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...Square Garden (capacity: 18,000) for a rally billed as dramatic evidence of Teamster solidarity. Again he whaled away at Kennedy ("the handsome young man who never knew what it was to work with his hands"), as well as at Arkansas' Teamster-investigating Democratic Senator John McClellan, the Landrum-Griffin bill, radio, TV, the press, etc. But the meeting was a dud: of the 150,000 Teamsters in the New York area, only 10,000 showed up. "Frankly," explained a Hoffa aide, "it was a disappointing turnout, but we didn't want to put on the muscle...
LABOR The real problem - how to keep Big Labor from damaging the economy by pushing up wages faster than productivity goes up - is likely to be pretty much ignored in 1960; nobody wants to antagonize labor leaders already annoyed about last year's Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill. To soothe labor's feelings, Democrats in Congress are planning to pass a bill upping the U.S. minimum wage from $1 to $1.25, or at least $1.10. Democrat Humphrey openly calls the Landrum-Griffin Act punitive. Republican Nix on openly calls it very constructive. RELIGION...
...vehemently, claims he has merely learned to be practical. "If the argument is over whether we should get 50,000 housing units or make a stand on 100,000 units and get nothing, then I'm for 50,000 units." To Morse, Humphrey's vote for the Landrum-Griffin labor reform bill was nothing less than heresy. But Humphrey has a retort proper: "You don't legislate in a vacuum. I was convinced that if we did not pass that labor bill we would have got a worse one next year." As a pragmatic politician, says Humphrey...
...Columbia (nine delegate votes). Although he is already entered in the Oregon primary and may well run in Wisconsin, Morse knows he has no chance for the Democratic nomination. But he is bitterly opposed to Candidates John Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey because of their votes last year for the Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill, hopes to pester them in the primaries, throw any delegate votes he might pick up into Adlai Stevenson's hope chest at the convention next July...
...hand, when there was actually something to be done, as in the question of a labor reform bill, Kennedy, in going back on the major principles and powers of his bill, hardly displayed great willingness "to serve them at the risk of incurring their monetary displeasure." It was representatives Landrum and Griffin, and those who voted for their bill despite the pressure of the unions, who showed this willingness...