his first victory last week in his campaign to remove the 4¼% interest-rate ceiling on long-term Government bonds. The House Ways & Means Committee approved a bill to permit the President to ignore the ceiling when necessary to sell bonds. The committee tacked on an amendment expressing the "sense of Congress" that the Federal Reserve Board should expand the nation's credit supply by pegging the price of Government bonds. Cried Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr.: "This is an attack on the independence of the Federal Reserve Board. This...
...Treasury announced that it could ive with the bill, but the Fed's Martin urged the Treasury not to let Congress make a start at dictating the independent Fed's monetary policy. Martin pointed out that it would be very bad for the Government's credit if the financial community, here and abroad, got the idea that the U.S. had officially embarked on a soft-money policy. At week's end the Treasury was swinging around to Martin's stand, felt that taking the Metcalf amendment was worse than having no bill...