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...Truman legislation was wrapped up in the Lesinski bill, named after the House Labor Committee's tactless chairman, John Lesinski, a labor Congressman from Michigan since 1933. The Lesinski bill would 1) repeal the Taft-Hartley Act, 2) reinstate the Wagner Act with a few slightly stiffening changes. One of the changes was a wispy device for handling national emergency strikes by setting up presidential boards of inquiry and requiring a 30-day "cooling-off period...
Michigan's Republican Clare Hoffman took some personal fury to the floor. He waved a copy of the Kalamazoo Gazette, which quoted Michigan's Democratic John Lesinski as saying that "Hoffman is a pimp of Joe Stalin." Hoffman complained for 40 minutes before Lesinski got a word...
When he did, Hoffman was hardly mollified. What he had said, Lesinski explained, was merely that Hoffman "had no more authority than a rabbit" to act as a one-man committee to investigate labor trouble in Michigan. To this Lesinski had added: "That to me is what Mr. Hitler tried to do to the unions in Germany . . . And Mr. Hitler was a pimp of Joe Stalin, a prostitute...
...year-old Adolph J. Sabath, the Ways & Means Committee to North Carolina's Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, who last week celebrated his 85th birthday. In the place of New Jersey's Fred Hartley as chairman of the Labor Committee will be Michigan's liberal John Lesinski. Chairmanship of the Un-American Activities Committee will return to Georgia's John S. Wood, who, following past form, will probably let Mississippi's ranting John Rankin run the show...
Free For All. For two and a half hours last week, business in the House of Representatives stood still while Polish-American members denounced Russia on the 154th anniversary of the first Polish Constitution. Father Orlemanski drew a share of the abuse. Said Representative John Lesinski of Dearborn, Mich.: "Remembering Judas Iscariot ... I can't help wondering what price the priest is asking to betray the land of his forefathers, his Church and the loyal Americans of Polish descent...