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This week "Goodie" Knight yields to the law of political necessity. The august Los Angeles Times has announced that he is now a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1958. Few, perhaps, will remember that two months ago, faced with a gubernatorial primary battle with Senator William F. Knowland, Knight vowed to seek a second term as governor, regardless...
Contrary to newspaper reports, there was no throng of thousands waiting; only a straggling collection of city officials, Senator Knowland, and some curious night-life...
Back in Washington after campaigning for governor through his native California, Republican Minority Leader William Knowland last week added his voice to the growing legislative murmur promising action in Congress next session to restrict irresponsible and corrupt labor-union activity. Knowland's theme: unions must be made more "democratic...
...Knowland has reason to believe that he is on the right track. In liberal, freewheeling California, where Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight boasts heavy labor support, Big Bill has bluntly been running for the gubernatorial nomination on a right-to-work platform as well as a seven-point scheme for tightening of federal labor laws. Although he plans no federal right-to-work statute, Knowland's federal proposals are aimed at other specifics, e.g., restrictions on uses of union funds, guarantee of a secret ballot in union elections and strike votes...
Already Bill Knowland has plenty of company on Capitol Hill. Maryland's Republican Senator John M. Butler announced that he wants to make organized labor subject to existing antitrust laws. Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy, chairman of a labor subcommittee on remedial legislation, is at work directing a crew of experts who are examining a bookful of possibilities, such as tighter pension and welfare fund rules, strong laws defining conflict-of-interest deals, a federal commission similar to the Securities and Exchange Commission, that would protect the public interest against corrupt union activities just as SEC clamps down...