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Last week the G.O.P.-Southern Democratic House coalition got behind sterner, identical bills filed by Georgia Democrat Phil Landrum and Michigan Republican Robert Griffin. In an advance nosecount, the coalition could only muster 209 votes for Landrum-Griffin-ten short of the 219 needed to win. Results:1) the President decided to take to TV to demand reform of labor inequities-"a national disgrace," and 2) Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, Chairman of the Rules Committee, stalled the mild Elliott bill just long enough so that the President could make his speech, and public reaction could pile up before floor debate...
...bills in Congress, the President summed up, the bill that best measured up to these needs was the Landrum-Griffin bill*-"a good start toward a real labor reform bill." He gave his point extra punch when he stressed his final-term nonpartisanship. "I don't come before you in any partisan sense-I am not a candidate for office." And he carefully stopped just short of the Write-Your-Congressman-Now appeal that would have weakened that impartiality. "It is my earnest hope," he said, "that Congress will be fully responsive to an overwhelming national demand. Thank...
Above the Battle. Just as the President's congressional advisers had expected, thousands of letters, telegrams, phone calls swamped the White House and Capitol Hill. Two hours after Ike signed off, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany took to the air to argue that the Landrum-Griffin bill was "a blunderbuss that would inflict grievous harm on all unions.'' And A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther, attending a conference of the United Auto Workers and the Machinists' Union, said that the President "has been taken in by the opponents of organized labor." The Landrum-Griffin bill, Reuther...
...Specifically, the Landrum-Griffin bill 1) bans picketing by one union where another union is recognized, also where the picketing union has not applied for a NLRB recognition election within the preceding 30 days; 2) extends Taft-Hartley's partial ban on secondary boycotts to railroad, airline, farm and domestic workers, outlaws threats of boycott; 3) authorizes states to handle no-man's-land disputes...
...Hands. In Manhattan, Theodore Grant, veteran of some 30 years behind bars, was charged at 91 with petty larceny. In Baton Rouge, La., Theodore Landrum, at 98, was recommended for pardon after serving half of a five-year prison stretch for theft...