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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...
...desperation, Halleck persuaded the President to go on television with an eloquent and perfectly timed appeal for strong labor reform. That reversed the trend: last week, on the eve of the great debate, the House got its biggest pile of mail since Harry Truman sacked General MacArthur...
...weeks the President had been urged by Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and House G.O.P. Leader Charlie Halleck to do what he had never done in the six and a half years of his administration : throw his great public prestige into a raging congressional fight-this time into a long, long fight for labor reform with teeth. Last April the Senate passed the mild and much-amended Kennedy-Ervin bill that requires unions to make annual financial accounting, bars convicts from high union jobs, respects rank-and-file rights, but makes no real move to clean up abuses of boycott...
...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...
...trying to strengthen the bill, Halleck and his allies will gain strength from the same argument that Rayburn used on labor's Meany: the American people mean business about labor racketeering, and they want a tough bill. The only question between them is how tough...