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BLACKMAIL PICKETING. "Take a company in the average American town-your town. A union official comes into the office, presents the company with a proposed labor contract and demands that the company either sign or be picketed. The company refuses because its employees don't want to join that union . . . Now, what happens? The union official carries out the threat and puts a picket line outside the plant, to drive away customers, to cut off deliveries. In short, to force the employees into a union they do not want. I want that sort of thing stopped. So does America...
SECONDARY BOYCOTT. "Take another company-let us say a furniture manufacturer. Instead of picketing the furniture plant itself [the union officials] picket the stores which sell the furniture this plant manufactures ... to make the stores bring pressure on the furniture plant. How can anyone justify this kind of pressure against stores which are not involved in any dispute...
Outside the great U.S. Steel Corp. plant in Gary, Ind., the steelworkers union set up three tents so that strikers could sit down and watch TV when they got bored with marching in the picket line. "We may have to be here a spell," drawled one striker. "Might as well relax...
...only practical defense against the tormentor: it would go on with its work. Members voted 17-13 to keep in the bill most of the provisions Zagri opposed, even revised the hot-cargo section to make sure that it would control Teamsters without forcing legitimate strikers to go through picket lines. Scheduled for final committee vote this week-and near enough to the Senate version to have a good chance of becoming law-the labor reform bill was a stronger piece of legislation than it would have been without Zagri's efforts. By sending in his persuader, Hoffa gave...
...benefit boost every year, plus cost-of-living hikes. The U.S. aluminum industry is softer than steel; if management accedes to a neat compromise package-perhaps iof an hour-it might speed a settlement in steel. If not, the aluminum workers may soon join the Steelworkers on the picket line...